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Elections In Air Efforts to keep the workload down may be hampered in the 1981 session by the imminence of elections this fall for the House of Delegates and three statewide offices. Democrats, who control both houses of the General Assembly, are likely to remember the active role R«p«bUtm"Owv-.- Jottn N. Dalton took in ttttempfin^'Wr send Democrats to defeat in the 1979 elections, making them and their Republican opponents eager to win political points in the legislative session which promises high visibility to public and media.
Already both parties are organizing extensively for the upcoming campaign for governor in which Democratic Lt. Gov. Charles Robb is expected to take on Attorney General J. Marshall Coleman 'ji a spirited contest.
Despite the prospect of elections—considered especially important to the Democrats, who have fared poorly in statewide races for more than a decade —legislators from both parties have said the issues facing the state will get the kind of bipartisan approach they need to be dealt with effectively.
The 100 members of the House and 40 Senators will devote many of their energies in the first week of the session to legislation carried
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