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acknowledged. “But we could double both of them and still not get much,” he maintained.
ERA And Abortion
Does he support passage of the Equal Rights Amendment?
“I will vote for it,” Guest stated.
Where does he stand on a measure to pipvide public funding through Medicaid for abortions in the case of incest, rape or gross fetal deformity, a bill passed last year by the General Assembly but vetoed by the Governor?
"I voted for it last year,” he responded. “It’s not a question of abortion or no abortion but rather should a person unable to afford a needed medical service available to those with money be denied that service?”
Virginia law on abortions meets guidelines set by the U. S. Supreme Court, Guest noted. “To deny services (for abortions in the case of rape, incest or gross fetal deformity) to women on Medicaid is economic prejudice and deprivation,” he maintained.
Guest is not supportive of another bill vetoed last session by Dalton which would have created a new holiday in honor of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King.
“I voted to put it on New Year’s Day since that’s an existing holiday but 1 voted against creating a new holiday...I think there are many native Virginians —from Jefferson and Monroe to George Washington Carver and Booker T. Washington—who don’t have a day set aside in their honor and should come first.”
Education Even with a decline in federal support for education. Guest supports continuance of Virginia’s Standards of Quality at their present level “with perhaps the halting of the downward change in average classroom size.” The Republican incumbent maintained that the General Assembly had erred in? adopting the- Standard ofi Quality (SOQ) that requires a steady decrease in average classroom size. “We didn’t realize the construction program we were forcing on localities...I’ts a good goal but we made a mistake in mandating it.”
Reviewing reasons behind SOQ mandates, Guest pointed to two court rulings—one from New Jersey and the second from Texas—which held that students from some areas of the states had been denied equal opportunity and protection because they’d received an inferior education in a below average school system.
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