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year for the House, the measure will come before the 1986 legislature. It should be noted that if so much as a word or punctuation mark is changed, the process must begin all over again.
After the resolution is cleared a second time by the lawmakers, it is then placed on the general election ballet the next November for approval or disapproval by the voters. If it passes muster at the ballot box, it will become a part of the Constitution on Jan. 1,1987.
The governor elected in November, 1989, would be the first to be able to take advantage of its reelection provision.
And so we get back to the gubernatorial race of this year.
Obviously neither Republican Wyatt B. Durrette nor Democrat Gerald L. Baliles will be in a position to seek re-election if he wins this year. But the loser might be strongly tempted to run again in 1989 and go for the double brass ring which will then be available.
Former Delegate and State Democratic Party Vice Chairman Richard Bagley of Newport News has all but announced that he is a candidate.
Similarly, the two lieutenant governor nominees, Democrat Doug Wilder and Republican John Chichester, would find their appetite for the top office whetted. The nominees for attorney general, Democrat Mary Sue Terry and Republican W.R. “Buster” O’Brien also would find a political future looking more attractive.
The most interesting possibility, however, may be Gov. Charles S. Robb. With his future uncertain after he leaves office in January, is it possible that he might again be available in 1989? With the re-election option available he might become modem Virginia’s first threeterm governor. If he did so, he would outpace both the famed “Extra Billy” Smith, and — with far greater satisfaction — his old rival, Godwin.
Also if Mary Sue Terry is successful in her bid for attorney general, she, too, would be in the cat-bird seat for the gubernatorial nomination four years from now. Thus she might not only be the state’s first woman governor, but the state’s first governor to be re-elected to a second term.
All this, of course, depends on the mood of the lawmakers in January and the mood of the voters in November 1986.
But at the moment the mood of the people of the commonwealth seems for it, and that usually — but not always — draws a sympathetic response from our representatives in the holy city.
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