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For one who’s running a positive campaign for lieutenant governor, Democratic candidate L. Douglas Wilder has been on the defensive ever since winning his party’s nomination in June.
Initailly, the “naysayers” within his own party questioned whether the outspoken Richmond lawyer would be a liability to the Democratic headed by gubernatorial candidate and former attorney general Gerald L. Baliles.
Some news reports during the primary season suggested Wilder, the first black candidate nominated by a major party to run for statewide office since Reconstruction, was not the first choice of Gov. Charles S. Robb. The governor later would, however, throw his support behind the 54-year-old senator.
But as intra-party doubts subsided, Wilder encountered hostile attacks on his voting record by his Republican opponent, state Sen. John Chichester of Stafford County.
Chichester accuses him of having the “criminal’s interests at heart,” being “the softest man in the Virginia Senate on drunk driving and capital punishment” and of supporting collective bargaining for public employees.
Wilder, 54, dismisses the charges of being soft on criminals, noting the state Fraternal Order of Police has ^endorsed his candididacy. He also says he’s always opposed the concept of collective bargaining for public employees despite his opponent’s claims to the contrary.
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