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By JOHN GOOLRICK
Rappahannock News Special Writer
In Virginia, unlike most states, every election year is followed by another election year.
And though the gubernatorial sweepstakes of 1989 is still very nrt$ch afoot, I hope I will be forgiven if,*like some Las Vegas bookie settjng future book odds, I turn my attrition briefly to 1990.
Specifically, what might happen shpuld present Gov. Gerald Baliles decide to get the Democratic nomination and take on Republican indtimbent U.S. Senate John Warner. - It would certainly be Virginia’s most exciting and hard-fought senatorial contest since Sen. Warner, fallowing the tragic death in a plane dtash of candidate Richard Obenshain, took up the GOP mantle i®» 1978 and waged a pitch battle against Democrat Andrew P. Miller.
If I were laying odds at this moment, I would make Warner a 7-5 favorite to defeat Baliles. But the odds
sufficiently narrow to give Ba>
a real chance of victory if
ugh of the breaks went his way.
It is fashionable at the moment to
of the Governor’s recent self-ined
scars in his botched handling $fthe Supreme Court ruling holding
unconstitutional for states to (Kempt pensions of state and local t^piirees from state taxes while taxift the pensions of federal and militgfy
retirees. ,A Gov. Baliles compounded the jpf>blem of his administration’s failto
anticipate such a ruling by a
fetily called special legislative ses|in that saw him present a plan to
il with the situation that not even
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