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wooed by Henry Howell in an earlier day.
For example, he’s suggested that if the pensions of both state and federal and military retirees are exempted from Virginia taxes, those who get pensions from private sector employers should also be granted some relief. That argument is bound to win him many favorable points though legislators on money committees flinch at the thought of the tremendous revenue loss it would entail.
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Mr. Wilder has led somewhat of a charmed political life, as witness the 1985 race when the huge majorities of Gerald Baliles and Mary Sue Terry helped him to a narrow victory over Mr. Chichester. Even then, he might have lost if heavy rains causing floods hadn’t fallen on election day on some of the strongest Republican areas in Virginia.
One might even say that Mr. Wilder has been protected by some of the Teflon Ronald Reagan wore in his White House days, but failed to
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