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Northern Virginia Transportation District and the use of pledge bonds, and has consistently opposed, an increase in sales tax for anything including transportation.
Coleman said he favored a Northern Virginia Regional Transportation Authority that would raise and spend monies for roads in the upper part of the state.
Posing two of the questions that Coleman had planned to ask at Virginia Beach, Susan King of WJLA TV-7 asked Wilder about his “slum” property on Richmond’s Church Hill and his acceptance of money for speeches during 1986.
Wilder called the Richmond property, which he no longer owns, “the longest running political nonstory” in Virginia’s political history. The property was never found guilty of any housing violations, he said. Wilder then admitted that accepting speech monies was wrong and that he no longer participated in ^uch practices.
Wilder was also questioned by Tom Grubisich of the Connection Newspaper Group about the infamous U.S. Sen. Charles S. Robb letters written during Wilder’s 1985 campaign that raised questions about his credibility.
“Chuck Robb is doing everything he can to get Doug Wilder elected to governor,” said Wilder who quoted the former Democratic governor as saying, ‘On the very really impor
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