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Address the issues
We’re happy to hear that the two candidates for Virginia’s governor, Lt. Gov. L. Douglas Wilder and former Attorney General J. Marshall Coleman, have finally agreed to debate.
It’s about time. The two have spent the summer slinging mud and personal attacks back and forth, most of the time resembling obnoxious schoolboys rather than candidates for the state’s highest office.
Labor Day traditionally marks the time when the fall political races begin in earnest, when the campaign machinery which has been idling through the summer shifts into high gear. We hope that it will also mark the end of the superficial bickering which has so far marred the gubernatorial campaign.
Virginia faces a multitude of problems, not the least of which are the transportation crisis in Northern Virginia and the skyrocketing tax rate faced by Rappahannock residents and their neighbors. The state’s next governor is going to have to offer real solutions to these problems. Platitudes and generalities won’t solve these needs.
We hope that Messrs. Wilder and Coleman, one of whom will assume the governorship in January, will give the people of Virginia some concrete proposals about how they intend to deal with the important questions they will face.
Mr. Wilder was correct in apologising for the conduct of the campaign — on both sides — thus far. We hope that it was not just another empty campaign gambit, and that the candidates will truly address the very real concerns of their would-be constituents.
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