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Lieutenant Governor L. Douglas Wilder badly needs to start the fall campaign season with some straight talk about his personal financial dealings.
Reports which have dogged Mr. Wilder since his campaign for the lieutenant governorship four years ago allude to the problems he had with the City of Richmond over a rental property he owned on Church Hill — the neighborhood where he grew up. The property sat vacant and dilapidated, and according to the neighbors, was a haven for rodents and vagrants.
It was cited twice for Housing Code violations. The citations were dropped in the first case because some repairs were made, and the second time after Mr. Wilder declared, during his 1986 campaign, that he no longer owned the property.
Two weeks ago, a story in the Washington Post reported Mr. Wilder had merely transferred the property to a trust administered by a close political ally, Richmond architect H. Louis Salomonsky. Though the non-disclosure is apparently not a violation of the law in effect at the time (which has since been amended), Mr. Wilder’s handling of the incident remains disturbing.
He confirmed the story after being questioned about the property by Post reporters, and added that he had not disclosed in 1986 that the property had been transferred to the trust rather than sold because nobody asked. However, a title transfer tax was paid which, according to the news account, buttressed the impression that the property was transferred from his ownership.
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