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This if passed would have nullified part of Virginia’s Right to Work Law.
In 1989, according to the press, he refused to support Governor Baliles’s use of state police where union threats of violence against workers seeking to enter the coal mines. He said the Governor should be neutral. “I won’t have to send in anybody to do anything.” (Winchester Star, Aug. 3)
Later, “perhaps prodded by reportedly angry Governor Baliles, Wilder during the week of August 3rd reversed himself, but his first comments were those of the real Wilder. He gives lip service to Virginia’s Right to Work Law, because he feels it is politically desirable to do so. The real Douglas Wilder is a Democrat of the Mondale-DukakisJesse Jackson-Ted Kennedy political mold. Such an individual would be unlikely to enforce Viginina’s Right to Work statue.” (IBID).
Wilder has almost unprecedented influence in the Democratic Party, as illustrated by his vetoing Owen Pickett’s bid for Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, indicating that if Pickett didn’t withdraw,
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