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inly gets his feelings hurt when his idvice is repredieted at the polls vhich often happens and I fervently lope will be on this occasion.
Your listing of the real burning ssues facing the Rappahannock voters when choosing a Governor would >e ludicrous if it were not so miseading. To say that the burning issues between Coleman and Wilder ire incroaching development and the proposed western bypass is to im3Ute to others the same awful con:ems which apparently keep you iwake along with the very few imong us who speak and writs* so loringly of what I call the “Blue Mountain and Green Pastures” Syndrome, while positioning themselves personally to take full advantage of the :oming development they know is nevitable and fully expect, using evjry device available to them, includng a bastardized county taxation system which is steadily dragging this county into bankruptcy and raisng local tax rates by intolerable ncrements each year. Meanwhile they ignore the resulting plight of iverage taxpayers in the county whom the local lawmakers continue to treat with total unfairness.
The crucial issue in this coming election is the one that both John Marshall Coleman and Douglas Wilder say it is — the handling of the abortion issue in Virginia. Their positions regarding it are diametrically opposed for all to examine. Coleman wants to restrain it; Wilder wants to sit by and let it rip.
Coleman appeals to the more moral instincts of the electorate; Wilder is betting on their baser instincts and appeals to it, on this issue. Wilder’s pitch in, nightly: “don’t let the politicians decide this for you, decide it for yourself.”
Whether Wilder realizes it or not, he is preaching anarchy in Virginia of which he hopes to become Governor. Either the laws are obeyed or public anarchy will prevail. The unrest and public conflict over abortion is close to a state of anarchy in some states already.
I believe that it is this fact which impelled its supreme court to render its recent decision authorizing the several states to put their own houses in order.
Let us elect a Governor who, by character and record, will not shrink from this challenge and his duty.
ROBERT W. EASTHAM
Flint Hill
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