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By JOHN GOOLRICK
Rappahannock News Special Writer
University of Virginia Professor Larry Sabato tells the painful truth. He admits he can afford to since he’s tenured in office and can’t be voted out.
Prof. Sabato, speaking at a public affairs lunch at Richmond’s Commonwealth Club about 10 days before the gubernatorial election, Nvas in top form as he predicted Democrat Doug Wilder will win unless a last-minute negative advertising blitz by Republican Marshall Coleman worked.
But perhaps his most instructive mid scathing comments came at the expense of John and Jane Q. Citizen, those ordinary men and women for whom elections are held in order to choose those who make crucial governmental decisions in their behalf. •; Prof. Sabato abhorred the tone of the gubernatorial campaign, saying it had been reduced to a simplistic two-note episode dwelling endlessly on abortion, crime and drugs. I Wilder, of course, sounded the abortion theme over and over, trying to back Coleman into a rigidly anti-choice comer. Coleman repeatedly came on as the crime fighter who would expand the death penalty and deal harshly with drug pushers. . Both men knew, said Sabato, t|iat the next governor, no matter who won, could not force through the General Assembly any significant changes in state statutes relating to abortion or the death penalty.
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