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By JOHN GOOLRICK
Rappahannock New* Special Writer
Now that a new governor has taken office, any self-respecting Virginia political pundit must begin to speculate about the 1993 gubematorialelection.
If that seems a mite premature, it is merely symptomatic of the age in which we live. Once, not all that long ago, there was little speculation since the Byrd Organization had previously annointed a governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general at least four years in advance, and sometimes eight.
There were a few instances when someone annointed was “disannointed” because of a failure to hew closely enough to the philosophical line. But for the most part, state leaders moved through the chairs.
All that has changed, particularly when a Democratic political unknown named Donald S. Beyer could announce his long-shot candidacyfor lieutenant-governor with little of the party’s establishment behind him, get himself nominated and then elected.
Such a Cinderella story will give heart to others who may not currentlyhold elective office but still might harbor the seeds of ambition for a statewide post.
Beyer, young, photogenic and articulate, ran a highly effective media
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