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nial budget and insisting on a $200 million reserve fund in the event of more rainy days.
Yet all this talk of the governor forgetting his origins and his constituency ignores the fact that, throughout his political career, Doug Wilder has marched to his own tune.
Those who contrast the early months of the Baliles Administration and its feverish pace with the lowkey Wilder start forget that history may well recall Gov. Baliles more for his legacy of a massive budget crunch caused in party by the overly rosy revenue forecasts of some of his key advisors. While such criticism might ignore the reality of a nationwide economic slowdown, the crisis came about during the Baliles’ watch and was passed along to his successor.
Gov. Wilder has never been an easy politician for the pundits to predict. He was counted out early when he successfully ran for lieutenantgovernor; and at the beginning of his
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