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By JOHN GOOLRICK
Rappahannock News Special Writer
With the exquisite timing and luck that has marked his political career, Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder is now ready to preach fiscal conservatism to Democrats across the nation.
Flooded with invitations to address groups from coast to coast, Gov. Wilder can say during his first 60 days in office he cut spending across the board to assure a balanced budget in a time of economic crisis, insisted on a reserve fund to guard against any future financial setbacks and even managed to reduce taxes.
For someone so often portrayed as a tax-and-spend liberal in the past, Gov. Wilder’s message to the national Democratic Party can be a credible one that unless it is willing to carry the torch of fiscal responsibility, it has no hope of regaining the White House in 1992.
Gov. Wilder emerged a big winner as the budget-dominated 1990 General Assembly session ended with the passage of a $26 billion biennial budget that is balanced but contains no major new funding for education, transportation, correc
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