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By JOHN GOOLRICK
Rappahannock News Special Write
Perhaps after six months of Wildermania the state’s political press corps may soon start finding other things to write about.
Not that the constant stream of stories about Gov. L. Douglas Wilder haven’t been absolutely necessary. No Virginia chief executive iever got such national attention or was as widely quoted and as closely scrutinized as the nation’s first black governor.
We have followed Gov. Wilder across the continent from New Hampshire to Iowa to California amid speculation he wants to be vice president in 1992. - We have read about his feuds with top legislative Democrats, watched the former liberal become a tough fiscal conservative, heard Wilder tout his ‘New Mainstream’ of the Democratic Party that is well to the center of Jesse Jackson’s Rainlow Coalition.
The media have informed us of gilder’s secret inaugural fund and the unpaid lawyer bills and the mystery trips aboard a state helicopter. We have even listened to gossip about a close friendship between Wilder and the estranged wife of the nation’s wealthiest man.
Wilder will, of course, stay very much in the news for at least the next few years as talk continues that he may be on his party’s national ticket two years hence. And unlike
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