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rings are put in place again the following year.
But the fact is the legislature is more and more transacting important business when it isn’t in session. The state is heading down a road that may lead to a full-time legislature, or at least one in which only people with lots and lots of time to devote to the job could serve.
During one recent week, there were meetings of some 20 legislative committees, subcommittees and study groups in Richmond and elsewhere. Legislators are" frequently called back to Richmond a day or two a week between sessions.
Besides Doug Wilder, the press could also discover this fall that there are elected officials who represent a place called the U.S. Congress and that the center of the political universe is not always Richmond. Unfortunately, the Virginia press corps has never done a good job of reporting on the state’s congressional delegation, possibly because Virginians have traditionally been far more interested in state government than federal matters.
Wildermania will continue, but it could be time to lower the intensity a bit and putting more focus on some other matters.
John Goolrick, a former political reporter, is now an aide to Seventh District Congressman D. French Slaughter Jr. Opinions expressed are his own.
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