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ers,” said one Republican who is searching for candidates, “we can make them spend millions of dollars. It’s time we stopped giving free rides to any Democrats.”
That kind of talk guarantees that the 1991 legislative session, starting Jan. 9, will be marked by more interparty strife than has ever occurred in the past and that the open hostilities will be compounded by the redistj-icting process.
Said Del. Frank Hargrove of Hanover, co-chairman of the Joint Republican Legislative Caucus, “Our purpose will be to rally public support for a redistricting that is fair and open. I think if they (Democrats) don’t draft plans that conform with proper standards they can expect to defend those plans in court.”
And so begins what will be the subject of political intrigue and end-r less media speculation for a long time to come. Though the public may be less than enthralled, the end result will be a political roadmap that everyone must follow for the next decade and one that will probably lead Virginia into a new era of suburban-urban domination over rural interests.
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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