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By JOHN GOOLRICK
Rappahannock New* Special Writer
A seasoned political leader once told me the bottom line of politics is who is assigned credit and who is assigned blame.
If you can successfully assign credit to yourself or your cause and blame to your opponent, then you’re a winner. But if the reverse is true, you lose.
With that in mind, it seems the current General Assembly now playing out in Richmond is not only one marked by bad manners and moods but a three or four-way effort to assign credit and blame.
The most heated battle has been an intra-party one between Gov. L. Doulgas Wilder and his Democratic supporters in the legislature'and a group of fellow Democrats who seek to soften the impact of Wilder’s draconian economic policies.
Gov. Wilder, a born-again fiscal conservative, has captured not only national attention but the admiration of many conservatives with his program to meet the state’s worst fiscal crisis in modern times.
He has eliminated some state agencies and proposed the elimination of some others, reduced the size of the state work force, threatened possible furloughs for some state employees, frozen spending for higher education and delayed salary increases for teachers and state employees.
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