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advance of his decisions.
It appears that the game being played amounts to Gov. Wilder telling the Democratic majority in the legislature he is seeking to clean up the fiscal mess they made, while Democratic legislators are seeking cover in an election year both from the fallout of the current bad economic times and the wrath of various constituencies who feel aggrieved by budget cuts.
Last week, for instance, a number of state workers carried picket signs around the Capitol to protest Gov. Wilder’s suggestion that state workers be put on furloughs of up to 15 days to help save the state money.
W. Rodger Provo, a businessman who helped make Linwood Holton governor, thinks Republicans may be missing a golden chance to come back into their own after a series of electoral disasters in the 1980s.
His theory is that while Democratic leaders try to put all the blame for the state’s fiscal crisis on the current recession, the voters will be in a mood to assign personal blame come November and beyond.
If the GOP can make the case - and Mr. Provo thinks it might be made - that poor management on the part of Democratic administrations and the Democratic majority in the legislature contributed greatly to the state’s financial woes, he be
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