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By JOHN GOOLRICK
While Gov. L. Douglas Wilder earns frequent flier mileage and national media attention, some of his potential successors as Virginia governor see their names buried on the far inside pages of state papers.
Gov. Wilder so dominates state political life these days there are few stories about the subjects that don’t somehow involve him.
In the past week alone you could read about him speaking to a conference on black males in Washington, attending a dinner party for Clark Clifford, saying he never said he didn’t think a black majority congressional district should be created, denying he knew anything about a State Police investigation of Chuck Robb, hinting he might back a tax increase despite his no-new-taxes pledge and defending a forthcoming European trip when he will promote Virginia tobacco products.
With such a whirlwind of words and activity to cover, state political reporters barely have time to focus on anything else and give short shrift to all the undercurrents that are beginning to swirl with the approach of another gubernatorial election year in 1993.
Attorney General Mary Sue Terry, for example, came out of hibernation to say it was too early to talk about the race for governor and then proceeded to talk about it by saying, “I’m the attorney general but I don’t intend to be the eternal general..”
Nobody, of course, had been ex
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