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The issue will be settled by the time the 1993 gubernatorial election rolls around and yet no matter how it goes, the case could leave some political problems for Mary Sue Terry.
As the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for governor next time around, Ms. Terry may be called upon to explain the substantial amount of waffling she did on the issue in her role as attorney general. First she said she would have no trouble defending VMI’s all-male policy but then changed her mind, caving in to the protests of liberal elements within her party. Potential challengers to Ms. Terry will be able to cite this and other examples as evidence that the lady hardly qualifies as a profile in political courage.
For state Democrats understandly worried that the RobbWilder fiasco may undermine their fragile unity of recent years, good news came when a key fiscal officer said there might even be a small surplus in the state budget at the end of the fiscal year.
That reflected both some brightening of Virginia’s economic picture and the budgetary restraints imposed by Gov. Wilder and the Democratic majority in the General Assembly. ,
Yet the surplus, if any, will be small and the budget erisis will remain as a political issue this fall when all 140 seats in the legislature are up for election. Republicans, who are challenging a House of Delegates redistricting plan in court, are gearing up to run as many candidates as possible in hope of making further inroads.
And for Democrats, there may be another ticking time bomb out there that will eventually blow up in their faces.
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