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departure, Ms. Dillard said little positive about Gov. Wilder’s first year and a half in office. “Some achievements have been made. But much more remains to be accomplished on behalf pf the people of the Commonwealth ... I hope that all future accomplishments of the administration will prove to be gains in which the people of Virginia can share,” she said.
It becomes obvious that Ms. Dillard was an idealistic fish out of water. Maybe she would have fitted in somewhere else in the administration, perhaps as a policy advisor or even in one of the departments where some of her own thoughts might be translated into action.
The trouble is that Ms. Dillard apparently envisioned a Wilder Administration as one that would go heavy on the social welfare agenda and propose new programs that would cost lots of new tax dollars. Her perspective, as Gov. Wilder should have known, is that of a liberal Democrat who views government as the best answer to such problems as poverty, joblessness, health care and many others.
But Gov. Wilder, faced with one of the worst fiscal crises in state history and with a philosophical outlook
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