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By JOHN GOOLRICK
As Yogi Berra or someone once said, the opera isn’t over until the fat lady sings.
Which means that Virginia’s redistricting saga is far from over as I write this column. And that means by the time you read this the present situation may well have changed.
When the General Assembly got through its recent congressional redistricting efforts, political analyst Larry Sabato of the Univeristy of Virginia gave it a low mark and said it appeared that a bunch of kindergarten children had drawn the redistricting map with their crayons.
Indeed, the Richmond area, which has always been k6pt reasonably compact in congressional redistricting, came out chopped to shreds. Parts of the city and surrounding environs were put in the 1st, 3rd, 4th and 7th congressional districts.
But word is out that Gov. Doulgas Wilder, who grew up in Richmond and represented the city in the State Senate, may do something to repair the damage. If that is the case, the legislature will have to deal with his amendments when it reconvenes Dec. 9.
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