Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 5 · column 3 of 7 · from the scan, no model involved
Del. Wood
Continued from page A-1
[for notification] put on the physicians,” he said. “Maybe I’m looking for a bill that’s too perfect. I don’t know.”
He said parental permission for abortion would even be acceptable to him, but the mechanics of the bill would need to be right for him to support it.
Del. Wood signed a no-new-taxes pledge during the campaign, but voted to put a two-cents-a-gallon referendum before the voters in November to finance $442 million in transportation improvements. He said that by making the voters choose he was not actually endorsing a tax increase. In fact, he said, he himself probably will vote against the referendum.
He had supported a set of bonds proposed by powerful Finance Committee Chairman Del. Richard Cranwell totalling $1.2 billion. That proposal was passed over by the General Assembly, which opted instead to put forward a series of bond referendums that together total almost $1 billion.
“I supported it but I held my nose when I did it,” he said. “I said at the time I’ll probably vote against the proposal. . . . I’m representing the whole area, and I’m going to give
91.8%