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people the right to choose.”
He said that residents of Rappahannock, Warren and Fauquier might not see much reason to vote for the bonds—they do pay for gasoline but they will not get any new roads out of the measure.
, Del. Wood found himself with another self-contradiction during the session: he sponsored a bill that he was long opposed to, the health-care provider tax, or the so-called Sick Tax. A pharmacist, Del. Wood said that his primary concern was that pharmacies be dropped from those on line to be taxed, because they generally have a thin margin of profit.
Gov. Wilder lobbied the freshman delegate himself on the matter, telling him personally that the pharmacies had been dropped, and asking him to co-sponsor the bill.
Why would he co-sponsor something he didn’t want to see approved? “I’ve been asking myself the same question. Why would the governor want a little old delegate from Warrenton on the health provider bill? I’d already told him I wasn’t going to vote for it.”
He said it was “uncommon, but it does happen” that a legislator would co-sponsor something he later voted against.
“They did a lot of lobbying and put [me under] a lot of pressure. . . . In hindsight I would not have been a patron,” he said.
He failed to put Fauquier or Rappahannock into any impact fee legis
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