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tfinia hold the government jn }{ichmond in higher regard than the one is Washington.

Whatever, you can already feel the tension and the excitement mounting for the gubernatorial election year of 1993, even if you are at the periphery of such things as 1 have been since leaving journalism for another career. One can sense that we are in for a knock-down drag-out no-holds-barred year, if you will pardon the cliches, that may well be the most expensive statewide elections in history as well as a solid indicator on who is going to run the state governemnt for the rest of the 20th sentury.

If that seems a bit melodramatic, my feeling is that it may be now or never in the 1990s for the Republican Party of Virginia. The loser of

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