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austerity caused Wilder to tell reporters, “We have been vindicated in our approach." By that, of course, he meant the meat-ax budget chops of his first few years that caused cries of anguish from teachers, state workers and many other interest groups.
The surplus is welcome news for Democrats in a year when the statewide offices of governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general hang in the balance. The party’s standard bearers can claim that the willingness of Wilder and the Democratic controlled legislature to bite the fiscal bullet pulled Virginia through its worst economic misery since the Depression.
Yet Republicans might make a case of their own by arguing that while Wilder’s insistence on fiscal prudence and though budget policies were necessary medicine, the do
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