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By JOHN GOOLRICK The best part about being a newspaper columnist is that you can dispense totally unsolicited advice. For example, no one running for statewide or regional office has really asked me my opinions about what they should be doing and saying. Or at least none has offered to pay me for such >» advice. Those who have asked were probably trying to be polite more than anything else. Yet even though unasked, I refuse to stay silent. And so here, just a few days after Labor Day with less than two months to the election, are some of my « words of wisdom to those who are seeking favorable * decisions from the voters of Virginia. First, for Mary Sue Terry, Democratic nominee for governor: back in the spring, you had a huge lead in fund-raising and in the polls. So during the summer months you could afford to sit on your lead and !’ let your opponent play catch-up football. Unfortunately, for you, your opponent has connected on some > long passes and has gone from 23 points down to just six points down. That means you can no longer afford the luxury ' of relying on media advertising while staying above . the fray in Richmond. In the next 60 days you have to press the flesh and work the crowds in Grundy and t Farmville and Warrenton and Falls Church and Passapatanzy and countless other places in this big and : diverse state.
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