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By JOHN GOOLRICK
Nearly a year ago George Allen stood in Arctic weather on the steps of the State Capitol and delivered a strident speech that sounded more like campiagn rhetoric than an inaugural address.
Now when the General Assembly convenes for its odd year so-called “short” session, the Governor will dive into the second phase of his pledge to “take back Virginia” from the liberals and bureaucrats he thinks had increasingly controlled it under a dozen years of Democratic rule.
Phase one was the easy part when Allen proposed rigid policies to abolish parole for repeat violent offenders and to make life in Virginia much tougher for those intent bn breaking the law.
Though some complained that Men’s plan would require an enormously costly program to build new prisons to house offenders, Democrats realized that the crime* issue ^as instrumental in getting Allen elected. They could read-polls show - ing widespread support for such measures as three-strikes-andyou’re-out and had no politically viable way to put up spirited resistance to the new Governor on that issue. ! But for Allen the second time around puts up a horse of a different eolor as he proposes deep cuts in state spending and tax cuts simultaneously and attempts to argue that the cuts won’t have harmful impact
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