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struck down his proposal that revenues from the state lottery be returned to local governments.
All of this sets the stage for this fall’s elections for all 100 seats in the House of Delegates and 40 in the State Senate.
Voters are not clearly focused on it yet, but the 1995 legislative elections will likely determine the direction Virginia takes for years to come.
If Republicans, who are three votes shy in both the House of Delegates and Senate, can take control of one or both of those chambers, then Allen will have a greatly strengthened hand in his efforts to cut taxes, government spending, give lottery monies to localities, establish charter schools and the like.
Should Republicans come up short of controlling either house, then Allen will undoubtedly be rewarded for his in-your-face attitude toward Democrats with the lamest duck status of any Governor in state history since key Democratic legislative leaders such as Hunter Andrews, Dick Cranwell, Tom Moss and others are itching to scuttle anything he proposes.
Thus, the 1995 elections become, in essence, a referendum on George Allen and his administration. Do the voters who overwhelmingly elected him in 1993 when he preached his message of limited government and frugality really want that, or did they
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