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they say promotes honest change in Virginia.
Delegate John C. Watkins, RChesterfield, who plans to run for speaker of the house if Republicans take control, detailed the specifics of the contract.
It includes creating safer neighborhoods, returning lottery profits to localities, providing more jobs with less wasteful spending on government, improving education, requiring parental notification for abortions, supporting welfare reform and establishing open and honest government.
Virginia, Lt. Gov. Beyer said, has been focusing on these initiatives for many years, especially education.
“It seems to me the only concrete items in today’s pledge is the failed idea of taking lottery profits from the state’s education budget and giving them to cities and counties,” he said. “Virginians, through the Gerteral Assembly, have already said our children are more important than local tax support.”
Democrats, he added, are tackling the real debate by boarding a school bus and touring Virginia communities. During their visits, Lt. Gov. Beyer said, Democrats offer Virginians specific initiatives.
Democrats are trying to sell their three-point education plan during a 17stop school bus tour through Virginia.
The community-based tour, embracing “Good Schools = Good Jobs,” targets improvements for Virginia’s schools, colleges and universities that emphasize providing security in schools, putting computers in classrooms and developing quality vocational programs.
Nevertheless, Sen. Kenneth W. Stolle, R-Virginia Beach, said Gov. George Allen promised change when he was elected in 1993 and now the
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