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By JOHN GOOLRICK
The Virginia General Assembly is back in session and though there is more money to go around than in the past few years, that does not necessarily make everyone happy.
While it is bad to operate on the kind of shoestring budgets of recent years, whenever surpluses accumulate, lobbyists for various agencies and organization rush in like vultures hovering over road kill.
When representatives of key money committees took to the road recently for budget hearings, they were deluged at every location by folks who want more money for their pet causes and believe part of the millions in so called "surplus" funds should flow in their direction.
Though Governor George Allen suggested that part of the surplus should go back to taxpayers, there is little chance of that happening in the form he might intend. , This is a gubernatorial election year in Virginia and one of the ways the two major parties have of showing their devotion to various causes is to provide money for those causes.
Prospective Democratic gubernatorial nominee Lt. Gov. Don Beyer and likely GOP nominee Atty. Gen. Jim Gilmore have already tossed out a
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