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across loud and clear to me,* said Sen. Charles Waddell (DLoudoun/Fairfax), “is that people in Virginia want this tax repealed.
“I’m not going to stand in the way of this locomotive."
Smart move, says political analyst Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia.
“The Democrats in the end will have to yield to Gilmore. He got a 56 percent landslide, and one of the things I have learned over the years is that ' mandates matter,” Sabato said.
“The Democrats may not like it, and local officials may not like it — and for good reasons — but in the end, they will have to yield to that mandate.
“They will either do it in the upcoming session of the General Assembly voluntarily or they will do it involuntarily h as a result of the elections in 1999. It’s really that simple *
Even the Virginia
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