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Gilmore must
define vision
In the early 1980s, while I was still reporting Virginia politics day to day, the state legislature passed a bizarre redistricting plan that would have put my Fredericksburg area in a multi-member House of Delegates district that also included a part of Henrico County.
Shortly afterward I was visited by a young Henrico attorney named Jim Gilmore who was mulling over a run for the House. Gilmore, now Governor-elect of Virginia, was a serious minded individual thoroughly conversant with major issues facing the state at that time.
As it turned out, the courts tossed out the redistricting plan and ordered single-member districts. But over the years I kept in touch with Gilmore and saw him from time to time at Republican functions.
Observing him when he was a candidate for Virginia attorney general, during his tenure in that office and in his successful run for governor, I got the impression he has changed little from the friendly and intelligent individual I first met more than 15 years ago.
He is a man who arose from working class origins to attain success as a lawyer, a commonwealth’s attorney and attorney general.
Now as Governor George Allen departs the scene — at least for the time being — Governor Gilmore will face the
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