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Charlottesville area. Governor Allen has always cheerfully admitted to being a “tightwad” who hates to see anything go to waste and he takes the same attitude when it comes to taxpayers’ money.
He gave me a bit of a chance to do some lobbying for inclusion of money in his budget for restoration of Ferry Farm in Stafford County, George Washington’s boyhood home and the site of the legendary coin toss across the Rappahannock and the chopping down of the cherry tree. Seventy-five years ago my grandfather had believed the property could become a tourist attraction of national significance, but up to now it hasn’t happened.
The governor said he realized the property’s historic importance and said after dinner that very evening he was meeting with some of his budget people to work again on his final budget. But he also noted that while he could put many things in the budget before walking away and leaving the decisions to others, he felt a responsibility to the people to maintain fiscal prudence.
With a portrait of his hero, Thomas Jefferson, hanging behind the governor, his statement came as no surprise to me since Allen’s basic credo is the one espoused by Jefferson — namely, “that government is best that governs least.”
That very day in Virginia Beach Allen had given a
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