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...Democratic side, Gov. Bill Clinton (D-Ark.) and the "mainstream" Democratic Leadership Council advocate almost identical reforms. Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder talks about a "fiscal conservatism" calling for similar spending cuts under the rubric of a "New Mainstream." And it seems that "George Herbert Walker Bush" doesn't stand firmly for "the hard-working men and women of America," as Sen. Thomas Richard Harkin (D-Iowa) reminded us last Sunday...
...Since Wilder was elected two years ago, he has slashed the state's $2 billion budget deficit not by raising taxes, but by cutting funds for education and social services...
...credit, Wilder jeopardized his popularity in his chief constituency by redistributing spending from wealthy Northern Virginia secondary schools to poorer rural areas. He has also fought the Virginia good-old-boy establishment to help minority-owned businesses...
...these accomplishments are little known outside Richmond. What has made national news is Wilder's perpetual feud with Sen. Charles S. Robb. Wilder's waning poll ratings show that many Virginians are beginning to wonder whether he's spending his time solving the state's problems or sulking in political paranoia...
...Wilder hopes to create a novel coalition between Black voters and conservative Democrats. But if the Democratic Party really wanted to nominate someone like Doug Wilder, it could have found someone much more popular--someone like George Bush...