Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, April 16, 1994 TAG: 9404180127
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The governor's rationale? It would be burdensome for families relying on such vehicles for transportation.
The governor should have signed the bill; since he didn't, the special General Assembly should override the veto. A lot more burdensome on families than seat belts are dead and injured children.
ALLEN'S vetoes weren't all bad. He wants to scotch creation of a gubernatorially appointed board of teachers, administrators, residents and parents to license teachers.
That task is already done by the Virginia Board of Education. Said Allen: "I didn't see the board as useful or necessary." Neither do we.
ALSO this week, objections were lifted to former major-league pitcher Steve Carlton's ascent to baseball's Hall of Fame. The president of the American Jewish Congress said he's satisfied by Carlton's denial that he made the anti-Semitic comments attributed to him in a magazine article.
According to the article, Carlton had a number of other stupid things in addition to the stale "Elders of Zion" and "12 Jewish bankers" rubbish. Denial or no, the affair reconfirms our view that sports celebrity makes a poor criterion for judging the wisdom of social or political commentary.
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