In our latest Agree to Disagree column, Thad Williamson and I don’t disagree about much when it comes to the Richmond mayor’s race.
Barring a huge change in existing conditions, this is Doug Wilder’s race to lose. Should he decide to run again, that is.
And that is really the question: will Doug run again? I’d place a small wager that he does. If so, he sweeps the field, but has a much harder time doing so than in his first outing back in 2004, when he rolled up 80% of the vote and carried each of the city’s nine wards.
However, if he decides there is no more good china left to smash on Broad Street and decides life was better in Charles City after all, then I expect the field to grow by leaps and bounds…and provide local political junkies with the show of their lives.