On the Other Side: a Republican Who Worked With Virginia's Democratic Governor

Article: A Businessman Bridges the Political Aisle

John H. Chichester, the top Republican in the Virginia Senate, is probably the one lawmaker the governor could not have done without in last year's budget debates.

Mr. Chichester, whom state higher-education leaders consider one of their best advocates in the General Assembly, felt just as strongly as Gov. Mark R. Warner, a Democrat, that Virginia needed to do

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