Apparently, West Virginia GOP Senate candidate and wealthy businessman John Raese is holding a “contest” in which he’s offering to pay the person in each county who publishes the most letters to the editor on his behalf, and the Parkersburg News and Sentinel, for one, isn’t having it:
Sensing vulnerability in Gov. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) latest poll numbers, the National Republican Senatorial Committee is launching over a million dollars worth of ads in the West Virginia Senate race today. ”Big spending, more government and less freedom…we don’t want a rubber stamp for Obama,” the ad’s narrator intones. “We can’t More…
Bad polling news for a number of Democratic Senate hopefuls is coming out all at once.
The first — and most surprising — item concerns Gov. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who a new Public Policy Polling survey shows trailing his GOP opponent John Raese 46 percent to 43 percent in More…
Rep. Shelley Moore Capito’s (R) announcement Wednesday that she would not run in West Virginia’s special election to replace the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D) left her party without its best chance at a competitive race against the likely Democratic nominee, Gov. Joe Manchin. Still, her exit from More…
Coming on the heels of this morning’s news that Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) will not be a candidate in the special election for the late Robert Byrd’s (D) Senate seat, it appears Gov. Joe Manchin (D), who announced yesterday that he will run for the seat, may More…
All of the West Virginia Republican lawmakers’ brouhaha over including the so-called “Capito Amendment” in the state legislature’s compromise bill authorizing a special 2010 Senate election may have been for naught. The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake reported late last night that three sources have told him Rep. Shelley More…
This afternoon, the Senate cleared a crucial hurdle to reauthorizing the federal extension of unemployment benefits, held up in the Senate for an unprecedented two months. The upper chamber voted down a filibuster of H.R. 4213, also known as the jobs bill or the extenders package — the vehicle More…
Sen. Carte Goodwin (D-W.Va.) was sworn in about half an hour ago by Vice President Biden. At 36, he is the youngest member of Senate. The late Sen. Robert Byrd (D), his predecessor and 56 years his senior, was the oldest member of the body at the time of his More…
We all knew it was coming, but now it’s official — West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D) is running in his state’s special Senate election.
He announced his campaign run this morning, a little more than 13 hours after signing the bill that actually declared the election. His run was More…
Today, Congress plans to vote on a federal extension of unemployment benefits, held up in the Senate for an unprecedented two months. The Senate will reconsider H.R. 4213, also known as the jobs bill or the extenders package, as the vehicle for a $34 billion extension of jobless benefits More…
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