Shelley and Joe make news
Following WV’s senators
Senator Shelley Moore Capito
A couple of times a week, for most of the 7+ years that I have been doing this blog, I use a search engine to see what WV’s two senators and the area’s congressman have been doing. Until this year, the results were quite predictable. Joe Manchin was always making news, David McKinley would sometimes make . . .
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"I think there is a rule that bans earmarks, but there's also a rule that says we're not bound by the rules."
Following Senator Capito down the rabbit hole on earmarks
Last week, the local “newspapers” featured area congressman David McKinley’s efforts on earmarks. (I wrote about it here.) As a follow-up, I decided to research what WV’s junior senator, Shelley Moore Capito, is saying about the subject.
From Roll Call last month, here is Capito hedging on the Senate rule banning earmarks:
. . .News from the Trump Party (formerly known as the Republican Party)
Brooke County Chapter
From page D2 of today's Wheeling News-Register:
You mean these "patriots"?
Ah, some of these "patriots" may no longer be available.
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$41.5 million for WV’s 2nd congressional district: Congressman Alex Mooney is “glad that this funding has been secured for health care centers”
While Mooney was quick to take credit for the funding, what he doesn’t tell us is that he voted against the coronavirus legislation that provided the money
Here was Mooney’s press release issued soon after the funds were released:
Congressman Alex X. Mooney (WV-02) today announced $41,596,186 in U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) grants to 12 health care centers in West Virginia’s Second Congressional District.
“I am glad that this funding has been secured for . . .
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What have WV senators been saying lately?
With 5/7 update
Good for Senator Shelley
From NBC Capitol Hill correspondent Garrett Haake:
WV’s @SenCapito today defended @Liz_Cheney as “bold and truthful into her truth,” and warned her party that actions against Cheney “could start narrowing the tent, which I think this will do. And that concerns me greatly.” pic.twitter.com/aYel1fOxXw
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More local hypocrisy
Earmarks: we were against them before we were in favor of them
Here is what David McKinley, our local congressional representative, pledged back in 2010 when he first ran for Congress:
No More Earmarks
David refused to insert earmarks into legislation as a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates and he will carry this precedent into Washington by proposing legislation to ban any . . .
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Put me in, Coach, I’m ready to innovate
Some thoughts on the Ohio County Schools and how it spends its money
Cutting the library’s funding
Last week, the Ohio County School Board cut the funding for the Ohio County Library from $884,547 a year to $589,698. As the Intelligencer reported last Wednesday, the school board president said that the money was needed for improvements to athletic fields.
How bad of a decision was this? In a . . .
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