Can Mike Stuart, running for the Republican AG nomination, sink any lower?
Let's give him a chance – there is still a couple of weeks until the WV primary
Mike Stuart has kept me busy since January documenting his atrocities. This one may be the worst. Here are the basics as explained earlier today by WV Metro News reporter Brad McElhinny:
The wife of a state trooper who was slain in the line of duty says a candidate for West Virginia attorney general has repeatedly used the . . .
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Off the deep end
Huggins endorses Chris Miller for WV governor
From Amelia Knisely, reporter for WV Watch:
Governor candidate Chris Miller has announced that former West Virginia University basketball coach Bob Huggins will publicly endorse him today in Wheeling.@WTRF7News https://t.co/OCpfKErawZ
— Amelia Knisely (@ameliaknisely) April 4, 2024
It's like "a full court . . .
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The issue is disclosure
Once again, Ogden Newspapers comes up short
Answer
At most newspapers, the biggest story would likely be either A, C, or D. But the Wheeling News-Register only sometimes functions as a newspaper; its Republican bias in news coverage and its failure to disclose its conflicts of interests leave it woefully short of what some readers might expect.
A look at . . .
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Joe Manchin’s vain attempt to stay relevant
This week, even with his Senate career winding down, West Virginia’s Joe Manchin continued to chase the spotlight. The result:
The good
On Monday, the Washington Post published an opinion piece by Manchin:
Op/ed by Sen. Joe Manchin in WAPO:
"I want to congratulate President Biden for the record-breaking energy production . . .
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Last month at CPAC, Jack Prosobiec called for the overthrow of American democracy. Yesterday, the Republican state treasurer and candidate for Congress, Riley Moore, called him a friend and a “true patriot”
Will anyone in the West Virginia media ask Moore about this “true patriot”?
”We are here to overthrow it completely”
Here is Human Events editor, Jack Posobiec, at the annual Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) meeting last month:
Jack Posobiec at CPAC: “Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on Jan. 6, but we will endeavor to . . .
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What have WV's senators been doing lately?
Short answer: same old, same old
Joe Manchin
Like Freddie Kruger, he keeps coming back
From CNN:
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer recently discussed a long-shot idea with Sen. Joe Manchin: Making a late entry into the US Senate race in West Virginia to try to hold on to his seat as an independent. https://t.co/UqkZwdRDBk
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) . . .
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Today, WV Senator Shelley Moore Capito praised a fellow Republican senator who lied to the American public following President Biden’s State of the Union Address
Will any WV media call her out on this? Don’t bet on it
The Republican response to President Biden’s State of the Union speech was given by Senator Katie Britt of Alabama. In the speech, Britt lied to the American public about the results of Biden’s border policies and it was quickly called out by mainstream media:
Katie Britt used decades-old example of rapes in Mexico as Republican attack on . . .
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