From the DCCC :
Friday’s (April 4, 2008) news that America lost 80,000 jobs in March - the third month in a row of American job losses - is a sobering reminder of Representative Shelley Moore Capito’s long history of refusing to help people who lose their jobs. Now, after years of loyalty to the failed economic agenda of George Bush, Representative Capito is embracing more of the same with Senator John McCain.
"When Representative Shelley Moore Capito had an opportunity to help Americans who lost their jobs, she voted against unemployment insurance," said Jennifer Crider, Communications Director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "Now, after years of blind loyalty to a President who has the worst economic record since Herbert Hoover, Representative Capito is hitching her wagon to John McCain -- who said himself that he doesn’t know much about the economy. Struggling families in West Virginia who lost their job, or are afraid they ...
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Secretary of State office’s costly typo of Barth’s nameFrom: WVaBlue.com
Post Date: 2008-03-30 16:24:48
Republican Secretary of State Betty Ireland is probably not politicizing her office, but her office made a costly "goof":
CHARLESTON, W.VA. - Anne Barth, Democratic candidate for West Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District, won’t be appearing on the ballot in May - but someone named Ann Barth will.
Actually, the two are the same, as far as the West Virginia Secretary of State’s office is concerned. The office called Anne Barth - the actual candidate - on Thursday to i...
more Disappointing Quote of the Week - WV DEP Passes the BuckFrom: WVaBlue.com
Post Date: 2008-03-30 05:45:13
Check out this whopper of a quote in an article by Ken Ward in Sunday’s Gazette-Mail .
When asked about research findings released last week which concluded that residents in coalfield counties face a greater risk of early death, and of suffering from heart, lung and kidney disease, Secretary of the WV Division of Environmental Protection, Stephanie Timmermeyer had the following comments:
"No one at my agency should be talking about whether these facilities have adverse ...
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