Raese: Business great in West Virginia

by: Carnacki

Sun Nov 04, 2007 at 10:54:37 AM EST

But quite humorously in my opinion Raese also unintentionally shot down the entire "Unleashing Capitalism" campaign that the West Virginia Republicans have spent months building up.

Raese said:

He also bashed Forbes magazine for knocking the state's business climate, recently ranking it 49th.

"My family has been doing business in West Virginia since 1905. A lot of people have done business and done very well in West Virginia," he said.

"We have more natural resources in West Virginia than all but two other states, Texas and Louisiana. We have the finest work force of anywhere in the United States."

Rightwing author Russell Sobel and West Virginia GOP Chairman Doug McKinney keep tellng people at every opportunity how awful the state is for business.

"'Unleashing capitalism' will be our party platform next year," McKinney said. "Our philosophy will be, 'It's the economy, Stupid.'

"We've spent too much time in recent years on gun control and abortion.

McKinney and many other rightwingers constantly badmouth the state's business climate, which is unusual for civic leaders who normally try to help attract businesses to locate in their community instead of repulse them. I guess they forgot to tell Raese that if he becomes a candidate he's not supposed to talk about businesses doing well in West Virginia.