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I noticed that Richie Robb is going to run against coalocrat Eric Wells. (0.00 / 0)

With his name recognition and level of popularity here in Kanawha county, Robb stands a good chance of sending Wells back to being a weather gal or whatever he used to do on the boobtube.

BTW does anyone know how Wells kept from being called back into military service?  Because I personally asked him to publicly call for removing the troops from Iraq back in 2003 when he ran against Shelley Capito, and he flatly refused.  In contrast, Robb was always on the right side of that issue.

Since that time, his voting record in the Senate and the statements he's made regarding everything from unions to women's issues indicate that he's so far from being progressive that he makes former Republican Richie Robb look like Saul Alinsky.

I plan on volunteering to actively help Robb beat Wells, and invite others to do the same.

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by: One Citizen @ Mon Jan 11, 2010 at 16:23:58 PM UTC

Erik, with a k (0.00 / 0)

I have to spell both of my real names so I am sensitive to that.

You should know begin called up depends on your MOS -- Public Affairs officer during a 2006. He is one rank away from where McCrash topped out. We know Bush tried to run the war through cheer leading and PR firms . . .

The call to campaign against Wells will be clouded for some by who is his wife. And that fact that she knows how to load a black powder musket.

NFTT: Support My Team or I Will Dance

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by: CA Berkeley WV @ Mon Jan 11, 2010 at 16:38:44 PM UTC

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"during a 2006 mobilization for a Pacific operation" (0.00 / 0)

and what was Al Gore's MOS?

NFTT: Support My Team or I Will Dance

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by: CA Berkeley WV @ Mon Jan 11, 2010 at 16:51:36 PM UTC

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Natalie is more progressive that Erik with a k. (0.00 / 0)

She's also far more popular than he is because of it.

And being a Public Affairs Officer in the Navy meant that he knew that he likely never would see any action in the mideast. It also means that he wasn't very good at it, otherwise he'd be able to raise campaign cash some way other than selling out to the coal industry.

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by: One Citizen @ Mon Jan 11, 2010 at 16:55:18 PM UTC

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The. First. Female. Mountaineer. (0.00 / 0)

Some voters tend to look for actual qualifications in their elected officials.

Tennant is certainly not progressive on investigating  voting machine irregularities and not likely to replace the one armed bandits foisted on WV by Betty Ireland, but hey, she was on teevee.  

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by: wv voice of reason @ Mon Jan 11, 2010 at 20:38:13 PM UTC

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voting (0.00 / 0)

I agree on the disappointment of looking into electronic voting issues, though I'm sympathetic about choosing what battles to fight as there's a lack of funds available to do anything about swapping them out yet.

I do give Tennant credit for already expanding voting opportunities. (Satellite early voting and the pilot electronic voting.) She's definitely making moves in the right direction there.

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by: Clem Guttata @ Mon Jan 11, 2010 at 20:51:29 PM UTC

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The integrity of the vote (0.00 / 0)

is one of the most important components of a democracy. Can't afford new machines? Go back to paper or at least permit the use of paper ballots at every polling place and allow the people to decide which they want to use, instead of insisting that there is no problem with the electronic voting machines.  

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by: wv voice of reason @ Mon Jan 11, 2010 at 22:22:31 PM UTC

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Off-topic: Anti-Mollohan robocall from MUSGRAVE (4.00 / 1)

That's right, folks... and I'm not talking about Ronnie Musgrave.

I received a robocall (caller ID said Princeton, WV) from Marilyn Musgrave today. It was an anti-Mollohan robocall. You may recall that Marilyn Musgrave is the former GOP congresswoman from Colorado who sponsored the Marriage Protection Amendment.

So, as you might have guessed, I am not pleased. I despise that woman.

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by: WV26003 @ Mon Jan 11, 2010 at 17:34:18 PM UTC

youwzaa (0.00 / 0)

Thanks for all those campaign updates.

Robocalls are cheap and generally ineffective--I hope they backfire and just motivate more folks like you to decide its important to get out and vote for Mollohan instead of someone who craves support from Marilyn Musgrave.

I know the GOP would love to take out Mollohan or Rahall but I still just can't see that happening.

For one, where are they going to find the money? The national GOP doesn't have money to drop in West Virginia. Locally, the coal folks only have so much money to drop and that'll get spread thin pretty fast.

I hear a lot of noise to try and make WV-01 and WV-03 look like potential races but I don't see any there there yet. West Virginians are incredibly reluctant to ditch incumbents with power in Washington. There's got to be some major reasons both to fire the incumbent and to hire the replacement.

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by: Clem Guttata @ Mon Jan 11, 2010 at 20:57:51 PM UTC

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Has she conceded yet? (4.00 / 2)

NFTT: Support My Team or I Will Dance

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by: CA Berkeley WV @ Mon Jan 11, 2010 at 21:15:47 PM UTC

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So far, GOP in WV-01, WV-03 (0.00 / 0)

Three in first two days... still over two and a half weeks left to go...

David B. McKinley
Legal Name: David B. McKinley Republican Ohio
District/Circuit 1 Wheeling, WV

Mac Warner
Legal Name: Andrew M. Warner Republican Monongalia
District/Circuit 1 Morgantown, WV

Lee A. Bias
Legal Name: Lee Allen Bias Republican Cabell
District/Circuit 3 Barboursville, WV

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by: Clem Guttata @ Tue Jan 12, 2010 at 22:21:29 PM UTC