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Earlier it was a perennial GOP candidate who lives in Florida and has to fly in to Maryland to make his campaign announcement, and now the Republicans give us an attorney general candidate who wasn't even licensed to practice law in the state until last week.
The Republican running to be the state's chief lawyer was not licensed to practice law in West Virginia until last week, according to records from the West Virginia State Bar.
Harpers Ferry resident Patrick Morrisey had not practiced law in West Virginia prior to that or had any West Virginia clients, he confirmed in an email Monday.
He was admitted to the State Bar on Jan. 24. Four days later, he filed to run for attorney general.
It is likely that Morrisey could face the issue in the campaign.
"He's going to have to respond to why he thinks he should be attorney general when he's never worked in West Virginia," said Fran Hughes, chief deputy for incumbent Attorney General Darrell McGraw.
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Morrisey moved to West Virginia in 2006 and lives in Harpers Ferry with his wife and stepdaughter. He currently practices law at the Washington, D.C. office of an international law firm. He is licensed to practice law in several jurisdictions.
But not West Virginia until he decided to run for office. He'll try to claim he'll bring a fresh perspective, but that's only because he has ZERO experience in West Virginia.
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