Print StoryEmail StoryThe National Republican Congressional Committee is fishing in West Virginia's first congressional district, but as any angler can tell you, just because you drop a line doesn't mean you're going to get a bite.
The Republican congressional committee has been running 60-second radio commercials in Morgantown, Wheeling and Parkersburg attacking the district's Democratic congressman, Alan Mollohan.
The ad reminds voters that Mollohan's distribution of federal earmarks in the district and his personal finances remain under investigation by the FBI.
The announcer intones gravely, "West Virginians expect more and deserve better."
Why now? There's nothing new in the Mollohan investigation -- if in fact there is still one going on.
And it's the middle of August, when people are going to fairs, getting ready to go back to school, taking their final summer vacations. It's unlikely voters are thinking about the `08 congressional election.
Evidently the Republican ads are a kind of political fishing trip to see if they can stir up any interest in a viable Republican opponent for Mollohan in the critical next election.
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Print StoryEmail StoryThe National Republican Congressional Committee is fishing in West Virginia's first congressional district, but as any angler can tell you, just because you drop a line doesn't mean you're going to get a bite.
The Republican congressional committee has been running 60-second radio commercials in Morgantown, Wheeling and Parkersburg attacking the district's Democratic congressman, Alan Mollohan.
The ad reminds voters that Mollohan's distribution of federal earmarks in the district and his personal finances remain under investigation by the FBI.
The announcer intones gravely, "West Virginians expect more and deserve better."
Why now? There's nothing new in the Mollohan investigation -- if in fact there is still one going on.
And it's the middle of August, when people are going to fairs, getting ready to go back to school, taking their final summer vacations. It's unlikely voters are thinking about the `08 congressional election.
Evidently the Republican ads are a kind of political fishing trip to see if they can stir up any interest in a viable Republican opponent for Mollohan in the critical next election.
As partisan as the Bush-Cheney administration has made the Department of Justice (see the U.S. attorney scandal for details), if there was any hint of wrong-doing on Mollohan's part, Alberto Gonzales would have leaked it already. The fact that nothing happened to Mollohan means that fishing expedition failed too. No one is going to run against Mollohan and Kercheval is right: there's only one Capito. Thank goodness. Because the state can't handle more than one doubletalking misleader who's so out of step with the public on the Iraq occupation and worker safety and labor rights.
