Yesterday was a big day in WV 2012 election. Gubernatorial candidates faced off at The Charleston Daily Mail and US Senate candidates went at it in Eastern WV. Here are a few clips to give you a quick update on WV political developments. Tonight all eyes will be on Denver for the first and most important presidential debate.
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Gubernatorial candidates draw contrasts
By Ry Rivard [Daily Mail Reporter]
Daily Mail Capitol Reporter
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Bill Maloney, the Republican candidate for governor, easily ticks off West Virginia’s problems, as he sees them.
The business climate isn’t good, the courts are lacking, the tax code needs to be reformed, the coal industry is over-regulated and West Virginia is home to one of the worst educated populations in the country.
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, the Democrat incumbent and veteran of the state Senate, wonders just what Maloney plans to do about any of it.
U.S. Senate candidates square off in Shepherdstown
By Vicki Smith [The Associated Press]
SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. – Republican John Raese’s unrelenting portrayal of incumbent U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin as anti-coal and in bed with an “anti-West Virginia” Obama administration is “ridiculous and absurd” and “a bald-faced lie,” the third-party candidate in the race said Tuesday night.
Kennedy referenced in US Senate debate in W.Va.
By The Associated Press
SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. — Listen to the U.S. Senate debate in West Virginia, and you might think the late Sen. Edward Kennedy is still alive.
Perdue, Hall spar over campaign contributions
By Eric Eyre [The Charleston Gazette]
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia’s Republican candidate for state treasurer sharply criticized incumbent John Perdue Tuesday for accepting $28,800 in campaign contributions from at least 35 state employees who work in Perdue’s office.