Posted on 04/27/2017 6:31:23 PM PDT by T Ruth
After years of fights with the Obama administration and the EPA, Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is well positioned to take down Senator Joe Manchin in 2018.
About a year ago, the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily halted implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, and though the court didn’t know it at the time, this probably killed off the plan for good.
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If and when the Clean Power Plan is cast aside, it will be a major victory for Patrick Morrisey, currently the attorney general of West Virginia, chairman of the Republican Attorney Generals Association, and a strong potential GOP option for 2018, when West Virginia’s Democratic senator, Joe Manchin, faces reelection.
A lot of state attorney generals opposed the plan, but it was Morrisey’s office that wrote the brief, and he was eager to lead the charge.
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In 2012, Morrisey was active with the state GOP and tried to help the party recruit a candidate for attorney general, an office no Republican had occupied since 1933. [snip] When no other Republican was willing to run, Morrisey jumped in himself.
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Campaigning resolutely against Obamacare, Morrisey won in a year when Democrats carried every other statewide office.
It didn’t take long for Morrisey to establish himself as one of the state attorneys general most inclined to file suit against the federal government.
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West Virginia voters seem pleased; in November, they reelected Morrisey 51 percent to 41 percent.
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It doesn’t look good for Manchin.
He signed onto a gun control bill with Toomey that was very unpopular.
Democrat politicians pose as pro-American if they think that’s what the voters in a district favor.
Then once in office, walk in lock step with the most vile of their party’s leftists.
Not if President Trum0p comes out against him.
That and his dear daughter Heather jacked the price of Epipens up.
Morrisey’s 51% isn’t anything to brag about. That’s really anemic.
From now to election day Manchin will be wearing hunting boots, wearing a coon skin cap, and toting a deer rifle. We’ll see if he can fool the yokels again.
Manchin is a slimy turd. Talks Conservative to keep his job. He blows.
All this *yokel* has to say to you is,
dove il sole non splenderà
He cowrote the most aggrestive gun grabber bill and WV loves him. Besides he and trump are dealing. Voted for gorsuch.
Not again I think.
WAS THAT HIS DAUGHTER???!!
Yep! Heather Bresch. She was also the one who got an MBA from WVU without completing the coursework. That aggravated a lot of West Virginians too.
Thank you for the information on daughter of Manchin. And I was hoping Manchin was a decent sort, who might change parties.
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