A Rockfeller was governor of Arkansas in the 1970's as I recall.
Then the Clintons's came to power in Arkansas in the 1980's.
Just curious.
I miss the suggested West Virginia - Arkansas connection.
No relation to the Rockefellers. Justice is a native born West Virginian. Inherited much of his wealth, but parlayed it into a business empire built on debt but not cash flow. His holdings include the Greenbrier Resort. He had a long documented history of stiffing creditors and non payment of businexs taxes and fines.
we had Justices in Logan County in the 1950s and probably well before that. I remember the name when i was a kid. Don’t remember if they were rich. One neighborhood was called Justice Addition.
No connection to Rockefeller, though I am sure they have met.
Justice made his money originally through coal. He is a genuine WV coal baron. He also owns the Greenbrier and is diversified in other industries. He has had a horrible business ethics reputation in that of hiring contractors and not paying them or making them take him to court to get paid. Also I have heard stories of him screwing over business partners, etc. In the past I have always taken these stories with a grain of salt because you hear similar stories about others in the coal industry. Remember this is a blue collar union state so you can imagine the stories. However with Justice its consistent and seems to be more then union PR smoke. To win the WV governorship he jumped from GOP to Rat then with Trump present and a lot of fanfare jumped back to GOP. He has been mostly a flop as governor, refuses to live in the governors mansion so he is always at least an hour from the statehouse. Therefore he is always accused of being out of touch with the legislature. He is very much disliked by both parties and I can’t really name any accomplishments. There are constant rumors that he will run for the Senate against Manchin. And rumors Manchin will leave the Senate and run for governor again against Justice. I don’t think Justice can win a head-to-head race with Manchin. Personally I think they’ll cut a deal Justice runs for the Senate & Manchin runs for Governor.
I also still think Manchin thinks he is a dark horse for the Rat Veep nomination and in his fevered dreams a darker horse for the Rat Prez nomination.
Justice is just another example of WV’ers overwhelming fascination with the rich as state political leaders. It’s possible Justice could end up a permanent political fixture just like Rockefeller. However these recent court cases may break his WV political “rich-guy” aura.