So when does West Virginia start taking Senator Byrd’s name off of everything?
People here still speak of that as a time of great wonder when money flowed from the east into the Mountain State all due to the great Senate sorcerer Byrd of the White Sheet.
Their numbers are fewer every year, I used to ask them - ‘Name one thing Byrd got funded that still exists stands on its own meaning its self-funding’. They can’t! Lots of things are named after him here but once you get past saying the name, Thats it!
I was in the WVU’s President office for a meeting the day Byrd died. When that happened, they got a call that $30 million of earmarked funds were being reclaimed by their respective agencies and would be pulled out of WVU’s budget. I was there when they got the phone call. Prior to that they acted like Byrd was immortal.