By Steven Allen Adams | West Virginia Watchdog
CHARLESTON — It’s still too early yet to say, but with the Iowa caucus under a month away and nine candidates still in the race, could West Virginia play a role in selecting the Republican nominee for President of the United States?
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney apparently thinks [...]

By Steven Allen Adams | West Virginia Watchdog
CHARLESTON — Taxpayer-funded bonuses for for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have raised the ire of West Virginia’s U.S. senators.
Both U.S. Sens. Joe Manchin and Jay Rockefeller criticized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for paying out $13 million in bonuses to 10 executives.
Taxpayers helped bolster Fannie and Freddie [...]

By Steven Allen Adams
steven@westvirginiawatchdog.org
This weekend members of the West Virginia Republican Executive Committee spoke loud and clear: they said no to a party convention to choose their 2012 presidential nominee.
“Despite our strong belief that West Virginia be relevant in the Presidential selection process, we are also committed to ensuring that West Virginia voters not be [...]

By Steven Allen Adams
steven@westvirginiawatchdog.org
In the first blow to the West Virginia Republican Party‘s desire to hold conventions for their 2012 presidential nominating process, the Wood County Republican Executive Committee overwhelmingly voted against holding conventions.
The county executive committee met Tuesday evening in Parkersburg. After a discussion period, the committee voted 12-5 against holding individual county conventions [...]

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s Freedom First PAC endorsed Republican businessman John Raese for West Virginia’s U.S. Senate race.
Pawlenty, a conservative Republican, is the two-term Governor for the State of Minnesota. It was widely believed that Pawlenty was on the shortlist for vice president for Ariz. Sen. John McCain, who waa the Republican nominee [...]

According to a recent report by Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), a West Virginia project receiving funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ranks No. 88 on a list of 100 wasteful stimulus projects.
The report, titled “Summertime Blues: 100 Stimulus Projects that Give Taxpayers the Blues,” lists a $650,000 Army Corps [...]

At a time when the United States is starved for genuine bipartisanship in Congress, the Earmark Transparency Act (ETA) of 2010 should be as welcome as a bottle of spring water to a man lost in the desert. Earmarks are special-interest legislative provisions senators and representatives use to direct tax dollars to favored recipients. Earmarks [...]

Yesterday was a sucker punch for Democrats with two of their senior Congressional Democrats choosing to retire instead of run for reelection. From Politico:
Four top Democrats — including veteran Sens. Chris Dodd and Byron Dorgan — all prepared to pull the plug on their campaigns in a 24-hour period that began Tuesday, and in the [...]

West Virginia Ranked Again In Judicial Hellhole Report – West Virginia Headline News and Talk Radio
There’s an opportunity for West Virginia to get out of the judicial hellhole.
The American Tort Reform Foundation released its annual report today and it says the state can get off the list if proposed reforms put forward by the governor’s [...]

President Barack Obama is much like a naturally flirtatious girl who doesn’t realize she is flirtatious. You fall in love and when you get up the guts to ask her out, she reacts in disgust.
“How can this be,” you ask yourself. “It seemed like she really liked me, I thought we had a real connection. [...]