One of the longest-serving crony US Senators was Robert Byrd, a hard-core big government boondoggle self-enricher who plastered his name all over the state in order to promote himself at the expense of everyone else.
He was also a card-carrying member of the Ku Klux Klan, yet Democrats from Bill Clinton to Barack Obama and later Hillary Clinton justified his membership in that odious group or turned a blind eye to it.
The media enabled that disgusting double-standard, too.
Now, West Virginia has become a rub-red GOP trifecta, including a Governor who was elected as a Democrat, but became a Republican last year. The last remaining Democrat in any office in the state, US Senator Joe Manchin, is facing the fight of his life. His state voted for Donald Trump overwhelmingly, in fact it was the highest margin of victory for Trump in any state in the union.
Manchin has tried to hew himself as a center-right Democrat who can still compete and thrive in the left-wing Democratic Party. He never criticizes President Trump or his staff, but simply blames Washington DC for being a place that "sucks."
He also tries to straddle both sides of the issue, saying that he is pro-life, but also celebrating Planned Parenthood.
Now what's going on with the teachers' strike that occurred all over West Virginia over the last two weeks? This long-term union stunt was a political move to undermine Republican chances. This fight brought in the West Virginia Attorney General, Patrick Morrisey, who is running against Joe Manchin this year.
Teachers unions in West Virginia put their demands for more pay ahead of the needs of their students. They don't care about getting young children out of poverty and into prosperity. They only cared about enriching themselves on the taxpayer dime. Eventually, Governor Jim Justice agreed to a 5% raise, but didn't give the teachers everything they wanted.
This movement was a threat not just to the lawmakers in West Virginia, but to show the might of organized labor going into Election 2018. Splinter News referenced this desperate reality:
But there is no question that in the past two weeks, West Virginia
teachers gave us a very clear demonstration of what organized labor is capable
of. While their strike might soon be over, their movement is not.
Organized Labor is still bullying state legislatures and taxpayers, and they won't stop, even if President Donald Trump won. Big Labor still calls the shots in Los Angeles County, California.
We need Janus to strike down forced unionism once and for all. These liberals and progressive leftists will stop at nothing. They have no qualms about exploiting children for their agenda. This is all wrong.
We need to put an end to this anti-constitutional forced unionism, which is hurting working families and putting taxpayer dollars and state legislative solvency at risk.
