10/12/2026
Wow. Just wow.
The solution to the affordability crisis—fuel, utilities, groceries, childcare, and housing—is to ‘live within your means.’
Daycare costs about ~$700 per month depending on your child’s age and potty training status while the average mortgage is West Virginia is between $1,445 to $1,543.
What a non-answer.
‘Minimum wage here is above the national.” That’s right, if you have more than 6 employees it’s $8.75, less, it falls back in line at $7.25. Tipped workers, we’re looking at $2.62. Meanwhile 1 in 5 live in poverty, but we’re getting a credit for personal property taxes so…remind me, how much is a pound of beef right now?
‘There’s lots of jobs on the avenue that pay $17 dollars an hour but no one wants to work.’
‘Speeding is the reason our roads are so dangerous’—I’ll take that for the interstates and agree with taking personal accountability, but what about the secondary roads?
‘Well, it’s hard to get anyone to come to work, and when they do, they don’t know have to run the equipment’ to fix the roads.
‘We’ve dealt with PEIA since dirt.
And??
Did ‘we have 27 counties where more people showed up to vote than were registered in the last election’ or did we have an ‘11% turnout.’
Official Secretary of State count was 21.02% in West Virginia.
The math ain’t math’in.
I gotta say, this candidate forum is not disappointing, it’s eye opening.
It was easy to spot the candidates who came to talk with us and not at us.
With a little more than twenty days, I encourage you to take the time to hear our candidates answer questions like these and to ask your own.
I’ll post a link to Marion County’s House of Delegates for Districts 74, 75, & 76 candidate forum here when it becomes available.
Senate Candidates in Districts 2 & 13 are next Sunday. Please add links to forums in your local districts!
Here’s a picture of a beautiful tree, mostly because I need to touch grass after that.
We. Deserve. Better.
Vote him out.
