West Virginia Policy and Campaign Finance Research Podcast

West Virginia Policy and Campaign Finance Research. This Substack publication is dedicated to tracking the flow of political money into West Virginia’s elections and policy-making process. carrieclendening.substack.com

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  Your Attorney General Doesn’t Work for You Anymore

  Jun 5, 202617 minS0

  <p>This week, I was reading about Governor Patrick Morrisey’s record as Attorney General and got stuck on a question that wouldn’t leave me alone:</p><p>When did I ever ask my Attorney General to file a multistate lawsuit?</p><p>I couldn’t remember a single time. Not once. Not in conversation with neighbors, not on a ballot question, not in any candidate forum I’d ever watched. I’ve thought plenty about consumer scams, about the opioid crisis, about whether my AG was protecting West Virginians from price-gouging or fraud. I have never once thought, “What I reall...

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  “Your Help Really Makes a Difference”: Inside Patrick Morrisey’s 2015 Pitch to Utility Donors at the Greenbrier"

  Jun 4, 202616 minS0

  <p>In the August of 2015, Patrick Morrisey — then West Virginia’s Attorney General, today the state’s 37th Governor— stood in a room at the Greenbrier resort and made a frank request of the energy, financial-services, and healthcare executives in front of him: keep writing the checks.</p><p>UtilitySecrets.org obtained audio of that fundraiser, hosted by the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA). Morrisey was joined by his counterparts from Utah and Montana, Sean Reyes and Tim Fox. In remarks that run only a few minutes apiece, the three Republican AGs explained — in unusually plain language — what donors get in return fo...

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  How to Tell When a Politician Is Actually Doing Something — and When They’re Just Saying Something

  May 30, 202616 minS0

  <p><p>*Disclaimer*</p><p>I wrote this to share my perspective regarding Senators Brian Helton and Rollan Roberts’ recent claims of fighting utility companies and advocating for clean water through Senate Concurrent Resolution 7 and Senate Resolution 32.</p><p>After months of observation, it has become clear that these actions may be more about influencing the primary election than achieving substantive change. I believe the public deserves to know the true intent behind these legislative efforts.</p></p><p>There are two things a legislature can do with a policy problem.</p><p>It can pass a law that allocates mo...

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  To the West Virginia Coal Association—and to every politician, consultant, and corporate front group hiding behind the slogan “Friends of Coal”: Spare us the Branding

  May 25, 20264 minS0

  <p>What you’ve asked West Virginians to be “friends” with, for generations, is a system that treated them as expendable.</p><p>You built an economy that depended on people having no better options—and then congratulated yourselves for offering them one. You paid wages just high enough to keep people tethered, in places where opportunity had already been stripped bare. And when those wages cycled right back out—through debt, through company towns, through economic structures you controlled—you called it prosperity.</p><p>It wasn’t prosperity. It was containment.</p><p>You want credit for jobs. But you never...

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  Americans for Prosperity’s Jason Huffman Wants to Talk About "Hospital Cartels." Let Me Show Him a Real One.

  May 24, 202616 minS0

  <p></p><p>On May 1, 2026, Jason Huffman — the West Virginia state director of Americans for Prosperity — logged on to X and wrote this, in his own words, under his own verified handle, about sitting State Senator Dr. Tom Takubo:</p><p>“For the record, @AFPWV isn’t involved in @DrTomTakubo’s race — as he seems to suggest in this interview. But our grassroots activists and staff across the state are deeply involved in defending our policy champions against the slate of center-left candidates Takubo recruited on behalf of the Hospital Cartels and their newly bought front group, the democrat-run @WVaChamber.</p><p>Ultimat...

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