Former CBS newsman and West Virginia native Ed Rabel will be in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia this Saturday April 26 from 3 pm to 7 pm.
Rabel is running as an independent candidate for Congress in the Second Congressional District, the seat vacated by Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito (R), who is running for U.S. Senate.
Rabel has until August 1 to garner more than 2,000 signatures to secure ballot access as an independent.
He’ll be in Berkeley Springs to introduce himself to voters and collect signatures.
Rabel will be the only candidate in the race who wants to put the brakes on mountaintop removal coal mining and fracking, shift toward a solar energy economy, and crack down on corporate welfare.
Rabel also wants to curtail the role of money in politics.
“When the Supreme Court equated money with free speech and companies with people, it did great damage to our democracy,” Rabel writes on his website, RabelforCongress.com. “We’re nearing the point in West Virginia where political action committees and private interests that are based out-of-state will soon spend more money on our elections than we do . . . and it’s not because they are concerned about the well being of West Virginians. They have their own interests to promote and they see our elected officeholders as conduits through which they can further those interests . . . whether or not their agendas benefit or even matter to West Virginians.”