{"id":3346,"date":"2018-04-10T21:17:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T01:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=3346"},"modified":"2018-11-05T14:13:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T19:13:03","slug":"john-isner-on-poverty-teachers-and-tally-reed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=3346","title":{"rendered":"John Isner on Poverty Teachers and Tally Reed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">John Isner grew up in West Virginia. He knows the problems facing working class people in West Virginia because he grew up in a working class family. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ElBaGXx0Bkw\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He went on to law school and now he\u2019s running for House of Delegates in the 59th District &#8212; which includes the southern part of Morgan County and the western part of Berkeley County. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Isner\u2019s mom was a single mom raising four kids in a one bedroom house. He knows poverty first hand because he\u2019s experienced it first hand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cGoing through poverty as a kid, I was very upset about it,\u201d Isner told Russell Mokhiber of This Week in Morgan County. \u201cBut now, I\u2019m thankful. I can understand where people are coming from. I know what it\u2019s like to have to live on government assistance because I grew up in a single parent household. I know what it\u2019s like to have to worry about whether or not my siblings are going to eat. There were times when my mom didn\u2019t eat because there was only enough food for the four of us. I got to watch that growing up. That put me in a place where I am very thankful for what I have today. It\u2019s because of community backing and people who were helping my mom and we got through it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Isner now teaches political science at Shepherd University. And now he\u2019s practicing what he teaches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When asked about the how the teachers won their five percent pay raise, Isner reverts to his classroom lecture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI talk about it all the time in political science classes to my students,\u201d Isner said. \u201cIf you want to get anything done, you have to have a group of people to do the things that need to be done. And they stick together through the process. And that\u2019s exactly what you saw.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYou didn\u2019t see people jumping back into school. You didn\u2019t see teachers on the border saying &#8212; I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m going to keep doing this. No. They were full force at it. And they were not going to stop until they got what they deserved. And that\u2019s the type of political change that is going across the country now. It started in West Virginia. Now it\u2019s in Arizona and Oklahoma. And people are saying &#8212; wait a second, we can do this. We can actually fight and get what what we need. West Virginians have done this before. It isn\u2019t surprising. But it\u2019s great to see that it\u2019s happening now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Isner supported the teachers throughout the strike. But he says he grew up in a conservative household. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt was odd that I became a Democrat,\u201d Isner said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Isner says there are about 6,300 doors in the 59th district. And he plans on knocking on every one of them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Isner is running unopposed in the May 8 Democratic Party primary. He will face the winner of the Republican Party primary &#8212; either former Delegate Larry Kump or Tally Reed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=3257\">As we reported earlier this year,<\/a>\u00a0Tally Reed changed her voter registration in January from the home where she lives and raised her family in the 58th district to a house the Reeds own seven miles down the road in the 59th House of Delegates district.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On March 7, Tally Reed appeared on WRNR\u2019s Eastern Panhandle Talk with Rob and Dave. <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/talkradiowrnr-705556938\/3-7-18-paul-espinosa-wendy-bird-don-dellinger-and-more\">(Audio here at 1:33:30)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And she was asked about the controversy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI live in Morgan County and I have a Hedgesville address,\u201d Reed said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(True. Reed lives Berkeley Springs in the 58th &#8212; that\u2019s where she raised her family, that\u2019s where she lists her address as being Treasurer of the Debra McLaughlin for Judge campaign, that\u2019s where Tally Reed and her family live. She does have an address in Hedgesville &#8211; the 59th. That\u2019s where she registered to run for House of Delegates. That\u2019s where, on the front lawn, she keeps a big campaign sign for Tally Reed for House of Delegates and for Debra McLaughlin for Judge.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Co-host Rob Mario then asked a series of questions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mario: You are qualified to run in the 59th?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reed: Yes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(If Reed resides in the 58th district, she\u2019s not qualified to run in the 59th.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mario: Do you actually live in the 59th?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reed: Yes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Anybody who knows the Reeds and where they live knows that is an embarrassing answer.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rob Mario: That should be the end of any controversy, right?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reed: Yes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey gave me a Hedgesville address,\u201d Reed said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Reed gave herself a Hedgesville address so that she could run in the 59th District.) \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI hope that she is being truthful,\u201d Isner said. \u201cIf this is an issue going forward, she needs to step up and say something and say &#8212; I did this the wrong way. She needs to be truthful because if you are starting out with a lie in a political campaign, there is a problem there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI have never met Tally,\u201d Isner said. \u201cI\u2019ve not had that opportunity. But if somebody knows something, step up and do something. I don\u2019t have enough information to do anything on it. I pray and hope that she is telling the truth. But if she is not, then this is a major issue going forward. She needs to live here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Tally Reed did not respond to messages seeking comment for this article.)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Isner grew up in West Virginia. He knows the problems facing working class people in West Virginia because he grew up in a working class family. 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