{"id":3759,"date":"2018-10-11T19:07:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T23:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=3759"},"modified":"2018-10-11T19:29:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T23:29:09","slug":"sarah-chayes-calls-on-west-virginians-to-write-in-no-more-manchin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=3759","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Chayes Calls on West Virginians to Write In No More Manchins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are Democrats in West Virginia who are going to vote for Senator Joe Manchin \u2013 no matter that he\u2019s a corporate Democrat, no matter that he supports Big Pharma and the fossil fuel industry, no matter that he was the only Democratic Senator to vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8agAiquVtFY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But there are Democrats in West Virginia who are not going to vote for Senator Manchin. And they are not going to vote for his opponent, West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey.<\/p>\n<p>What should they do?<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Chayes says they should write in \u2013 \u201cNo More Manchins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chayes, who lives in Paw Paw, West Virginia, is an internationally recognized expert on corruption. She has studied corruption around the world and written a book about it titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corporatecrimereporter.com\/news\/200\/sarah-chayes-on-ashraf-ghani-transparency-international-and-thieves-of-state\/\">Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security (Norton, 2015).<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mz8P7P8sVeI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now she\u2019s writing a book on corruption in the USA. (The working title is <em>Kleptocracy in America<\/em> \u2013 it\u2019s a takeoff on Alexis de Toqueville\u2019s <em>Democracy in America<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>What would she say to those Democrats who say they have to vote for Manchin no matter what \u2013 because power in the Senate hangs in the balance?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will not vote for Senator Manchin,\u201d Chayes told <em>This Week in Morgan County with Russell Mokhiber.<\/em> \u201cI intend to write in. And I\u2019m not going to write in a specific candidate. I want to resonate with that huge body of Mr. Nobody West Virginians. I want to write in \u2013 No More Manchins \u2013 and everything he represents \u2013 which somebody who puts a D label on their shirts, takes people\u2019s votes for granted, and behaves as the lackey of the private sector members of the kleptocratic network that is running this state and running this nation. That means Big Pharma and Big Fossil Fuels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis votes are always to benefit those guys. I would love to see his calendar and see how much time he spends schmoozing, talking, hearing the perspectives of, eating with, hunting with, hanging out with, drinking booze with, either lobbyists or executives of Big Pharma, and fossil fuel interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry, but he is a human being like everybody else,\u201d Chayes said. \u201cHe is influenced by what he hears the most from and what he identifies with personally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming election on November 6 might decide whether the Senate goes Republican or Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>Why would you be willing to risk a Senate controlled by Republicans, a Senate that could push through maybe another Trump appointee to the Supreme Court?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere\u2019s why. I want substance, not letters. We tend to judge everything by numbers these days. We say \u2013 Manchin, D after his name. Let\u2019s get enough Ds and then we can worry about getting good Ds. And I\u2019m like \u2013 a D who doesn\u2019t represent the people of the state of West Virginia \u2013 I don\u2019t care if he\u2019s a D.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWest Virginia has a powerful and glorious populist past \u2013 and I mean populist past \u2013 and I mean populist in the best sense \u2013 where ordinary people banded together to fight the abuse of the people who concentrated the wealth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy standing there as a D, Manchin is preventing West Virginians from coming together to re-imagine what a populist party that really cares for the people ought to look like. He\u2019s doing a greater favor to the Republicans by preventing the development of a real people oriented party.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are Democrats in West Virginia who are going to vote for Senator Joe Manchin \u2013 no matter that he\u2019s a corporate Democrat, no matter that he supports Big Pharma and the fossil fuel industry, no matter that he was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=3759\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3759"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3764,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759\/revisions\/3764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}