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<\/a>In most instances, she refused to answer citizen questions that she perceived would make her political life in West Virginia more difficult. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2014, in Romney, she brushed aside a question from Morgan County USA <\/a>about her opposition to raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She now only visits the region where she can get a photo op away from the citizens she represents. Most recently in 2024, she visited the 522 bypass construction site in Morgan County. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Next year Capito is up for re-election. And if Zach Shrewsbury wins the Democratic primary<\/a>, he will pose a stark working class anti-war contrast the corporatist foreign war funding Capito.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFor decades, Shelley Moore Capito and her family have ruled West Virginia like feudal lords passing power down like heirlooms while our towns crumbled and our people suffered,\u201d Shrewsbury wrote on Twitter. \u201cIt\u2019s time for it to end.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe\u2019ve been sold out by the Moores, the Capitos, the Millers, and Patrick damn Morrisey generation after generation of backroom deals and big pharma handouts while our people overdose in the hollers and our young ones pack up and leave,\u201d Shrewsbury wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey won\u2019t save us. They never intended to.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf we want good-paying union jobs, if we want to raise wages, bring our neighbors home, and break the chains of this opioid stranglehold they sure as hell won\u2019t do it for us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe\u2019ve got to fight for it ourselves. In the streets, in the ballot box, on the picket lines, and in our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWest Virginia isn\u2019t theirs to ruin. It\u2019s ours to rebuild.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s hard to fight in West Virginia. Not because we don\u2019t care but because we\u2019ve been used, abused, and left for dead by every system meant to serve us. Corporations came and ripped the wealth from our land, poisoned our water, crushed our unions, and told us to be grateful for the scraps. Politicians sold us out for a dollar and a photo op.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe are a people who\u2019ve been told to stay quiet, stay poor, and stay out of the way. But still we fight. Still we organize. Still we believe in each other.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBecause no matter how hard they try to break us. Our will to surive and resist only grows stronger. I love West Virginia. I love Appalachia. And I will always fight for our people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shrewsbury is fed up with the corporate rip-off of Appalachia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHow arrogant must the rich be to look at a starving, sick, and aging Appalachian people and say \u2013 let\u2019s take more?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen is it enough? After tens of thousands are jobless? After kids go hungry? After elders die without care? Their greed has no ceiling, but our patience does.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the Democratic primary field, Shrewsbury stands out as a populist candidate<\/a> with a clear record of community organizing, economic justice advocacy, and a no-nonsense approach to politics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For years, Senator Shelley Moore Capito would come to Morgan County and the eastern panhandle to meet voters, cut ribbons, garner press and move on. In most instances, she refused to answer citizen questions that she perceived would make her … Continue reading