{"id":59388,"date":"2015-04-21T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59388"},"modified":"2015-04-20T16:50:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T20:50:28","slug":"joe-manchin-wont-run-for-wv-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59388","title":{"rendered":"Joe Manchin won’t run for WV Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, Joe Manchin announced to The State<\/a> that he was contemplating a run for the West Virginia governor’s seat because he wasn’t happy being one voice in a crowd of a hundred;<\/p>\n

Manchin has said stagnation in Congress spurred him to start considering other options. In the new Republican Congress, Manchin called having an open process with amendments and more voting an “encouragement.”<\/p>\n

Lawmakers still get bogged down in the political process, however, he said.<\/p>\n

Manchin is evaluating the state landscape, where the Legislature recently finished its first session under Republican control in more than eight decades.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, here we are two weeks later and Breitbart<\/a> reports that he’s changing his mind because…guns.<\/p>\n

Manchin\u2019s gun control reputation precedes him. He opposed recent efforts in the state to establish Constitutional Carry by doing away with a concealed carry permit requirement. He did this by suggesting the Second Amendment is not a sufficient carry license. He believes people have to be \u201cproperly trained\u201d before they can exercise their right to keep and bear arms.<\/p>\n

Manchin was also the point man for gun control in the months after the heinous attack on Sandy Hook Elementary. He pushed a system of expanded backgrounds, which would have banned private gun sales, minus a handful of exceptions, and then admitted the expanded checks would not have stopped the Sandy Hook attack from happening had they been in place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He ran as a pro-gun candidate in 2012 but a month after the election he was cozying up to Yankee Chuck Schumer and helping to cram useless expanded background checks down our national throat. Many West Virginians, including myself, felt betrayed. Manchin was the first national office Democrat that I’d voted for since Jimmy Carter in 1976. Of course, Carter made me feel betrayed after he gave amnesty to the draft dodgers on his first day in office – when will I learn, right?<\/p>\n

The final slap in our face was when he came out against the permitless concealed carry bill. You know, even though West Virginia has permitless open carry laws. His stance on the issue was solely to prove his creds to the national Democrats.<\/p>\n

Manchin has also fallen short on his other anti-Obama issue – defending the West Virginia coal industry. He has also decided that he’s going to endorse Clinton<\/a> for President. That won’t sit well with West Virginians either.<\/p>\n

I’d be very surprised if he keeps his job in the Senate after the 2018 election. Knowing he’s not happy with his job in the Senate, I’m not sure he wants it now. So he should just resign his office before he hurts West Virginia more.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Chief Tango for the links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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