{"id":73804,"date":"2017-08-04T09:40:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T13:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73804"},"modified":"2017-08-04T10:08:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T14:08:34","slug":"wvs-governor-jim-justice-switches-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73804","title":{"rendered":"WV’s Governor Jim Justice switches parties"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last night, at a Trump rally, West Virginia’s governor Jim Justice announced that he was switching parties and joining the Republicans, according to the Washington Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice announced Thursday he is leaving the Democratic Party, just six months after taking office, and becoming a Republican. An extra twist of the knife for Democrats: He did it alongside President Trump, at a rally in West Virginia.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike it or not, but the Democrats walked away from me,\u201d he told Trump supporters. ” … West Virginia, I can’t help you anymore by being a Democratic governor.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The move was more political than ideological. West Virginia, traditionally a Democrat state has been moving towards the Republicans since the millennium. In presidential elections, WV voted 65% for Trump, 63% for Romney and 56% for McCain. <\/p>\n

Justice switched from the Republican Party to the Democrats when he began his run at the governor’s mansion in 2015, so he certainly knows when to jump parties.<\/p>\n

His solution to fix West Virginia’s budget woes is, of course, to raise sales and business taxes in the state, a typical tax-and-spend bureaucrat. When Republicans in the Legislature proposed a leaner budget for the state, Justice vetoed the bill because of proposed cuts. The Legislature is run by the Republican majority, so Justice was outgunned anyway. <\/p>\n

In short, state Republicans probably don’t want Justice in their party – Republicans just don’t need another RINO. I expect Democrat Senator Joe Manchin will jump parties before his reelection bid next year, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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