The whole VA counties move to WV is just silly, a waste of time and distraction from the real challenges this state faces. Losing 57,516 people in the last 5 yrs. We need to focus on polices that make WV a place and in particular young people want to be and come to.
Mick Bates
@BatesMick · WV · H
Posts66
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Voting-record position0.067
CoverageJan 16, 2020 to Feb 12, 2023
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RT @juliareinstein: Grocery store workers are unsung heroes of this pandemic, putting themselves at risk every day so we all can get food.&
Over the past 5 years we have lost 57,516 West Virginians. It is past time we acted on this and made WV a destination rather than departure state. https://t.co/SFq5aQEHyF
RT @laurapdavison: Tight Deadline: Treasury is giving non-filers until Wednesday to claim the $500 stimulus payments for children. (After t&
Del. Mick Bates, voted against the bill The only one it protected was the attorney general, who filed the lawsuit against Obamacare for political reasons and had the Republican leadership run this bill so he had political cover, https://t.co/qLNod0TuUZ
RT @xxxneonslavexxx: On the other end of the spectrum we have West Virginia which is hemorrhaging it’s population en masse. The only areas…
@WVUFLU @PhilKabler Could we not at least pave a road to a food bank if we are going to pay for pavement rather than protein?
RT @Sen_JoeManchin: The state of West Virginia has $1.25 billion in the bank that Congress allocated through the CARES Act. Governor Justic&
@BenSalango More like Roads to Poverty. We are sitting on hundreds of millions of unspent road bond money and he is campaigning by paving the covid highway with CARES Act dollars ment to help West Virginians.
There is no good reason to park 1/2 of WV 1.25 BB CARES money over at Workforce when we have unmet needs now. Unless of course King Jim has plans to move it and use it somewhere else some other time. It is shell game. Spending it without spending it. Legislature needs to act. https://t.co/phFZdr9lKg