Times West Virginian, Yahoo News – Four months after forming, the voices against West Virginia’s national elected leaders are getting louder.
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“We went from about 25 people in a smaller church basement,” Mindy Holcomb, an organizer at West Virginia Citizen Action Group, said. “We now have, I think, close to 1,800 people on our membership rolls.”
Mountaineers Indivisible Citizen Action held a town hall Saturday in Morgantown where more than 100 attendees criticized Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va. and Rep. Riley Moore, R-W.Va. An effigy of Baby Dog presided over cardboard cutouts of Capito and Moore, acknowledging the canine’s greater visibility over that of its owner, Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va. Although event organizers invited Capito and Moore to meet with constituents at the town hall, neither appeared. Instead, attendees aired their grievances toward a pair of empty chairs, which had cutouts of the politicians secured to the seat backs.
