What Joe Manchin’s constituents think of his bipartisanship
When Joe Manchin was in the fight of his political life, vying for reelection in a state where being a Democrat had long been out of fashion, the senator’s opening message to voters focused on the place he knew best: Farmington, West Virginia.
Manchin argued throughout his last reelection campaign that it was his upbringing in the small Appalachian town set on the banks of Buffalo Creek from working at his family’s local grocery store to watching how relationships in his hometown transcended political lines that helped make him a politician who would listen to even his most ardent detractors and use his power to make sure every bipartisan avenue was exhausted before he picked the best option for the people of his state.
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Joe Manchin, the Democratsâ indispensable senator
Ideological purity may prove satisfying to some â but it will be a satisfaction experienced from the political sidelines.
By Scot Lehigh Globe Columnist,Updated March 9, 2021, 4:13 p.m.
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US Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia is the moderate that Democratic progressives now love to loathe. His unforgivable sin? He is insufficiently leftist.
US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New
The Sunrise Movement, an assemblage of young Green New Dealers, is angry that Manchin rejects their clangy call to defund the police. The No Excuses PAC, another constellation in the AOC galaxy, has made it known that theyâll be casting about for a lefty challenger to the West Virginia moderate should he seek reelection in 2024.
Environmental News For The Week Ending 16January 2019
This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at
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New US Covid infections for the week ending January 16th were 8.5% below those of the week ending January 9th, so it appears that the incidence of new cases mat have peaked and is turning down, at least for the time being. One caveat to that, though, is that we don t know how many of the prior week s cases were from reports that had been delayed over the holidays. For a check on that, we can compare new cases from the week ending January 16th to those from the week ending December 19th, two weeks which sh