Joanne Bacon Ewing, the mother of three children prominent in the arts and sports, died at her home in Mt. Pleasant, SC on Sept. 11, 2023 at the age of 96 after
The Last Campaign is a documentary feature film about the 2004 campaign for re-election of Justice Warren McGraw for the West Virginia Supreme Court, dubbed the "nastiest" judicial race in 2004, if not the most expensive. The US Chamber of Commerce is suspected of funneling millions of dollars to support ad campaigns against McGraw in the primary and the general election in a successful effort to defeat Justice McGraw as a part of what Forbes magazine described as a "secret war" against judges. The Chamber's shadowy efforts were joined in the general election by a group calling itself "For the Sake of the Kids" which spent millions supplied by a coal company executive in West Virginia to wage a smear campaign against McGraw alleging that he let a sexual predator loose to work in a school. That coal company executive has a pending $60 Million judgment against his company on appeal before the West Virginia Supreme Court, an appeal that will now be heard