them deserve total transparency . and just to the south, a leftist judge in west virginia has justt tossed a republican candidate from the ballot even thoughca earlyh though voting is already underwayd and the primary is just days t away qunol a circuit court judge, duke blum ruled that voteses for a district senate candidate andrea garrettd .re andrea garrett kiessling wouldga not be countedrr due to issues o over her residency. now immediately signs were posted at polling places announcing that she is ineligible. but andrea garrett kiessling is. fighting back saying she always has been a west virginian and that this isis disenfranchizing to the voters. the candidate made an appeal to the supreme court to put a stay on judge bloom s ruling and hours ago they rejected that motion. joining us now is gop state senate candidate andrea kiessling and her campaign
adviser greg thomas. andrea, your appeal was rejected for the stay. voting is underway. what isou your fight possibly go from here now? well, thanks for having us on, laura . of course, we are very disappointed by the supreme court s ruling today. it s just it s disappointing. we h we have a lot of expectations in terms of the integrity of elections and the fact that there was a judge that interfered with our elections is concerning. there was a window to contest the eligibility of candidates and that window passed nearlyra three months ago. so what s going on ? i mean, you have a campaign manager sitting next to you who you would anticipate you would anticipate everything the campaigngn manager you have to okay, this roadblock couldlo comeck. this obstacle couldld come. but when the voting is already underway, how is this in any way this common sense fair?
time in another state to be eligible. is at it correct? toi had moved to north carolinc and spent some time there. i split my timear between north carolina, minnesota and west virginia and the pursuit ofno businesses and other opportunities and yeah, that came down that came out to i be the biggest problem. now, ofn course, in westn virginia, one of our main concerns is retention of talent and that s something that we want to do is bring peoplee w back to west virginia. my my time spent in other states was simplyn a means to an end to be able to return tovi west virginia. so of course i m disappointed by it. so there s still a lot of work to do. well, andrea and greg, both of. you, first of all, thanks for coming. but andreaea, you jus, you justo get back at it, okay? don tt don t let it stop you, okay? they re going to keep t trying o do stuff like this .im i imagineag you have to run agan if this doesn t pan out, which it looks like it might not. in wes but thank you for alerting us
t forget the legal issues that are involved? yeah, i mean i think that s exactly it, laura . we you know, obviously we knew the injury had split time between here and another state over a few years. but you know, there s a window to challenge the stuff once we got through that window, you know, we reallywe, you know, stepped on the gasai on the campaign and what triggered this challenge is we have one of our opponents in the primary, a very liberal candidate named josh higginbotham. he was the only republican to support the transgender issue kind of stuff here in west virginia once he took a poll and found out that andrea wasas in first and he was in last then he, he he, he boarded up with the local greedy personal injury lawyers and the local liberal activist judge and got her thrown off the ballot. but they got a statete supreme court refusal to intervene as well. and yet when people are going to vote, andrea, is your name