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An OPEN LETTER to … West Virginia Leaders

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AN OPEN LETTER TO WEST VIRGINIA SENATE PRES. MITCH CARMICHAEL AND HOUSE SPEAKER ROGER HANSHAW:

Know what finally would have placed a good face on the people of West Virginia for the whole country to see?

If both of you, on Martin Luther King Day, would have pledged your personal support for the proposed Fairness Act and explained why, especially at this time, it is most important for our state to finally do away with permitted discrimination.

Instead, you failed this past Monday to even offer resolutions in King’s honor in your respective chambers, and that means, once again, you failed the good people of West Virginia. This time, though, it didn’t involve yet another sell-out to big corporations, and it wasn’t salivating over the troubling ALEC agenda. No, this time you further solidified our embarrassing bad reputation by creating a rusted-old hashtag or brand or, for we older folks, a sickening slogan.

Pick your favorite:

#HateInMountainState

#TheGottaBeStraightState

#DiscriminateInMountainState

Or, my favorite: #MountainStateHates

Sincerely,

#VoteHatersOut

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Steve Novotney
Steve Novotney
Steve Novotney has been a professional journalist for 33 years, working in print for weekly, daily, and bi-weekly publications, writing for a number of regional and national magazines, host baseball-related talks shows on Pittsburgh’s ESPN, and as a daily, all-topics talk show host in the Wheeling and Steubenville markets since 2004. Novotney is the co-owner, editor, and co-publisher of LEDE News, and is the host of “Novotney Now,” a daily program that airs Monday-Friday from 3-6 p.m. on River Talk 100.1 & 100.9 FM.

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