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Democratic Sen. Daniel Hall said he switched to the Republican party Wednesday, a move that will help the GOP secure a majority in the upper chamber of the West Virginia Legislature.
Driven by backlash against President Barack Obama, West Virginia voters ended eight decades of Democratic rule in the Legislature on Tuesday. They dumped Democrats from the state House of Delegates and deadlocked the Senate.
Hall quickly broke the Senate tie. The Wyoming County lawmaker confirmed his party change with The Associated Press on Wednesday evening.
For Republicans, it’s the first real chance to govern the Legislature since the 1930s.
Toss in Democratic Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, and West Virginia’s state lawmaking could be pretty jumbled come January.
“What you see occurring now has not occurred during the lives of anyone else that is alive,” said House Speaker Tim Miley, D-Harrison.
However, GOP Minority Leaders Tim Armstead in the House and Mike Hall in the Senate are mulling some common conservative themes: cutting taxes, such as the one on equipment and inventory; potentially scaling back environmental and other regulations; and sharply scrutinizing state and federal education oversight, including the Common Core educational standards...
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W.Va. Senator Switches Parties Giving GOP Control CBS DC
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Driven by backlash against President Barack Obama, West Virginia voters ended eight decades of Democratic rule in the Legislature on Tuesday. They dumped Democrats from the state House of Delegates and deadlocked the Senate.
Hall quickly broke the Senate tie. The Wyoming County lawmaker confirmed his party change with The Associated Press on Wednesday evening.
For Republicans, it’s the first real chance to govern the Legislature since the 1930s.
Toss in Democratic Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, and West Virginia’s state lawmaking could be pretty jumbled come January.
“What you see occurring now has not occurred during the lives of anyone else that is alive,” said House Speaker Tim Miley, D-Harrison.
However, GOP Minority Leaders Tim Armstead in the House and Mike Hall in the Senate are mulling some common conservative themes: cutting taxes, such as the one on equipment and inventory; potentially scaling back environmental and other regulations; and sharply scrutinizing state and federal education oversight, including the Common Core educational standards...
Read More:
W.Va. Senator Switches Parties Giving GOP Control CBS DC
DRUDGE REPORT 2014
