Saturday, February 25, 2012

WVFRW Spring Board 2012


Guest Speaker, Betty Poe, NFRW 3rd-Vice President, Region 8

Mark your calendars ladies and plan now to attend our semi-annual meeting for Republican Women all over the great state of West Virginia! Our host will be Putnam County Republican Women. The Theme is "Spirit of America."

WHEN: April 20-21, 2012

WHERE: Sleepy Hollow Golf Club

GUEST SPEAKER: Betty Poe, NFRW 3rd Vice President

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Brian Savilla, Candidate for WV Secretary of State

REGISTRATION FEE: $35.00/payble to "PCRW" & due by April 14, 2012
Send to : Jane Anne Reed, PCRW Treasurer, 102 Fox Run,
Hurricane, WV 25526-9267

REGISTRATION: 8:00 a.m. with General Session to begin at 9:00 a.m. on April 21

LODGING: Hampton Inn, 4190 State Rt. 34, Hurricane, WV 304-760-7292 (call for reservation & state WVFRW)/Room Rate (Double Room) - $81.00 + 6% tax/Continental breakfast/must reserve by April 14, 2012

MISC: WVFRW Executive Meeting is April 20 at 7:00 p.m. Hampton Inn Conference Room (dinner at Fireside Grille at 5:30 p.m.)

Monday, February 20, 2012

WV Republican Women's Day @ the Legislature


Senator Donna Boley (Pleasants County)-3rd District















Annually, Senator Donna Boley & Carolyn Dawson host an event for the "Women in Red" to attend. Almost 40 Republican Women from all over West Virginia traveled to the state capitol today for this special day. A continential breakfast greeted everyone in the Governor's Conference Room. After a time of registration and networking, the ladies posed for a photo on the Senate Floor, followed by attending the Senate session where we were introduced and welcomed in the gallery. Senate Bill 343 (would allow a grace period for fire departments to submit data to the State Fire Marshall. The State Fire Marshall would also be required to give notice to the fire department as to the dates of the grace period) was passed while we were present. Lunch was held in the food court of the capitol.

Many came to speak to the ladies: Senator Mike Hall (Putnam Co.), Senator David Nohe (Wood Co.), Del. Tim Armstead (Kanawha Co/Dist. 32), Del. Anna Border (Wood Co/Dist. 9), Del. Mitch Carmichael (Jackson Co/Dist. 12), Wood Ireland (Ritchie Co/Dist. 7), De. Carol Miller (Cabell Co/Dist. 15), Del. Rick Snuffer (Raleigh Co/Dist. 27), and Del. Kelli Sobonya (Cabell Co/Dist. 16).

Candidates included: John Raese for U.S. Congress, Bill Maloney for Governor, Allen Loughry for WV Supreme Court, Jim Butler for House of Del. in Mason County, Robin Holstein for House of Del. in Kanawha County, and Suzette Raines for House of Delegates in Kanawha County.

The days' events are successful at energizing our groups to get busy and work harder to achieve our goals. May we all do our part to "Paint our county red" in order to make West Virginia a "Red State in 2012!"

Senators & Delegates present:


Delegate Tim Armstead (Kanawha County)


Delegate Mitch Carmichael (Jackson County)


Senator Mike Hall (Putnam County)


Delegate Woody Ireland (Ritchie County)


Delegate Carol Miller (Cabell County)


Delegate Kelli Sobonya (Cabell County)

Candidates Present:


John Raese for U.S. Congress


Allen Loughry for West Virginia Supreme Court


Bill Maloney for West Virginia Governor


Jim Butler for House of Delegates - Mason County


Robin Holstein for House of Delegates - Kanawha County


Suzette Raines for House of Delegates - Kanawha County

Monday, February 13, 2012

Candidate Connection - PATRICK MORRISEY

For West Virginia Attorney General



www.PatrickMorrisey.com

About Patrick

A nationally prominent health care lawyer, Patrick Morrisey serves as partner and co-chair of King & Spalding's Food and Drug (FDA) and Life Science Group. In practice since 1992, Morrisey has worked on many high profile health care matters and possesses a broad array of experience on regulatory issues, Medicare, Medicaid, policy, fraud and abuse investigations, legislative, strategic counseling, and legal and policy challenges to federal statutes and regulations.

Morrisey assisted the states' successful challenge to the health care law in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals and continues to counsel Members of Congress on strategies to repeal the law. He has led successful efforts to thwart the federal government's efforts to impose price controls on health care products and seeks to limit the scope of federal regulations over our nation’s health care system. Morrisey also has extensive experience analyzing a myriad of Medicaid policies and federal matching rules, an invaluable background in light of the fact that Medicaid represents the second largest line-item expenditure in the state’s budget. From 2004 to 2010, Morrisey was a partner at Sidley Austin LLP.

During his 20 year legal career – in addition to his health care expertise -- Morrisey has handled administrative law, election law, public policy, and several criminal defense matters. Between most of 1999 to 2004, Morrisey served as the Deputy Staff Director and Chief Health Care Counsel to the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee. In that capacity, Morrisey helped draft and negotiate major legislation, including the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 and the Bioterrorism and Public Health Preparedness Act of 2002. Morrisey was the principal liaison for the Committee on health care issues to the White House, the U.S. Senate, the House of Representatives, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

As Deputy Staff Director, Morrisey was also familiar with other issues under the Committee’s jurisdiction, including consumer protection, energy, and environmental matters. Prior to his tenure in the House of Representatives in 1999, he was employed in private practice, owned and operated his own law firm, and worked for several public officials. Morrisey’s election law experience includes work on multiple recounts, the counseling of candidates and entities on campaign finance laws, and the training and implementation of ballot security measures in Mongolia in 1996.

Morrisey has been very active in the Eastern Panhandle community since moving to West Virginia in 2006. He has written a regular column for the Spirit of Jefferson newspaper and volunteered for the Potomac Street Project, an ongoing effort to rebuild part of downtown Harpers Ferry. A member of the Eastern Panhandle Business Association, Morrisey has also served on the Jefferson County Republican Executive Committee.

Originally from New Jersey, Morrisey earned a bachelor of arts in history and political science, with honors, (obtaining high honors in history) from Rutgers College in 1989 and a juris doctor from Rutgers Law School-Newark, in 1992. A product of a working-class family – Morrisey is licensed to practice law in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia. He is married and has one stepdaughter.

Morrisey for Attorney General
P.O. Box 820
Charles Town, WV 25414

info@MorriseyforAG.com

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Candidate Connection - JOHN RAESE

For United States Senate



www.raeseforsenate.org

About John

Morgantown businessman John R. Raese is a Republican candidate for the United States Senate.

A native son and lifelong resident of West Virginia, John has a personal and family track record of creating good jobs in the private sector. Raese serves as president and CEO of Greer Industries, which include Greer Limestone, Greer Lime, Greer Steel and Preston County Coal and Coke. He is also Chairman of the Board of West Virginia Radio Corporation, which owns 25-radio stations across the state and is founder of the respected METRONEWS Radio Network, which has 56-affiliates reaching every part of the state. John is also vice-president of the Dominion Post, a daily Morgantown newspaper with a circulation of approximately 30,000. His newest launch was Pikewood Creative, a high-end video post-production house and creative agency located in the Suncrest district of Morgantown. In 2011 Pikewood won a prestigious Emmy award for creative excellence.

Growing up in University City, the son of the late Jane Greer Raese and former WVU basketball coach Richard A. “Dyke” Raese, John attended public schools and earned a B. S. degree from West Virginia University in 1973 where he played freshman basketball and varsity baseball. His love for the state attracted him to stay after graduation to build upon and grow the family business which has deep roots in West Virginia and beyond. His namesake grandfather started hauling goods with a team of horses in picturesque Davis, West Virginia, before he was able to open a successful general merchandise store. His maternal great-grandfather was one of the most prominent businessmen and community leaders of Dover/New Philadephia, Ohio. His businesswoman grandmother and engineer grandfather, Agnes and Herbert Greer, moved to Morgantown almost a century ago and established the firm foundation that has provided thousands of good jobs for West Virginians for more than half the state’s history.

Despite a long list of business accomplishments throughout a lifetime, John is most proud of his family – wife Liz and two wonderful daughters, Jane and Agnes. Liz is the founder of the Conservative Women of West Virginia, a growing group of activists charting a conservative path for the Mountain State.

An avid sportsman and hunter, John also adopted his father’s love of the game of golf. He cut out a five hundred acre track of Greer land on Monongalia County’s Kingwood Pike, where he designed and developed Pikewood National Golf Club. In 2009 Pikewood earned the distinguished honor of “Best New Private Course” in the nation by Golf Digest Magazine and last year was named one of the world’s top ten “one hit wonders” by Links Magazine joining courses such as Pine Valley, Oakmont and Pebble Beach as the best golf courses designed by a first time architect. John designed Pikewood with fellow Greer executive Bob Gwynne.

John’s background has given him strongly held West Virginia values based on faith, hard work and family. He advocates less government intrusion into our lives and more personal freedom. He remains committed to providing a level playing field and promotes fair competition as essential ingredients to a vibrant, prosperous and growing America.

In 2010 more than 230,000 West Virginians stood with John Raese in opposition to Washington’s take over of our freedoms, fortunes and futures. They backed John’s commitment to both fiscal and personal responsibility.

John Raese is a businessman, a family man and – first and foremost – a West Virginian.