March 25, 2006               

WV AFL-CIO State COPE Candidate Endorsements for the May 9th Primary Election

The West Virginia AFL-CIO’s State COPE Committee held their Candidate endorsement meeting and Congressional interviews for the May 9th Primary Election at the Charleston Civic Center on March 25, 2006.  The endorsements are as follows:

UNITED STATES SENATE

Robert C. Byrd

U. S.  HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE

1st District Alan B. Mollohan; 2nd District Mark Hunt; 3rd District Nick Joe Rahall, II

SENATE

1st District Edwin J. Bowman; 2nd District Larry J. Edgell; 4th District Jim Lees; 6th District H. Truman Chafin; 7th District Josh Stowers; 8th District Erik Wells; 10th District Frederick L. Parker; 11th District C. Randy White; 12th District Joseph Minard; 17th District Brooks McCabe, Jr.;

HOUSE OF DELEGATES

1st District Joe Delong; 2nd District Jack Yost; 3rd District Orphy Klempa; 4th District Kenneth Tucker; 7th District John Bumgardner; 9th District Jim Marion; 10th District John Ellem, Steven D. Whitehair, Sr.; 13th District Dale F. Martin, Brady R. Paxton; 14th District Gene Estel; 15th District Jim Morgan, Matthew James Woelfel, Pam Carden; 16th District Dale Stephens; 17th District Don Perdue, Richard Thompson; 18th District Larry W. Barker; 19th District Jeff Eldridge, Lidella Wilson Hrutkay, Ronnie Ooten, Ralph Rodighiero; 21st District Harry Keith White; 22nd District Mike Burdiss; 23rd District Clifton Moore; 24th District Molly Lohr-Robinette; 25th District Anita Skeens Caldwell, Paige Flanigan; 27th District Melvin R. “Mell” Kessler, Kevin L. Maynus, Clyde D McKnight Jr.; 28th District Tommy Scarles, Ray Canterbury; 29th District Tom Louisos; 30th District Bob T. Anderson, Ted Boettner, Bonnie Brown, Nancy Guthrie, Barbara Hatfield, Sharon Spencer, Danny Wells; 31st District Carrie Webster; 34th District Brent Boggs; 35th District Sam Argento; 36th District JoeTalbott; 39th District Bill Hamilton; 40th District Mary M. Poling; 41st District Anthony J. Barberio, Ron Fragale, Richard J. Iaquinto, Tim Miley; 43rd District Mike Caputo, Linda Longstreth, Tim Manchin; 44th District Barbara Fleischuer, Charlene Marshall, Alex Shook; 46th District Chris Cooper; 50th District Ruth Rowan; 53rd District Jerry Burton; 54th District Walter Duke; 58th District Locke Wysong.