WHY IS JOE MANCHIN RUNNING YOUR CHILDREN OUT OF STATE?

It’s time to take a hard look at the real Joe Manchin, West Virginia. If you’re a parent or grandparent — and if you’re worried that your kids or grandkids won’t be able to find work in West Virginia — you won’t like what you see.

Joe Manchin’s bullies on the WVU Board of Governors are telling honest West Virginia teenagers they’re not welcome in their own home state — BECAUSE THE KIDS TOLD THE TRUTH.

In case you don’t know, Joe Manchin appoints and controls the WVU Board of Governors. And you’ve probably heard about the Manchin master’s degree scandal. Joe Manchin’s daughter makes $3 million a year working for an out-of-state drug company. Not long ago, a newspaper found out she’s been lying for 10 years about having a master’s degree. But Joe Manchin’s buddy Mike Garrison — Joe Manchin’s handpicked president of WVU — covered it up.

That’s right. They faked a master’s degree for Joe Manchin’s daughter. Independent investigators found out that they’d made up grades OUT OF THIN AIR to give Joe Manchin’s daughter a degree she never earned. And Joe Manchin’s daughter kept her $3 million a year, out of state job.

Then, believe it or not, the Manchin master’s degree scandal got even uglier. Some honest WVU students felt duty-bound to speak out against the dishonest things Manchin’s men were doing. And what thanks did they get?

Here’s what: Joe Manchin’s handpicked, grown-up bullies on the Board of Governors are telling those teenage kids to GET THE HELL OUT OF WEST VIRGINIA, FOREVER. They’re threatening these kids that they’ll never be able to work in West Virginia. Because those brave, honest students dared to speak truth to Joe Manchin’s absolutely corrupt power.

I can’t even begin to put into words how disgusting that is.

Joe Manchin’s thugs on the Board of Governors are a bunch of fifty-something crooks. They’re multimillionaires. They live in houses in South Hills and on Cheat Lake — huge houses like you and I will never set foot inside of.

Now think back to when you were 19 years old. You might have kids or grandkids around that age. At nineteen, you’re nothing but fragile dreams and paralyzing fears. Dreams of making a decent life for yourself in the place where you were born. West Virginia, for most of us. And fears that something will go wrong. That you’re not up to the task. That you don’t know the right people, or how to do what you need to do to succeed.

Now imagine — and this is no stretch for those of us not named Manchin or Goodwin or Garrison — that your parents raised you to do the right thing. To value honesty and integrity above all else. To take a stand when you see a crook doing something wrong. So when you find out your school gave a FAKE master’s degree to the daughter of the most powerful man in West Virginia — just because she’s a politically-connected multimillionaire — you speak up. You say it’s wrong and demand that the men responsible be held accountable.

Then a few days later, some slick-faced, fifty-year-old millionaire thug like Steve Goodwin or Parry Petroplus sends you a message. “Your dreams are dead, son.” Pack your bags and move on. You can’t stay in West Virginia. Joe Manchin’s men will make sure you NEVER find work here. So get the hell out and don’t come back.

You’re nineteen years old. One of the richest, most powerful men in West Virginia has just kicked you out of the state where generations of your family have lived and died. The state where, in all likelihood, your dad and granddad left to go to war and came back to raise a family. The state where you dreamed of raising your own kids, just like they did.

You know that the rich man can do what exactly he says he can. Because he’s a Manchin Man, and the Manchin Men own West Virginia. To the Manchins and the Goodwins, the generations worth of sweat and blood that your family’s poured into this soil don’t mean a damn thing. They’ll grind you under their heel just as casually as they take a piss. They’ve done it before. And so you have to leave home, just because you did the right thing. Because Joe Manchin’s men said you’re not welcome here any more—not if you speak up and say Joe Manchin’s daughter should have to earn her degree just like everyone else.

This isn’t fiction, Mom and Dad. This is dead-serious reality. This is the Real Joe Manchin. This is the Governor you voted for. Politico Joe thinks you’re just one more dumb hick. He tells you he wants to keep your kids here at home because he knows that’s what you want to hear. But the real Joe Manchin — his millionaire bully boys tell your kids to get the hell out of West Virginia the second they’re honest enough to call things like they see them. Because that’s the one sin that Joe Manchin can’t forgive: HONESTY.

Folks, this is your state just as much as it is Joe Manchin’s. So answer me this: what right do Joe Manchin and his millionaire bullies have to tell your kids they’re not welcome in West Virginia? Just because you raised your kids to tell the truth?

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If you don’t yet fully appreciate what Joe’s in for, fast forward to the Senate race four years from now. Joe will have real opponents then, opponents with millions to spend pounding this story and a dozen others like it into the head of every voter in West Virginia. And in all likelihood, Mike Garrison will still be sitting in Stewart Hall, a big, fat, living reminder that Joe Manchin’s multimillionaire board members threatened to ruin the lives of the honest kids who spoke up against the Manchin degree scandal. Wanna guess what the big-hitting GOP political consultants will do with that, when the stakes are a Senate seat in a state that hasn’t had a Republican senator since Ike was president?

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