No Delegate Run.

I have decided against another run this cycle for the House of Delegates, though it appears Delegate Campbell (D-Greenbrier) will not seek re-election, the crowded field and the distaste in my mouth currently are some of the reasons I have opted to pass-up this pristine opportunity.

I have been busy doing other things which I have been quite dedicated to; such as working with the Voter Freedom Commission on getting Voter Initiatives legal in West Virginia (currently, only the Legislature can put something on the ballot, while 38 other states have have initiatives added by having 5% of registered voters petition.)

Faces of Coal - advocating leveling the current 3-to-1 ratio for strip mining permits over underground permits.

Sierra Club - No surprise here, trying to keep Consol OUT of the Greenbrier Valley and away from the Marcellus Shale Natural Gas reserves. Advocating Algae Refineries instead. Why? A gas well is temporary, will have 3-5 employees, whereas an Algae Refinery is permanent, hiring 50-100 workers. You be the judge on which we should be trying to get.

Lewisburg Annexation of Ronceverte- a long shot, but Ronceverte's Comission and Government is dysfunctional and corrupt, and would benefit from Lewisburg taking over the small town, a state-wide notorious cop trap. This annexation would add 3,500 people to Lewisburg's population, effectively doubling the size of the city and doubling business development. We'll decide what to do with traffic at some point.

Personal Life - this one is hectic, alot going on on the home front has kept me really busy.

Personal Issues- I have a bad distaste for how things went the last cycle. I quickly became a foe of the "Good Ol Boy Network" the AFL-CIO Union didn't take me seriously. Though I done MUCH better than anticipated in the Primary in 2010, the actual numbers are kinda messed up:

--Metro News declared me the winner, then retracted.

--Greenbrier County said I had amassed 876 votes, after a recount found they counted absentee and provisional ballots twice.

--The FEC has me down at 1,209 votes effectively tying the primary.

So who really knows?