WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. -- Notes from the just-concluded state Chamber of Commerce Business Summit at The Greenbrier Resort:

Rep. Shelley Moore Capito expressed a thank-you for the outpouring of well-wishes for her father, former Gov. Arch Moore, who was recently released from the hospital for an undisclosed condition.

"I was telling someone the story about how I talked with him and told him I'm going to help him make some decisions," Capito recalled during her speech Thursday.  "I said, 'I'm going to work with you. We'll work together.' He said, 'OK, I understand why you're saying that.'

"I was getting up, leaving, thinking I had a victory, and he said, 'One last thing: You cannot veto me!'

"The bets are on him, I think," Capito said. "I think that's an indication he's feeling a little bit better."

During her presentation, Capito talked about several frustrations.

"An $800 billion stimulus package that doesn't result in jobs, which I didn't vote for, is a frustration," she said to a round of applause.

And she said: "The biggest zip code for job creation in my district is the state capitol."

"We have high unemployment in West Virginia and our energy industry is under attack by the administration in a regulatory sense and with cap and trade," Capito said. "[Senate Majority Leader] Harry Reid may try to move cap and trade in the lame-duck session after the election is over. We cannot allow that to happen."

Capito received a standing ovation at both the beginning and end of her speech.

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Perhaps no one in West Virginia was happier that Hurricane Earl missed Myrtle Beach than Ken Arndt.

Arndt, who works out of Charleston, is general manger of Frontier Communications Corp.'s Southeast Region. Frontier's service territory includes thousands of customers in Myrtle Beach, Durham, N.C., and the area south of Charlotte.

"If something were to come onshore at Myrtle Beach, it would have hurt us," he said. "That's a great relief," he said Thursday after learning that the hurricane would not directly hit the South Carolina coast.

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Political consultant, pollster and author Frank Luntz said the five highest personal priorities of the American people are: Fewer hassles, more choices, more money, more time and no worries.

He said men choose more money as their highest priority; women choose more time.

Luntz said there's a culture of commitment in West Virginia that exceeds other states. "The people in this state work hard," he said. "You need to communicate that to the outside world.

"Outside of here when people think of West Virginia, they think of coal," he said. "They don't realize there's a resource here in human commitment. A lot of people engage in a campaign to get people to come into their state for tourism. I urge you to engage in a campaign to show how hard people work here, how committed they are."

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Roger Dyer, a consultant on the Potomac-Appalachian Transmission Highline (PATH) project, said there are two counties in West Virginia that begin with an "O" -- Ohio and, as the people in Huntington say, "Out Wayne."

Reach George Hohmann at busin...@dailymail.com or 304-348-4836.