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October 7, 2008
Clinton to endorse Barth for the House Friday at UC

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Sen. Hillary Clinton is returning to West Virginia for a campaign stop, this time to endorse fellow Democrat Anne Barth.

The former first lady is scheduled to stump for Barth on Friday at the University of Charleston. The rally is free and open to the public.

Clinton last visited West Virginia just before her overwhelming win in the state's May presidential primary.

Barth is challenging Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, the only Republican in West Virginia's congressional delegation, in the 2nd Congressional District.

Several national political analysts have rated the 2nd District race as competitive, though Capito is favored.

Despite Clinton's victory in the state primary, Sen. Barack Obama captured the Democratic Party nomination and is fighting Republican Sen. John McCain for the presidency. Clinton contested the nomination to the end, but has since headlined several fundraisers and made several campaign appearances for Obama, as has her husband, former president Bill Clinton.

Tom Vogel, who heads Obama's presidential campaign in West Virginia, said he wasn't sure how much Clinton would stump for Obama during her visit.

"I know everywhere she goes she does campaign for Sen. Obama. I would hope that she would talk about and campaign for Sen. Obama when she's in town," he said, shortly after he learned for sure Monday afternoon that Clinton would be in Charleston on Friday.

"She's very popular," Vogel said. "I think she helps Anne Barth, I think she helps Barack Obama, I think she helps the whole Democratic ticket coming in."

Clinton will focus mostly on Barth, said Barth spokeswoman Talley Sergent, but will stump for Obama as well.

"She's been supporting Sen. Obama wherever she goes," Sergent said. "I don't think that's going to change here."

Barth was a longtime former aide to one of Clinton's Senate colleagues, Sen. Robert C. Byrd.

- FROM STAFF, WIRE REPORTS

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Posted By: One Citizen (11:32am 10-09-2008)
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Shelley Capito directly contradicted the expressed will of the WV legislature when in 2004 they had legislated to seek methods of negotiating lower prescription drug prices for all West Virginians. The Veterans Administration had already been successfully negotiating lower drug prices for veterans for years. Yet during the 110th Congress, Capito voted in lockstep with Bush's rubber stamping Repubs to defeat House Resolution 4 (HR 4).

On 1/18/07 she voted in lockstep time after time blocking fellow West Virginian Nick Rahall's efforts to repeal a huge corporate tax break that oil and gas firms had been getting since '04. In that series of votes, again, with her fellow Repubs, she clearly demonstrated her party's refusal to take that $13 billion to $15 billion in revenues the tax break repeal would've produced and set the money aside for appropriations that would go to renewable resources.

Why has she become a corporate-loving DC insider?

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Posted By: Anonymous (1:38pm 10-08-2008)
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"Something" tells you not to trust her?

Posted By: Anonymous (9:50am 10-08-2008)
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I am a democrat and I am not voting for Ann Barth. I saw her speak at a Union meeting - I wasnt impressed and something tells me not to trust her.

Posted By: Anonymous (8:14am 10-08-2008)
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Barth, if you really are what all of Capito and (R) Manchin's negative adds say you are, then you are worth voting for. Anyone who Capito and Manchin is against...I am for. I am JAMES DAVIS, a write-in Democrat for Governor and we need to reclaim our government and give it back to the people and we need to start bringing our state from the bottom of every bad list to the top, or above the top, of all the good lists . Manchin and Capito is part of the reason we are at the bottom and they will never allow us leave that position. Hang in there and do not let them put you under.

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