Anne Barth is a breath of fresh air amid stagnant West Virginia politics. She's intelligent, informed, conscientious - and free from any hint of taint.
She spent 21 years as an aide to Sen. Robert C. Byrd, learning both West Virginia needs and crucial national issues. She shares the courageous opposition that Byrd voiced against President Bush's unnecessary Iraq war, even before it began. She says America was "misled" into the tragedy.
She supports universal medical insurance to cover all Americans, and opposes tax giveaways to U.S. corporations that send American jobs overseas.
Barth's father was a United Methodist minister, and she grew up in parsonages around the Mountain State. She earned bachelor's and master's degrees from West Virginia University. She once was executive director of the state Democratic Party. Her husband is Charleston lawyer Nick Barth, and their two daughters attend WVU.
In contrast, her Republican opponent in the Nov. 4 election has backed the Bush-Cheney agenda that has harmed America painfully and sent the national debt to monstrous heights. Rep. Shelley Capito, R-W.Va., still defends her vote to plunge into the Iraq war, even after all evidence shows that the invasion was based on phony grounds.
In 2000 and 2004, West Virginia was a "red" state supporting Bush, Cheney and Capito. But it will be a shame if the GOP ticket prevails again, after eight years of damage in Washington. It's time for a fresh start.
We urge voters of the 2nd Congressional District - a misshapen belt stretching all the way from Point Pleasant to the tip of the Eastern Panhandle - to choose Barth and bring much-needed change to Washington. We endorse her wholeheartedly.
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Especially when the person doing the suggesting is a liberal progressive who works for a organization whose sole purpose is to put out false and misleading information designed to achieve their liberal agenda.
When dealing with people like this, I have found if one wants to learn the truth, the best advice is to avoid any reference to any link this type of person provides and to search out the truth.
For instance, on the claim of an 89% voting record with Bush, that’s not true. Independent sources through the HOR web site verify that SMC’s voting record is 50% when compared to GWB. Considering both are Republican, I would say that is not bad, especially when you consider that BO has a voting record of over 90% when compared to ultra liberals like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
On 1/18/07 she voted in lockstep time after time attempting to block efforts introduced by fellow West Virginian Nick
Rahall (D WV-03) to repeal a huge corporate tax break that oil and gas firms had been getting since '04. In that series of votes, she (again with her fellow Greedy Oil Profiteers) clearly demonstrated her unwillingness to take the estimated $13 billion to $15 billion in revenues the tax break repeal would've produced and set the money aside for tax breaks and appropriations that would go to renewable energy sources
GIVE AWAY--TWICE--SHE WILL VOTE THE WAY THAT IS RIGHT FOR WV--NOT IN LOCK STEP WITH THE DEMS--BARTH IS A BYRD PUPPETT!