While a change in the election law may be at hand to fill the seat of the late Senator Byrd I would like to urge “The Incumbent Protection Act” be amended.  That is my name for how vacancies in nominations are filled (Section 3-5-19). Current law says if no one files...

Many of us in the political business have been consulting the election laws of West Virginia in recent days.  Reading Section 3-10-3 leaves you wondering where this concept originated.  Political columnist Phil Kabler for The Sunday Gazette-Mail took time last week to...

Political junkies are going to love 2010…..looks like we are moving toward a change in election law…..an election to replace the late Senator Robert C. Byrd…..which could then result in a special election for Governor. Republicans are quiet…..but John Raese is a name...

Many readers of phillipsbillboard do not read The Charleston Gazette on a daily basis nor desire to.  There is an excellent historic perspective prepared by The Associated Press on appointees being named to vacant U. S. Senate seats in West Virginia. It could explain...

Governor Manchin kept his word…..he will not go to the Senate but remain in office as promised for his full term…..but the Governor got a little help from SOS Natalie Tennant…..she says the law does not require a special election to fill the Byrd seat…..wonder if she...

2010 elections will see Democrats spend $50 million to focus on Obama’s minority and young voters…..want to bet this is the first poll for 2012…..to see if surge voters will return to help re-elect Obama. 1st District congressional candidate David McKinley needs to...

Good Saturday morning.  No weekend off for Political Tidbits. Breaking last night…..President Obama said some members of Congress should share the blame for the Gulf Oil spill…..this was in an exclusive interview with political writer Roger Simons…..look for more over...

Is there a woman Governor in WV’s future…..they carried the day across the country on Tuesday…..what about Betty Ireland…..Gayle Manchin…..Shelley Moore Capito…..Natalie Tennant……don’t count any of them out.  Charleston Judge Mary Stanley was in Washington to help...

Governor Romney conducts a leadership seminar in USA Today.  When it comes to a turnaround his record speaks for itself.  This is a piece that ought to be shared.

Mitch Daniels Gov of Indiana is testing 2012 waters…..a high ticket reception and dinner is set for June 15…..at the Willard Hotel no less…..Daniels was COS for Senator Lugar when I first met him…..cleared the intergovernmental waters for Ronald Reagan and Bush 43...