ICYMI: DSCC Launches Anti-Jim Justice Website [The Messenger]

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The Messenger: DSCC Launches Anti-Jim Justice Website
The website highlights all of the attacks Democrats — and Republican Rep. Alex Mooney — have been making against Justice
By Matt Holt
July 11, 2023

Key points:

• On Tuesday, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee launched a new website taking aim at West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice. 

• The website, WhatIsJimJusticeHiding.com… details the group’s lawsuit against Justice to obtain his schedule and financial documents and reporting about the West Virginia governor’s various financial entanglements. 

• It also highlights the attacks that Rep. Alex Mooney, Justice’s primary challenger, has been levying against him. 

• “As this primary intensifies, Justice won’t be able to hide from the looming questions that are being raised about his absence on the job, his shady finances and his growing additional scandals,” said DSCC spokesperson Amanda Sherman Baity.

• In May, the DSCC sued Justice’s office, demanding that he release his official from January 2017 to present day. The suit came after Justice’s office did not comply to the DSCC’s requests under the Freedom of Information Act. 

• And in June, Justice was ordered to provide information to a Pennsylvania coal exporter that was seeking $1.9 million owed by Justice and one of his coal companies. His lawyers argued that political opponents were seeking to obtain sensitive information that could influence the outcome of the race. The judge rejected those claims. The site also highlights Justice’s recent gallbladder surgery, which raised questions about his physical fitness for office. 

• Democrats are also elevating Mooney’s attacks against Justice. Mooney has dubbed Justice “the king of scandals” and has accused Justice of “hiding his finances” in order to cover up debts to foreign counties like China or Russia. 

• Recently, Mooney campaigned with Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul in Huntingdon. Paul said Justice would be a member of the “big government” wing of the Republican conference, asserting that Mooney would be focused on reigning in the national debt. Mooney has the endorsement of three senators—Paul, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, and Utah Sen. Mike Lee. 

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