Weekly West Virginia “Battle Royale” Senate Primary Update

Attempts to shield financial disclosures, delinquent property taxes, financial and work safety violations, and name-calling: here’s what you might have missed this week in West Virginia’s “messy,” “costly,” and “bruising intraparty fight:” 

• Mooney doubled down on his new nickname for Justice: “The King of Scandals,” insisting that “unless he is planning to drop out of the senate race,” Justice “can’t brush off every investigation.”

• Mooney attacked Justice for being “involved in scandals left and right,” citing recent reporting that a judge found “no merit in Justice’s request to shield [his] financial disclosures” because of his U.S. Senate run. 

• Mooney called Justice a “deadbeat” who “cheated [West Virginia] communities out of hundreds of thousands of dollars,” citing recent reporting that details Justice’s failure to pay his property taxes.

• Ahead of Mooney’s campaign rally with Sen. Rand Paul, Paul jabbed Justice with Paul calling Justice a “Big Spender” who “support[ed] the massive spending or totalitarian emergency powers.”

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