Weekly West Virginia “Battle Royale” Senate Primary Update

Attempts to shield financial disclosures, outside group fundraising, and name-calling: here’s what you might have missed this week in West Virginia’s “messy,” “costly,” and “bruising intraparty fight:” 

• The DSCC launched a new website, WhatIsJimJusticeHiding.com, that highlights reporting on Justice’s refusal to release his work schedule and financial documents, questions about his stamina and well-being that have been raised by West Virginia media outlets, and the barrage of financial scandals that his primary opponent Alex Mooney is already attacking him over. 

• Outside spending promises to heat up with the Club for Growth Action and Protect Freedom PAC raising $13.55 million to support Mooney’s campaign. This follows previous reporting that West Virginia is a “major front” in the multi-million dollar “looming proxy war” between national Republicans — who are backing Justice — and the Club for Growth — who endorsed Mooney.
  
  
• Mooney doubled down on his new nickname for Justice: “The King of Scandals,” attacking Justice’s “liberal track record” on his campaign’s website, “PhonyJustice.com.” In support of Mooney, Club for Growth president David McIntosh called Justice a “big government RINO.”

• Justice continues to face security over his barrage of financial scandals, with new reporting this week highlighting 20+ Justice-owned companies “missed several payments in a row” in a lawsuit seeking millions in unpaid penalties and fines over unsafe working conditions at his coal mines.