Weekly West Virginia “Battle Royale” Senate Primary Update

Billboards highlighting Justice’s efforts to hide his schedule and scandals, unpaid financial obligations, and an ongoing scandal over health issues: here’s what you might have missed last week in West Virginia’s “messy,” “costly,” and “bruising” GOP primary.

• The DSCC is launching billboards near Justice’s Greenbrier resort and the Kanawha County Courthouse — the courthouse presiding over the DSCC’s lawsuit against Justice’s office to demand the release of his official schedule or official calendar — encouraging West Virginians to visit WhatIsJimJusticeHiding.com to learn more about Justice’s efforts to hide information pertaining to his official schedule and his ongoing financial scandals. 

• New reporting details that Jim Justice and his coal companies are facing a new lawsuit for failing to uphold their agreement to pay over $3 million. Justice has “developed a reputation for” being a “deadbeat billionaire”: this is “only the most recent” in a “long history” of Jim Justice’s failure to meet his “financial and work safety obligations,” including public safety violations, unpaid fees and taxes, and millions of dollars in debt.

• “Justice’s ​​health has come under scrutiny.” A wave of new reporting from West Virginia outlets details that Justice “was forced to postpone” his scheduled events. This is only the most recent in a long history of “concerns” over the “string of health issues” that “have hounded Justice ever since he first took office” and “caused rumors to spread among lawmakers and others in the Capitol … that the governor would resign.” See the local headlines below: 

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