2024 West Virginia Voter Guide Footnotes
1.) Candidate Website, Governor WV Press Release – “Gov. Jim Justice held a ceremony today to officially sign HB 2526, the largest tax cut in West Virginia history. The bill contains provisions for additional annual personal income tax rate cuts in future years beginning as early as 2025 to the extent that actual State revenue growth exceeds consumer inflation. 2024: https://governor.wv.gov/News/press-releases/2023/Pages/Gov.-Justice-signs-largest-tax-cut-in-West-Virginia-history-into-law.aspx#:~:text=Jim%20Justice%20held%20a%20ceremony,Justice%20said.
Jim Justice, Twitter/X – “President Trump highlighted key issues in last night’s debate essential for getting our country back on track. Kamala Harris will continue America’s decline with higher taxes, inflation, more regulations, worsening border issues, and weak leadership around the world.” 9/11/2024: https://x.com/jimjusticewv/status/1833960314037325839
Jim Justice, Twitter/X – “Joe Biden spent 2023 misleading Americans about the state of the economy. We see the consequences of high prices and inflation from Bidenomics everywhere. In the U.S. Senate, I will work with President Trump to reverse Bidenomics and get the economy growing again.” 1/5/2024: https://x.com/jimjusticewv/status/1743353098783932751
Jim Justice, Twitter/X – “We have cut taxes, and our West Virginia economy has prospered as a result. In Washington, I will fight to cut taxes and alleviate the burden families face every day because of the failed policies of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.” 9/23/2024: https://x.com/jimjusticewv/status/1838237542514098522
Jim Justice, Twitter/X – “With Kamala Harris and Tim Walz at the helm, we will see increased government overreach, higher taxes, and more regulations stifling economic growth. West Virginia families cannot afford four more years of this radical leftist agenda that is setting our nation back.” 8/12/2024: https://x.com/jimjusticewv/status/1823041218357453188
Jim Justice, Twitter/X – “Joe Biden believes the New Green Deal is ‘a crucial framework’ for energy, which means less coal, oil, and gas jobs in West Virginia.” 10/14/2020:
https://x.com/JimJusticeWV/status/1316453403971727362
2.) Candidate Website, Elliott for US Senate – “Healthcare for All: My mission in the Senate will be to spearhead policies that expand Medicaid, support rural hospitals, and bring down prescription drug costs. Let’s unite to deliver a healthcare system that is as resilient and enduring as the people it serves.” 2024: https://elliottforwv.com/issues/
Candidate Website, Elliott for US Senate – “Taxpayer funded childcare. My mission in the Senate will be to advocate for comprehensive childcare solutions that support our families, fortify our workforce, and foster our future.” 2024: https://elliottforwv.com/issues/
3.) Candidate Website, Office of Governor – “In response to a letter requesting aid from Texas Governor Greg Abbott, I have approved the deployment of members of the West Virginia National Guard to help secure our border…” 5/21/2023: https://governor.wv.gov/News/press-releases/2023/Pages/-Gov.-Justice-authorizes-West-Virginia-National-Guard-deployment-to-Southern-Border.aspx
WV Legislature – Signed into law HB 2008 – Requiring local entities to enforce immigration laws 2023:https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2008&year=2023&sessiontype=RS
Article, The Intelligencer “The West Virginia Legislature passed a similar law during the 2023 session that ended in March. House Bill 2008 was signed by Gov. Jim Justice on March 29. HB 2008 requires local entities to enforce federal immigration laws. The amendment prohibits state funds from going to local governments, state agencies, or other public entities in non-compliance. Local officials could also be removed from office for non-compliance.” 4/14/2023: https://www.theintelligencer.net/news/top-headlines/2023/04/capito-co-sponsoring-bill-to-ban-sanctuary-cities/
WATCH: WV State of the State Address – “I do stand like a rock with our President in regard to things that he stands for like legal and I say LEGAL immigration. I absolutely believe that sanctuary cities do not have a place here in West Virginia and I hope and pray they never come.” @12:41 1/8/2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwILu8ib8SM
4.) WATCH: YouTube Video – “We should be looking for ways to increase legal immigration. Not only to actually grow our population in the state… if you want to increase the Social Security trust fund, you get more people working paying that FICA tax as employees. As legal employees… We’ve made it too hard for folks to become legal immigrants. So people are trying to get through the border” @ 43:18 (This video has been scrubbed from YouTube but we have a screen recording) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvT6wJBM460
Glenn Elliott for Senate – Facebook, “With so much of our collective discourse on immigration tainted by fear, nationalism, and even racism, it cannot be emphasized enough just how much of a positive economic impact immigration can have in our communities. This article does a good job explaining the disproportionate economic benefits associated with the relatively low levels of immigration into West Virginia. (This post has been scrubbed by Facebook but we have screenshots) 8/25/2020: https://www.facebook.com/share/787KREz5X36UaTNV/
Article, Fox5 Washington DC – “Elliott also said he supports a path to citizenship for undocumented workers, which would help get more people paying into social security, in turn strengthening that program which is a key issue among West Virginians,” he said.” 9/4/2024:
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/west-virginias-senate-race-jim-justice-glenn-elliott
5.) Candidate Website, “Governor Justice believes we need an all-of-the-above energy program that creates American jobs and moves us toward energy independence. It’s not only an economic issue but a matter of national security.” 2024: https://jimjusticewv.com/issue/energy/
Jim Justice, Twitter/X – “I’ll be a pro-American energy U.S. Senator. Prioritizing energy independence with West Virginia coal, oil, and natural gas is paramount for America’s energy policy and security. I’ll advocate for American energy independence using West Virginia’s energy resources in the Senate” 5/4/2024: https://twitter.com/JimJusticeWV/status/1764706735334285448
Governor Website, Press Release, “Gov. Jim Justice today announced that his administration has entered into an agreement with the China Energy Investment Corporation for them to invest up to $83.7 billion on a number of shale gas development and chemical manufacturing projects in West Virginia.” 11/9/2017:
Jim Justice, Twitter/X – “Democrats have destroyed the coal industry in the state of West Virginia and all across this country. At the end of the day, we cannot survive without fossil fuels, and America needs once again to prioritize energy independence.”7/31/2024: https://x.com/jimjusticewv/status/1818668696497279122
Jim Justice, Twitter/X – “President Trump secured our Southern Border, built a strong and prosperous economy, and supported West Virginia coal, gas, and oil to achieve American energy independence” 5/10/2023: https://x.com/jimjusticewv/status/1656411516218867715
Jim Justice, Twitter/X – “Joe Biden says he’s going to shut our coal plants down. Not on my watch. This country needs to be energy independent in every single, solitary way.” 11/5/2022:
https://x.com/jimjusticewv/status/1588870509961547776
Article, The Dominion Post – “Justice said, “The bottom line is this country does not have an energy policy…” It’s preposterous to say we can do without fossil fuels. And, he said, we need to lead the world in energy production. Revenue from that would help make a dent in the $35.4 trillion national debt, and countries that have an adequate energy supply benefit in every way.” 9//17/2024: https://archive.ph/EgQ3V
Jim Justice, Twitter/X – “Kamala Harris said, “I am in favor of banning fracking,” which means eliminating our oil and gas jobs in West Virginia.” 10/14/2020:
https://x.com/JimJusticeWV/status/1316453405511090177
6.) Article, The Dominion Post – “He said we need to be embracing an all-of the-above energy policy. West Virginia has geothermal, hydrogen wind and solar that aren’t fully being exploited. “The future’s going to happen whether we’re along with it or not. We need to be prepared and diversify now and be made whole for all the sacrifices the state has made.” 9/17/2024: https://archive.ph/EgQ3V
7.) WATCH: Face The Nation Video – “No chance. No chance…the bottom line of the whole thing is just this…I truly believe that the mandates only divide us and only divide us more. From the standpoint of mandates, I don’t believe in imposing upon our freedoms over and over and over…” @4:31 10/3/2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqS3uYNltQI
Governor Website, Office of Governor Press Release – “‘We understand that the Supreme Court has ruled that this mandate can go into effect, but it is putting an additional level of strain on our rural hospitals that is just destroying us,” Gov. Justice said. It’s just going to make it tougher and tougher for us to provide care in our rural hospitals. “So I am joining the governor of Virginia, requesting a waiver for rural hospitals to not have to abide by this mandate,” 1/31/2022: https://governor.wv.gov/News/press-releases/2022/Pages/COVID-19-UPDATE-Governor-Justice-announces-WV-to-request-waiver-from-federal-vaccine-mandate-for-rural-healthcare-workers.aspx
Article, The Intelligencer – “West Virginia businesses have the right to mandate employee COVID vaccinations, but both medical and religious exemptions must be respected, according to Gov. Jim Justice. “That is the (federal) law of the land,” Justice told state media during a virtual briefing Wednesday.” 10/14/2021: https://archive.ph/Xi1LX
Article, Ogletree Deakins – “On October 22, 2021, Governor Justice approved House Bill (HB) 335, which addresses COVID-19 immunization requirements for employment in the public and private sectors. The West Virginia Legislature passed HB 335 last month by a vote of 68–30 in the House of Delegates and by a narrow vote of 17–16 in the Senate. The legislation permits an eligible employee or prospective employee to be exempted from having to comply with a COVID-19 vaccination mandate of a covered employer as a condition of continued employment.” 11/8/2021:
WV Legislature – Signed as Governor H.B.335 – AN ACT to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §16-3-4b, relating to COVID-19 immunizations requirements for employment in the public and private sectors; providing for exemptions…” 2021:
https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?year=2021&sessiontype=3X&input=335
8.) Jim Justice, Twitter/X – “Today, I will sign the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act into law…I will always defend the right to life of every unborn child.” 3/2/2020: https://x.com/jimjusticewv/status/1234487673038962689
WV Legislature – Signed as Governor H.B.4007 – AN ACT to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, relating to creating the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act generally; defining terms requiring medical practitioners to use the same degree of reasonable medical judgment to preserve the life of a fetus which is born alive as would be used in a live non-abortion birth of the same gestational age. 2020:
https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?year=2020&sessiontype=RS&input=4007
9.) Article, The Intelligencer – Justice signed House Bill 3293 following the 2021 legislative session. That bill prohibited transgender girls and women from playing secondary school and collegiate girls and women’s sports. 1/29/2024:
WV Legislature – Signed as governor H.B.3293 – AN ACT to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931 relating to designation of athletic teams or sports sponsored by any public secondary school or state institution of higher education according to biological sex; providing legislative findings; defining “biological sex”, “female”, and “male”; providing for designation of athletic teams as “males, men, or boys”, “females, women, or girls”, or “coed or mixed”; prohibiting biological males from participating on athletic teams or sports designated for biological females where competitive skill. 2021:
10.) Glenn Elliott for Senate – Facebook – “We do need to ensure fairness in women’s sports.” 1/29/2024: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/TNs5XnSuUcpnAcPt/?mibextid=xfxF2i
11.) Candidate Website, Jim Justice US Senate – “I applaud the Supreme Court’s courageous decision today. I’ve said many times that I very proudly stand for life and I am rock-solid against abortion, and I believe that every human life is a miracle worth protecting.” 2023: https://jimjusticewv.com/issue/pro-life-champion/
Jim Justice, Twitter/X – I very proudly stand for life, and I am rock-solid against abortion, and I believe every human life is a miracle worth protecting. In December, @WV4Life presented me with a certificate for signing more pro-life bills than any Governor in state history.” 2/14/2023: https://x.com/jimjusticewv/status/1625487508078477320
12.) Candidate Website, Glenn Elliott US Senate – “In the Senate, I will steadfastly advocate for legislation that protects these rights and restores the balanced framework that Roe v. Wade provided, ensuring that reproductive healthcare remains a decision between a woman and her doctor.” 2024: https://elliottforwv.com/issues/
Article, The Dominion Post – “I’ve always believed that women need to have their reproductive rights protected,” he said. Roe v Wade offered the right balance, though it needs some tweaking.” 7/13/2024:https://archive.ph/Ci3Wv
13.) Jim Justice, Facebook – “Extremists are pushing divisive curriculum on our students. I pushed back against these efforts in West Virginia and enacted education freedom for students and parents. As our Senator, I will fight to return power to the states and prioritize local control in education.”
Jim Justice, Twitter/X – “We have to protect our kids. I signed a bill to protect the health and well-being of West Virginia children by banning hormone therapy, puberty blockers, and gender-changing surgery for kids.” 4/25/2023: https://x.com/jimjusticewv/status/1651039642630905856
WV Legislature – Signed as Governor H.B.2972 – A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new article, designated §16-11A-1 and §16-11A-2, all relating to the restriction of public universities or university associated healthcare facilities from performing gender reassignment surgeries or gender affirming care upon minors. 1/24/2023:
WATCH: Jim Justice WV, Twitter/X – “Keep radical woke politics out of our kids’ classrooms. @1:45 6/19/2023: https://x.com/jimjusticewv/status/1670943818860961799
14.) WV Legislature – Signed as Governor H.B.3042 – AN ACT to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new article, designated §35-1A-1, all relating to forbidding excessive government limitations on exercise of religion; forbidding government from treating religious conduct more restrictively than any conduct of reasonably comparable risk: 2023:
https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?year=2023&sessiontype=RS&input=3042
Article, Ogletree Deakins – “On October 22, 2021, Governor Justice approved House Bill (HB) 335, which addresses COVID-19 immunization requirements for employment in the public and private sectors. The legislation permits an eligible employee or prospective employee to be exempted from having to comply with a COVID-19 vaccination mandate of a covered employer as a condition of continued employment or hire by presenting: 11/8/2021: https://ogletree.com/insights-resources/blog-posts/west-virginia-governor-approves-medical-and-religious-exemptions-from-covid-19-vaccination-mandates/
15.) Article, The Intelligencer – “The state legislation – House Bill 3042 – has already passed both chambers of the West Virginia Legislature and is awaiting the governor’s signature. The bill provides additional religious protections against government interference. He (Elliott) confirmed… that he would have voted “110%” to pass the city’s resolution opposing the bill and encouraging Gov. Jim Justice to veto it. Instead, the [resolution] failed with a tie.” 3/8/2023: https://archive.ph/Xi1LX
16.) Article, MetroNews – “In 2021, Governor Justice signed the “West Virginia 2nd Amendment Preservation and Anti-Federal Commandeering Act” to say federal gun policy could not encroach in the state’s policies. West Virginia’s law describes red flag policies as “an anathema to law-abiding West Virginians who cherish their natural rights and liberties.'” 6/2/2022: https://wvmetronews.com/2022/06/06/justice-says-no-to-red-flag-law-in-west-virginia/
Article, Office of Governor Jim Justice Press Release – Gov. Justice signs bill to strengthen 2nd Amendment protections in West Virginia 3/1/2023: https://governor.wv.gov/News/press-releases/2023/Pages/Gov.-Justice-signs-bill-to-strengthen-2nd-Amendment-protections-in-West-Virginia.aspx
Article, WTO9 FOX News – “To have an assault weapon’s ban in this country, we don’t need that.” 5/31/2022: https://wtov9.com/news/local/justice-says-assault-weapons-ban-not-needed
17.) Jim Justice, Twitter/X – America must stand firm with Israel, our greatest ally in the Middle East, against these unprovoked attacks by Iran. All Americans should pray for our American leaders, Israel, and all our friends in the Jewish community.” 4/13/2024: https://x.com/jimjusticewv/status/1779269466481737979
18.) Candidate Website, – Jim Justice US Senate – “Jim Justice will fight the radical left’s efforts to have a complete government takeover of health care and have bureaucrats between patients and their doctors.” 2023: https://jimjusticewv.com/issue/health-care/
19.) Candidate Website, Glenn Elliott US Senate – “HEALTHCARE FOR ALL: My mission in the Senate will be to spearhead policies that expand Medicaid, support rural hospitals, and bring down prescription drug costs. Let’s unite to deliver a healthcare system that is as resilient and enduring as the people it serves.” 2024: https://www.elliottforwv.com/issues/
Article, The Dominion Post – “We have too many West Virginians who aren’t able to get affordable healthcare on their own.” The Affordable Care Act is a step in the right direction, but it doesn’t go far enough, he said…Letting the private markets alone do this is going to lead to very unfair outcomes for people at the lower end of the spectrum,” he said. “We’re not ready for a single-payer system but we need to gradually transition to a place where fewer and fewer people fall between the cracks.” 7/13/2024: https://archive.ph/Ci3Wv