CHARLESTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Daniel Hall said he switched to the Republican party Wednesday, a move that will help the GOP secure a majority in the upper chamber of the West Virginia Legislature.
Driven by backlash against President Barack Obama, West Virginia voters ended eight decades of Democratic rule in the Legislature on Tuesday. They dumped Democrats from the state House of Delegates and deadlocked the Senate.
Hall quickly broke the Senate tie. The Wyoming County lawmaker confirmed his party change with The Associated Press on Wednesday evening.
For Republicans, it’s the first real chance to govern the Legislature since the 1930s.
Toss in Democratic Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, and West Virginia’s state lawmaking could be pretty jumbled come January.
“What you see occurring now has not occurred during the lives of anyone else that is alive,” said House Speaker Tim Miley, D-Harrison.
So far, West Virginia Republicans only have a plan-in-the-making for their agenda.
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4 comments:
Smart man!!
I would think that guy would have a rough life, distrusted by Republicans, Democrats, and his constituents. But he already jumped sides once before.
He is nothing more than a spy for the dumbocrats.
Keep him out of ALL important meetings.
I had to be a Democrat when I lived in Florida 25 years ago as there was no GOP's competing to vote for in the primaries. I had to be a Dem in order to vote for the "Most likely to lose to the Republican" just to be able to make a difference!
When I got to Maryland, being a Democrat became such an embarrassment, I just had to abandon them.
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