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Republicans blast Manchin’s support for Reid as majority leader

By Andrew Restuccia | 11.16.10 | 2:00 pm | More from The Washington Independent

The National Republican Senatorial Committee is targeting newly sworn-in Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) for voting today to keep Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in his position as majority leader. The NRSC painted Reid as an “anti-coal” lawmaker who “strongly supports a job-killing cap-and-trade energy tax and has repeatedly attacked West Virginia’s More…

Midterm Wrapup: What the election means for energy and the environment

By Andrew Restuccia | 11.03.10 | 9:41 am | More from The Washington Independent

Here’s a quick recap of the midterm results from last night that have implications for energy/climate/environmental policy.
It was mostly bad news for House Democrats who voted for the chamber’s cap-and-trade bill. The two most stinging defeats were Rep. Rick Boucher More… (D-Va.), who worked furiously

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DC: Cap-and-trade foe Manchin wins, cap-and-trade fan Perriello loses

By Andrew Restuccia | 11.02.10 | 8:59 pm | More from The Washington Independent

Two other big results for the energy/climate crowd.
First, Gov. Joe Manchin (D) is projected to beat Republican John Raese in the West Virginia Senate race. Manchin campaigned heavily against cap-and-trade. In fact, in a now-infamous campaign ad More…, he actually shot the House climate bill.
Second, projections indicate that

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U.S. Chamber pens an op-ed for Joe Manchin

By Jesse Zwick | 10.26.10 | 3:31 pm | More from The Washington Independent

With all the public barbs being traded back and forth between the Chamber of Commerce and the Obama administration, it’s easy to forget that the Chamber is backing at least one Democrat this year in a pretty public way. In today’s Charleston Gazette, Chamber president Thomas Donohue explained once again More…

John-Raese

WV: Raese’s companies relied on government contracts

By Jesse Zwick | 10.25.10 | 9:57 am | More from The Washington Independent

With the Senate race in West Virginia between sitting Gov. Joe Manchin (D) and businessman John Raese in a virtual dead heat going into the final week, Manchin’s camp is touting an article More… in Sunday’s Charleston Gazette which calculates that Raese’s corporation, Greer Industries, benefited from about $32 million in

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What kind of Democrat would Joe Manchin be?

By Jesse Zwick | 10.19.10 | 9:11 am | More from The Washington Independent

During the U.S. Senate debate in Morgantown, W.Va., last night, Republican John Raese’s campaign kept me faithfully updated with emails pairing Gov. Joe Manchin’s (D) latest “rhetoric” with the “reality” of his past stances on various issues.
The emails told me that last night Manchin said “[Obama] is dead wrong More…

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WV Senate candidate Joe Manchin takes aim at cap-and-trade — literally

By Luke Johnson | 10.11.10 | 11:28 am

West Virginia governor and Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Joe Manchin released a new ad Monday with a script that would usually pass for a Republican candidate. More …

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DC: Raese attacks Manchin’s coal cred

By Jesse Zwick | 10.05.10 | 8:42 am | More from The Washington Independent

The local media in West Virginia are having a hard time stomaching the campaign ads (and national news coverage) of the suddenly competitive Senate race More… in their home state. Governor Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) might be a lot of things, they argue, but he’s no enemy of the coal industry —