Wealthy GOP Deadbeat Governor Running for Senate

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Gov. Jim Justice Faces Heavy Business Debts as He Seeks Senate Seat

The Justice companies have long had a reputation for not paying their debts. But that may be catching up to them.

www.nytimes.com

Jim Justice, the businessman-turned-politician governor of West Virginia, has been pursued in court for years by banks, governments, business partners and former employees for millions of dollars in unmet obligations.

And for a long time, Mr. Justice and his family’s companies have managed to stave off one threat after another with wily legal tactics notably at odds with the aw-shucks persona that has endeared him to so many West Virginians. On Tuesday, he is heavily favored to win the Republican Senate primary and cruise to victory in the general election, especially after the departure of the Democratic incumbent, Joe Manchin III.

But now, as he wraps up his second term as governor and campaigns for a seat in the U.S. Senate, things are looking dicier. Much like Donald J. Trump, with whom he is often compared — with whom he often compares himself — Mr. Justice has faced a barrage of costly judgments and legal setbacks.

And this time, there may be too many, some suspect, for Mr. Justice, 73, and his family to fend them all off.

 

[AlexB23]

Gov. Jim Justice Faces Heavy Business Debts as He Seeks Senate Seat

The Justice companies have long had a reputation for not paying their debts. But that may be catching up to them.

www.nytimes.com

I guess wealth will not do anything "justice" in the senate. Time for us to elect people who are middle class into congress, and who are closer to the center.

Yes, I had to make a pun.

 

[Pommer]

Gov. Jim Justice Faces Heavy Business Debts as He Seeks Senate Seat

The Justice companies have long had a reputation for not paying their debts. But that may be catching up to them.

www.nytimes.com

This is a career seat. Just don’t get your government hands on their Social Security and Medicare and every six years you show up for a re-election party!

 

[Pommer]

I guess wealth will not do anything "justice" in the senate. Time for us to elect people who are middle class into congress, and who are closer to the center.

Yes, I had to make a pun.

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are you saying it would be an injustice if Justice got in? :,)

 

[Handmaid for Jesus]

I guess wealth will not do anything "justice" in the senate. Time for us to elect people who are middle class into congress, and who are closer to the center.

Yes, I had to make a pun.

I think that was a founding principle.

 

[AlexB23]

I think that was a founding principle.

Yes, it was. We have strayed so far from that founding principle. The Founding Fathers are rolling in their graves right now, cos of the hyperpartisan society of today.

 

[AlexB23]

…
are you saying it would be an injustice if Justice got in? :,)

Yep. That is exactly what I was saying, while leaving it open ended enough.