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Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:46 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:46
From CQPolitics:
West Virginia Democratic Rep. Alan B. Mollohan, who was unopposed in his last re-election campaign, has drawn a 2010 challenge from a Republican state legislator.
Republican state Sen. Clark Barnes said over the weekend that he will run against Mollohan, who since 1983 has represented the state’s 1st District in and around Wheeling and Morgantown.
Barnes told The Wheeling Intelligencer newspaper that “we need to go back to traditionalism.”
“As a traditionalist, I feel traditionalism incorporates fiscal responsibility and the understanding we shouldn’t spend more money than we have,” said Barnes, who was elected to the West Virginia Senate in 2004 and re-elected in 2008.