West Virginians say complaints to Congress are met with canned responses and answering machines
mountainstatespotlight.org
West Virginians say their calls, emails, and meetings with members of Congress rarely get thoughtful responses. Here’s what readers told us.

An overwhelming majority of West Virginia voters supported President Donald Trump and Republican representatives Sens. Shelley Moore Capito and Jim Justice, and Reps. Riley Moore and Carol Miller in the last election.

But in response to a Mountain State Spotlight request for readers to tell us about their experiences reaching out to those representatives, we heard from more than 100 people who said they mostly weren’t happy with the responses they got.

  • CMLVI@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Part of it is there was some very real backstabbing done by the Dems with Bernie and Hillary in 2016. He won literally every county in the state in 2016 and they sent super delegates to the Convention and gave the state to Hillary, 19-18. It doesn’t excuse selling out the country for spite, but there is a very real thing perpetrated on WV voters by Democratic supporters. And we used to be a sorta blue state, up until that time.