Delegates bewildered over veto
Delegate Joe Statler was at an education conference out of state when he heard the governor vetoed a bill intended to provide $2 million support groundbreaking research at West Virginia University’s Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute. Statler, R-Monongalia, was gobsmacked. “You talk about something that caught me completely off guard,” he said. His colleague, Delegate John Williams, heard about the veto by text message. “I thought that it was a joke because I was so shocked by it,” said Williams, D-Monongalia. “When you think about the applications of this ...