Candidate Ejected From West Virginia House Floor for Listing Lawmakers Oil and Gas Donors

[CousinIT]

Her name is Lissa Lucas. And she's running for office! She's a Democrat running for the House of Delegates in the West Virginia's Seventh District. Support her if you can!

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/12/us/lissa-lucas-house-floor.html

John H. Shott, a West Virginia state lawmaker, did not appreciate when, during a public hearing on the House floor on Friday, a citizen began listing donations he and some of his colleagues had received from the oil and gas industry.

He asked her to stop, warning her that she would be out of order if she continued.

And when she ignored him, reading the name of the next politician who had accepted donations related to the bill under discussion, which would make it easier for oil and gas companies to drill on private land, he had her forcibly escorted out.

The citizen, Lissa Lucas, is a Democrat running for the House of Delegates in the state’s Seventh District. She arrived at the public hearing on Friday intending to talk about the delegates' donors.

“The people who are going to be speaking in favor of this bill are all going to be paid by the industry and the people who are going to be voting on this bill are also often paid by the industry,” she said.

She said that Delegate Charlotte R. Lane, one of the bill’s sponsors and a Republican, had received $10,000 from industry interests in past elections, a number corroborated by VoteSmart, a website that tracks campaign contributions.

[Dustlawyer]

1. This happens on EVERY vote in all state houses and in D.C.

When will we wake up to the fact that this is the root cause of most of our problems?