The race for the WV GOP Senate nomination to take on Senator Joe Manchin continues to heat up, but one leading candidate might have a tough time making it across the finish line.
Latest polling shows three candidates, Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, Businessman Don Blankenship, and Congressman Evan Jenkins in a three-way battle for the nomination.
A poll from Osage Research on March 13th showed Morrisey with a narrow lead over Blankenship, 24% to 23%, with Jenkins in tow at 17%.
Yet, Morrisey might have trouble winning over voters in the closing days of the race.
His wife, a Washington, DC lobbyist, has some damaging ties to Planned Parenthood, according to a report from the West Virginia Gazette-Mail:
A Washington, D.C., firm partly owned by the wife of West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey lobbies on Capitol Hill for Planned Parenthood, a group Morrisey and other Republicans have routinely used as a political punching bag.
Denise Henry Morrisey holds the second-largest ownership stake in Capitol Counsel, a high-powered lobbying shop that has represented Planned Parenthood’s opposition to federal legislation designed to defund the organization and prohibit taxpayer-funded abortions, federal records show. Last week, the U.S. House passed a bill that scraps the Affordable Care Act and defunds Planned Parenthood for a year.
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Planned Parenthood hired Capitol Counsel’s lobbyists in 2015 following the release of undercover videos by an anti-abortion group that accused Planned Parenthood of selling aborted fetuses’ organs and tissues.
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Planned Parenthood Federation of America has since paid Capitol Counsel $460,000, lobbying disclosures show. As a managing partner at Capitol Counsel, Denise Henry Morrisey holds a 15 percent stake in the lobbying firm, according to U.S. Justice Department records, and her LinkedIn biography lists her as the firm’s “owner.”
The report also notes that Denise Henry Morrisey’s firm was retained by Planned Parenthood to lobby against the nomination of President Trump’s lone Supreme Court nominee, and now Supreme Court Justice, Neil Gorsuch.
Considering West Virginia is a state President Trump beat Hillary Clinton by over 40%, we’re assured the voters there are looking to drain the swamp, not expand it.
Morrisey will have a tough time hanging onto his lead heading into the May 8th primary given his wife’s Planned Parenthood ties.
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