Had Mr. Justice not stepped up, these mines would have stayed closed, back taxes would not have been paid, and UMWA pensioners would have been left in the cold. The workforce was facing deep cuts in jobs and benefits. Immediately after purchasing The Greenbrier, Jim Justice reversed many of the benefit cuts and invested in renovations and expansions. As governor, he wants to do everything possible to put West Virginia in a positive light.
Governor Justice thinks big. Open to West Virginia. The Greenbrier is where Arnie got his first professional check and will be where he designed his last course. Since he has been President of Beckley Little League. His participation has helped the program expand to over 1, kids playing on 80 teams.
He has coached basketball teams of all ages for the past 36 years and is currently the head girls and boys basketball coach at Greenbrier East High School in Lewisburg, WV. On November 29, , Jim was honored when he coached his 1,th career win in basketball. The Classic was moved to Beckley and has enjoyed tremendous success by awarding hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarships and direct support to participating schools.
Giving back to the community is at the core of who the governor is. In May , Jim announced his campaign to seek the office of governor of West Virginia. After 19 months on the campaign trail sharing his vision for transforming West Virginia, Jim was elected the 36th governor of West Virginia.
He won with a broad coalition of support from Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. Since the attorney general and secretary of state were Republicans , this made West Virginia the 23rd state under a Republican triplex. This also meant that West Virginia became the 21st state where Republicans held a triplex and trifecta. From , in West Virginia there were Democratic governors in office for 18 years, including the last 13, while there were Republican governors in office for four years.
West Virginia is one of seven states that were run by a Democratic governor for more than 80 percent of the years between West Virginia was under Democratic trifectas for the final 13 years. Across the country, there were years of Democratic governors Over the course of the year study, state governments became increasingly more partisan.
At the outset of the study period , 18 of the 49 states with partisan legislatures had single-party trifectas and 31 states had divided governments. In , only 13 states had divided governments, while single-party trifectas held sway in 36 states, the most in the 22 years studied.
The chart below depicts the partisanship of West Virginia state government and the state's SQLI ranking for the years studied. For the SQLI, the states were ranked from , with 1 being the best and 50 the worst. West Virginia never finished higher than 48th in any year of the study. Governor of West Virginia News Feed. What's on my ballot? Elections in How to vote How to run for office Ballot measures.
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