CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) – As always in an election year, the Ripley Fourth of July Parade was packed with candidates running for office, including the Democratic and Republican candidates for governor of West Virginia.
Both Attorney General Patrick Morrisey (R) and Huntington Mayor Steve Williams (D) were represented by vehicles in the Ripley parade, shaking hands and talking with voters to persuade them to vote for them.
“We are setting a course, a model for how state government should be run. Our office has always been run that way. We’re trying to run it like a Swiss watch, and I think it’s so important that we do the right thing and West Virginia will have a strong, transformational government,” said Attorney General Patrick Morrisey (R), the candidate for governor of West Virginia.
“Well, I know how to run a city just like Mayor Rader can in Ripley. It’s time West Virginia got a governor who was a mayor himself,” said Mayor Steve Williams (D), the nominee for West Virginia governor.
Each candidate says they will run on their track record: how they have tried to deal with the opioid epidemic and how they will continue to deal with it if elected governor.
Both men are running to succeed Republican Governor Jim Justice, who is running for the U.S. Senate due to term limits.
