3d ago

Many West Virginians say they can’t reach their members of Congress

West Virginians say complaints to Congress are met with canned responses and answering machines

An overwhelming majority of West Virginia voters supported President Donald Trump and Republican representatives Sens. Shelley Moore Capito and Jim Justice, and Reps. Riley Moore and Carol Miller in the last election.

But in response to a Mountain State Spotlight request for readers to tell us about their experiences reaching out to those representatives, we heard from more than 100 people who said they mostly weren’t happy with the responses they got.

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3d ago

Many West Virginians say they can’t reach their members of Congress

mountainstatespotlight.org /2025/08/07/congress-responses-reader-replies/

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Thank God, this was the last time you guys ever have to vote... Oh! Wait!
Nazis don't want to hear from you.
- But they said please!
They don’t need real voters anymore. They will buy votes, gerrymander and mediabomb until they get the desired result. Why should they return the calls of those plebs?
Get fukt.
West Virginia was one of the reddest states last election, yet 28% voted Harris.
Those people are suffering on a scale most Americans don't experience. Of course they're going for the "brick through the wall" option. Think you're better? Are you there?
If you want to judge, take an hour and look inside West Virginia. Got the time to judge? I've watched, I've cried. You? No? Then go fuck yourself.
- I'm sure they had very understandable reasons for why it was very attractive to them to cast a vote helping to suck the entire rest of the nation (along with themselves) into a fascist regime hellbent on dismantling our government and creating the sort of dystopian hellhole normally reserved for comic book fiction. (and not a lick of bigotry)
  Doesn't matter now, I, and probably you unless you are uncommonly young even for Lemmy, will die of old age before we've made the U-turn from what they have enabled, if we've even begun it at that point. My kids lives are irrevocably impacted by what has been empowered by Trump voters, and so are yours (if you have or will have them), and so are those of the Trump voters.
  And how many years have they been red? You'd think if it's that bad maybe they'd try something different instead of dragging the rest of us down with them.They elected the man whose tax cuts only help you in upper tax brackets and actually cost lower tax brackets more. They actively rejected the party that wants to provide social services for people in need (because some brown or trans people might also be helped, best as I can tell), and elected the party that wants to defund literally everything except defense and secret police.
  I don't have much sympathy for the folks who decided to inflict that on the rest of us, and I doubt the 28% who voted Harris have much sympathy for their fellow West Virginians, either.
  
  Part of it is there was some very real backstabbing done by the Dems with Bernie and Hillary in 2016. He won literally every county in the state in 2016 and they sent super delegates to the Convention and gave the state to Hillary, 19-18. It doesn't excuse selling out the country for spite, but there is a very real thing perpetrated on WV voters by Democratic supporters. And we used to be a sorta blue state, up until that time.
- I've looked through many towns in WV while exploring railways and other stuff on Streetview, and it's a genuinely depressing place. So many half abandoned, run down towns with overgrown houses that have random junk and like broken 5 cars sitting on the lawn. When the industry packed up and left, these people were left with nothing and can't afford to leave.
Yet they probably overwhelmingly voted for them
- And still will

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