West Virginia House speaker fires back after Illinois Dem calls state ‘irrelevant’ to US economy
FIRST ON FOX: The West Virginia Speaker of the House fired back after a Democratic congressman from Illinois called the Mountain State “an irrelevant part” of the U.S. economy.
West Virginia House Speaker Roger Hanshaw, a Republican, spoke to Fox News on Tuesday in a phone interview about Rep. Sean Casten’s, D-Ill., recent comment disparaging the economic role of the state in the national economy.
Hanshaw called Casten’s remark “an extraordinarily disappointing statement to hear from any member of the United States Congress” and said that, while West Virginia is “41st in size,” that fact “hardly” makes the state “irrelevant.”
WEST VIRGINIA REPUBLICANS SLAM ILLINOIS DEM CASTEN FOR CALLING THEIR STATE ‘IRRELEVANT PART’ OF US ECONOMY
“This is an energy state here in West Virginia. We’ve powered the United States of America since before the founding of this country,” Hanshaw told Fox News. “The fossil energy that has been…
