I had hoped with some significant competition to the crazies that currently inhabit the 30th District Democratic House of Delegates (all seven are Democrats), that maybe, just maybe, a few of the challengers would be better than the incumbants.

Well, and let’s face it, I can’t imagine anyone being less capable or mentally competent than Nancy (The) Peoples (Republic of) Guthrie, Bobbi Hatfield, Bonnie Brown, Sharon Spencer and their leader Danny Wells.

It sends shudders down my spine just saying those names in sequence as our “leaders.”

Now, let’s face it again, when your LEADER.. the leading vote-getter of the Delegation is… Danny Wells… well, the cream hasn’t necessarily risen to the top if you know what I mean.

So, my hope was that at least a FEW Democrat challengers would be better than someone like Nancy Guthrie, who I’m sure the rest of the Democrats in the House are trying to lock up like the crazy Aunt in the attic after that incoherent spectacle she made of herself on Decision Makers.

After all, Mojo and the other leaders in the House want West Virginians to believe that they are pretty conservative in passing tax cuts (in 2015, mind you).  They simply can’t have the loopy Nancy Guthries of the world out there spouting Marxist propaganda.

But after reading a few of the quotes of the challengers, ol’ Nancy and Bonnie are starting to look good (in a figurative sense, of course, not literally).

The first quote I read from the “challengers” in the 30th District?

From challenger Jeff Wood, “We have to figure out how to make our education system … competitive not only with teachers in Virginia and Maryland, but with other professions as well,” he said.

Huh?  That’s the first thing we have to do?

I don’t know, call me crazy, but our TOP priority MAY be figuring out how to make our business climate competitive with Virginia and Maryland to the betterment of the 1.780 Million people in this state who AREN’T teachers.  But, the first thing this dude is going to do is take more money from the 1.78 million people who aren’t in the WVEA and AFT and give it to the teachers.  Scary.

Poor Jeff Mollohan… he didn’t even get a quote.  All the paper said was first-time candidate Jerry Mollohan also attended.

Ouch.

That means the dude was so non-existent in the interview the paper couldn’t remember a word the guy said. 

Double Ouch. 

Even with our mutual disdain for one another, the Gazette would at least give me a quote, even if it was a bad one.  Poor Jeff was the first candidate I can ever remember that actually attended a Gazette editorial board interview who wasn’t quoted.  Hysterical.

Of course, there may be a few good guys on the Democratic side. 

They have this young kid, Roger Decario or Decanio or something like that.  He seems like a nice young trial lawyer.

You know it’s bad when you are hoping for a trial lawyer to win simply to get someone with at least some modicum of intelligence to serve in the 30th District.

You have a St. Albans High School junior student.  You know that person has to have at least SOME ability because he made it further than 1/2 the current delegation.

Of course, you have former Delegate Mark Hunt.  Hunt actually won in the 30th District a time or two ago after opening the first in the nation human cloning lab in the old Nitro High School. 

Had he actually got the thing up and running and rehired that whacked-out crazy-haried, French Raellian scientist who he brought in to do the cloning, who knows, he may be Governor right now.

Again, you know its bad when you start rooting for a trial lawyer - who opened a human cloning lab in Nitro High School, mind you - to win simply because that person is BETTER than the other people who are in office.

Holy Moley.

And, you have poor Brenda Nicols Harper in there.  Brenda had to feel like she just was dropped into a group of aliens on the planet Krypton. 

After all, she is business-oriented, has a brain, and actually can spell economic development.

Here she was talking about post-retirement benefits and capitalism and my guess is half the people in the room, including the editorial board, thought she was speaking Swahili.

And, just HOW bad is it when Sharon Spencer actually gets the best quote with…   it would be nice to be able to give annual adjustments to teachers, but it’s not prudent, with projections showing the state budget falling into a deficit within five years.

Holy smokes again, I couldn’t be believe I almost gave Sharon a “you go, girl!”

At least Dave Higgins hopefully will win one of the seats and is competent.  Of course, he might win as long as he doesn’t hire whoever ran that terrible Senate campaign for him where he was beaten so badly that he may have actually received negative votes.  Of course, the only thing that kept that Higgins for Senate campaign from being logged in the anals of worst run campaign was the debacle that was the $4 million racetrack campaign. 

Until the racetrack weaved their “magic,” (you know that magic that spends $4 million dollars and wins by 300 votes against people who spent $4.99) the Higgins debacle was going down as the one of the worst, most shocking beatdowns in West Virginia history. 

Goodness gracious, can we not get at least a few competent people in the 30th District?  I mean, maybe three of the seven at least?  At this point, I would welcome trial lawyers, human cloning lab entrepreneurs, high school juniors (heck, freshman would do) and just about anyone with a compliment of brain cells to replace the current crop.