West Virginia gubernatorial candidates walk in Ripley Fourth of July parade

CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — As always during an election year, the Ripley Fourth of July parade was filled with candidates running for office, including the Democratic and Republican candidates for West Virginia governors.

Both Attorney General Patrick Morrisey (R) and Huntington Mayor Steve Williams (D) had vehicles in the Ripley parade. They shook hands and chatted up voters trying to convince them to vote for them.

“Setting a course, a model for how state government should be run. Our office has always been run. We try to run it like a Swiss clock, and I think it’s so important that we do the right thing and West Virginia is going to have strong transformational government,” said Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, (R) Nominee for West Virginia Governor.

“Well, I know how to be able to run a city, just like Mayor Rader is able to in Ripley. It’s about time that West Virginia has a governor, who’s been a mayor,” said Mayor Steve Williams, (D) Nominee for WV Governor.

Each candidate says he will run on his record: how he tried to deal with the opioid epidemic and how they will continue to do so if elected governor.

Both men are running to succeed Republican Governor Jim Justice who is term-limited and is running for U.S. Senate.

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