Ojeda to Resign from West Virginia Senate, Will Focus on 2020 Presidential Run

[brooklynite]

West Virginia Public Broadcasting:

West Virginia state Senator Richard Ojeda says he will resign from his seat next week to focus on winning the Democratic nomination for president in 2020.

“I cannot -- I will not -- allow myself to not be sitting in my seat and leave it empty. It needs to be filled with somebody who's going to go in here and just going to do their best to help the state,” Ojeda said during an interview at the West Virginia Capitol on Wednesday, the first day of the Legislature's 60-Day session.

He said he plans to submit a letter of resignation on Tuesday, Jan. 15.

The Army veteran is in his first term in public office, having won his seat in the West Virginia Legislature in 2016. He first made national headlines when he was severely beaten just two days before his primary election that year.

He has been traveling the country in recent weeks as part of his presidential campaign, which he launched less than a week after losing the race for West Virginia’s 3rd Congressional District in November 2018 by more than 12 percentage points.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

1. The trumper voter?

Id hang on to that meal ticket.

[Sherman A1]

2. Should be interesting

Gonna get crowded.

[Hortensis]

3. Any Democrat the committee recommends is likely

to be, at least, a solid improvement. This right-wing Democrat echoed Sanders in his portrayal of Democrats as serving big business instead of the people and voted for Trump in 2016. He'll be running another populist fake-reform campaign again, of course, trying to draw Sanders' remnant post-primary support along with fall-away trumpsters. Go get 'em, Jerk.

[mcar]

4. Who?