WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — The Affordable Care Act needs to be changed. Wall Street banking regulations need to be repealed. Republicans need to stay in control of the West Virginia Legislature. And natural gas companies need to be able to drill for minerals in the Mountain State, even if some of the property owners are unwilling sign a new lease.
Those were some of the messages that were shared during the first day of the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce’s annual conference, an event that allows business executives, lobbyists and the state’s political elite to mingle in luxury.
The event, which is being held at the historic Greenbrier resort, will be at the center of West Virginia’s business and political universe over the next three days.
It will include speeches by some of the state’s biggest corporate leaders, a large number of mostly Republican state lawmakers, West Virginia’s entire congressional delegation and the state’s two major-party candidates for governor…