By Charles Young, The Exponent Telegram
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — The West Virginia Chamber’s 88th Annual Meeting and Business Summit will turn its focus on the upcoming November election.
Attendees of the three-day event at The Greenbrier resort later this month will have an opportunity to hear from the two candidates vying to be the state’s next governor, the members of the state’s congressional delegation and GOP Senate nominee Gov. Jim Justice.
“This is an important election in West Virginia,” said Chamber President Steve Roberts. “We’ll be having a new governor for the first time in eight years and a new attorney general. For the first time in many years, there is turnover in a lot of the major offices, so we have invited a number of the candidates to come speak.”
Rep. Carol Miller, R-W.Va., is scheduled to kick off the event, followed by opening remarks from Justice.
Current Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, the Republican nominee for governor, and Huntington Mayor Steve Williams, the Democratic nominee for governor, will each address attendees on the event’s first day.
“We want the audience to have an opportunity to see what the candidates are thinking about the future of West Virginia,” Roberts said. “There will be an opportunity to rub elbows with the candidates and watch them as they present their vision of the state’s future.”
The candidates will touch on the economy, education, health care and ways to “create the kind of state we all know West Virginia can be if we just get moving the right direction a little faster,” Roberts said.
