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Justice to WVU: ‘We are too blooming good to be last’

By JIM BISSETT

The Dominion Post

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Gov. Jim Justice made a Morgantown stop March 29 as part of his ongoing Save our State tour.

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (left) WVU President E. Gordon Gee and Vice President and Executive Dean for WVU Health Sciences, Dr. Clay Marsh, sit during Justice’s visit to WVU on Wednesday.
(Dominion Post photo)

He told a standing-room-only audience at WVU that his budget proposals for his year’s state Legislative session could pull West Virginia out of generations of fiscal mediocrity.

“We are too blooming good to be last,” he said.

Riley Keaton, a WVU freshman from Spencer, Roane County, who has already run for state office, agreed.

After graduation, he’s going back home.

“I want to be a West Virginian who stays here to be part of the solution,” he said.

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