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Education remains hot topic among Southern West Virginia Democratic candidates

By JORDAN NELSON

The Register-Herald

Sherrie Hunter pins a flag on Steve Davis at the opening of the Raleigh County Democratic Headquarters in Beckley on Wednesday.
(Register-Herald photo by Chris Jackson)

BECKLEY, W.Va. — Campaign signs plastered with the names of 2018 local Democratic candidates were pinned alongside a building on Eisenhower Drive in Beckley Wednesday evening in celebration of the grand opening of the Raleigh County Democratic Party headquarters.

While the evening was meant for attendees to mingle with potential 2018 local candidates running for federal and state offices, education was a highly discussed subject amongst candidates.

Paul Flanagan, chairman of the Raleigh County Democratic Executive Committee, expressed in November voters need to remember the Public Employees Insurance Agency (PEIA) is still an unresolved issue when it comes to all public workers in the state.

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