Reimagining Rural Politics, Plus A New Constitutional Amendment, This West Virginia Morning

On this West Virginia Morning, Matthew Ferrence did not like what his local representative was saying, so he decided to run against him in 2020. He talked to voters in his Pennsylvania district throughout his campaign, but garnered far too few votes to win office.

Ferrence wrote about the experience in his book “I Hate It Here, Please Vote For Me: Essays On Rural Political Decay.” He spoke with Inside Appalachia‘s Bill Lynch about the book and whether he would ever run for office again.

Meanwhile, additional results from this year’s general election continue to trickle in. Among them, a new constitutional amendment including protections against medically assisted suicide passed by a slim margin, Emily Rice reports.

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Maria Young produced this episode.

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