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A Morgantown businessman Kris Warner, one of five state vice chairmen for
the West Virginia Republican party, is seeking to become the chairman of
the GOP. Warner is known to Calhoun residents for his involvement in
attempting to bring a telemarketing firm to the county.
The current state chairman David Tyson will resign on January 31, and has
already put Warner in charge of the organizations finances.
Tilting power to Warner was met with criticism from South Charleston Mayor
Ritchie Robb, who said it would be like changing "tweedledum for
tweedledee."
Robb said he is opposed to Warner because it is like shuffling the deck from
the top. Criticism has been lodged against Tyson's leadership because the
party failed to recruit candidates to run against Democrats at the state and
local levels.
Robb thinks the task of building the Republican party is "formidable but not
impossible."
He cited successes like the election of Shelly Moore Captio to Congress and
President George Bush's victory in the mountain state.
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