Dad. Husband. Lawyer for worker health & safety, better pay, benefits, schools, & recovery. @DNC & @WVDemocrats. 🪕⚒✊ Micah 6:8.
Charleston, WV
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Sam Brown Petsonk retweeted
TALARICO: When I left the hospital, I went to Walgreens to pick up my first 30 day supply of insulin—this new medicine that I now needed to live, and it cost me $684. I didn't have that kind of money, so I put it on a credit card. So many Texans with diabetes can't afford their insulin, can't afford the medicine that they need to live. And it's all because big pharma has a monopoly..
Sam Brown Petsonk retweeted
.@JamesTalarico: Before I was a politician, I was a 6th grade language arts teacher in San Antonio.
We rank 43rd in the nation in per-student funding, and we are nickel-and-diming the most important professionals in our communities. We need to fully fund the Department of Education, guarantee universal high-quality early childhood education, and pass a long-overdue pay raise for our educators.
Sending a teacher to the United States Senate from Texas will go a long way toward achieving that goal.
Sam Brown Petsonk retweeted
I’m tired of being divided into teams.
Do you want a safe neighborhood?
Do you want a good job with good benefits?
Do you want a high quality, well funded public school?
So do I. We’re far more the same than we are different.
As one team, we’re unstoppable.
Sam Brown Petsonk retweeted
State schools officials twice took aim at West Virginia's strained school funding, first proposing a new framework for legislative consideration and then taking a formal position that the current school funding system is constitutionally inadequate.
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Sam Brown Petsonk retweeted
Excuse us, @wvgovernor, but you forgot to include a link to the article you claim "misrepresented" your administration's plans and that you dismissed as "fake news."
Don't worry, we've got your back!
And because we stand behind the reporting at the heart of this article and encourage all West Virginians to read it and draw their own conclusions, we've removed the paywall, making this piece of important journalism free to read for everyone.
Check out Mike Tony's story below and thanks for supporting local journalism.
wvgazettemail.com/news/energ… via @wvgazettemail
The Gazette got it wrong. This Friday’s story intentionally misrepresented my administration’s energy plans without giving me a chance to address their claims and slanted coverage.
Here's the truth: We are pursuing nuclear generation and manufacturing to bring high-paying jobs to West Virginia. Our recent application to the U.S. Department of Energy was part of that effort. We want to build on our existing strengths in coal and natural gas to create more jobs and opportunity, stronger communities, and a higher standard of living.
But West Virginia will not be a dumping ground for nuclear waste. Period.
I have directed my Office of Energy to ensure that every site identified in our final Nuclear Campus application is considered only for nuclear generation or manufacturing - not as a dump.
I will keep fighting for investments that can bring thousands of high-paying jobs to our state. I will also protect West Virginia’s beauty and heritage. We can pursue new opportunities without becoming a dumping ground.
More energy jobs and manufacturing jobs are on the table. Nuclear waste dumps are not. We've had enough fake news.
Sam Brown Petsonk retweeted
"People who are engaged are happier. They will vote," she said. "They will vote when they believe that we can make a difference and that we’re putting up candidates that are fighting to make a difference, fighting to make things better for them.”
Rachel Fetty Anderson, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, wants voters to know they have a choice this November versus Republican U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito.
newsandsentinel.com/news/loc…
Sam Brown Petsonk retweeted
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor.
This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why.
Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people. theintercept.com/2026/09/23/…
Sam Brown Petsonk retweeted
My last story with @WV_Watch is out today.
I combed through and logged all WV locality spending of opioid settlement funds in FY2025, and then put it all in handy tables for you to search yourself.
Look and see where your community prioritized spending:
westvirginiawatch.com/2026/0…
Sam Brown Petsonk retweeted
On this Labor Day, a reminder that the largest labor uprising in U.S. history happened in the hills of WV in 1921. Here’s a great documentary on the legacy of Blair Mountain (s/o @realcindiadkins) from WCHS. youtu.be/nPnnw0yVNGk
Sam Brown Petsonk retweeted
West Virginia’s business leaders continue to beat the drum that the state is woefully short on affordable childcare spots.
Via @WV_Watch
wvgazettemail.com/news/legis…
Sam Brown Petsonk retweeted
The Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center in Huntington is hosting a special screening of "9 to 5," a 1980 comedy film. All proceeds from the event will support Parton's Imagination Library of West Virginia.
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Sam Brown Petsonk retweeted
West Virginia has high death rates for respiratory diseases, and some of its most populous cities have concentrations well above the national average for a harmful air pollutant called particulate matter.
wvgazettemail.com/news/energ…
Sam Brown Petsonk retweeted
BREAKING: Ed Markey has won the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts!
Onward to November.
ALT A photo of Senator Ed Markey, with text overlaid that reads: "Midterm news: Ed Markey wins Massachusetts Democratic primary for U.S. Senate."
Sam Brown Petsonk retweeted
DNC Chair Ken Martin to Keynote Roosevelt-Kennedy Dinner
The 2026 Roosevelt-Kennedy Dinner will take plan on October 3 in Charleston, WV. DNC Chair Ken Martin will be delivering the keynote address!
🎫Tickets are on sale now: secure.actblue.com/donate/20…
Sam Brown Petsonk retweeted
Dolly Parton on funding education and childhood literacy programs:
My daddy was the smartest man I have ever known, but I knew his inability to read probably kept him from seeing all of his dreams come true. Inspiring kids to love to read became my mission.
Sam Brown Petsonk retweeted
For Mark Bowe, of "Barnwood Builders" fame, taking on the task of disassembling, moving and rebuilding the Ruffner Cabin, Charleston's oldest home — built circa 1795 — is fulfilling a childhood dream.
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Sam Brown Petsonk retweeted
A short film by J.D. Belcher doesn’t tell Mothman's origin or recount the Silver Bridge collapse. Instead, Mothman appears to those experiencing severe trauma.
Belcher hosts the @Creepalachia podcast, chronicling all things weird in West Virginia.
wvgazettemail.com/life/new-w…
Sam Brown Petsonk retweeted
I wrote an update to Gov. Morrisey selling the state’s 4 long-term care hospitals to a private company ⬇️
Majestic Care touts progress on new long-term care hospitals purchased from state late last year. Meanwhile, lawmakers worry about the still unknown locations and losing their community hospitals.
westvirginiawatch.com/2026/0…
