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Please note Senator Joe Manchin's activities to support Amtrak, in an article dated June 7, 2018.

"Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) secured language in the FY19 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies appropriations bill that will ensure Amtrak has to employ one ticketing agent in every state, including West Virginia. This comes after weeks of Senator Manchin fighting to keep the one and only ticketing agent in West Virginia after Amtrak announced they were terminating the position, which took effect yesterday."

Manchin Secures Language to Ensure Amtrak Ticket Agent in West Virginia
https://www.manchin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/manchin-secures-language-to-ensure-amtrak-ticket-agent-in-west-virginia
 

Good, although that will not get Havre or Shelby back. 

Now let’s get one of the 6 “outraged” senators in co, ks, or nm to do the same for the swc.

Any support is good I guess, but Sen. Manchin could do more.

Jack

ts1457 Wrote:
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> Any support is good I guess, but Sen. Manchin
> could do more.
>
> Jack
Especially if you read the text of the bill. It basically only rescues the agent in West Virgnia (and I think Iowa?). So this is not going to be a far reaching mandate.

He's looking for Charleston or Huntington. That is the only service downgade WV has gotten. Food service, frequency, and threat of bus bridges are not relevant here. 

The senators from Montana can get Havre and Shelby back if they want to. Ask 'em

My guess is, before he knows it he'll be asked to fight for the very existence of the Cardinal.

Soon he will be fighting for his political life as an endangered species in West Virginia. Then what?

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mt-king Wrote:
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> The senators from Montana can get Havre and Shelby
> back if they want to. Ask 'em

One MT senator is under a lot of re-election pressure.

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Both senators are in a hell of a position. Their (the senators) voting record is under the microscope. They’re constituents constantly vote against their best interests and they only seem to want to elect someone that will hurt them and their families. It’s a catch 22.

reindeerflame Wrote:
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> Soon he will be fighting for his political life as
> an endangered species in West Virginia. Then
> what?
>
> Posted from iPhone

Some folks in WV seem to realize that voting for the latest grifter from out of state promising "change" hasn't paid off in quite a while.

There's even a pharma exc running for Congress in one of the hardest hit WV opiod districts.  She could win