The Vast Majority: "West Virginia Isn't Just Trump Country" with Cathy Kunkel

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🗓️ 19 September 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

As we trudge closer to 2020, candidates are emerging for elected office beyond the presidency. And, thank God, they don't all suck. Like Cathy Kunkel, who is running for Congress in West Virginia's second district.

Cathy is an energy analyst, cochair of the Working Families Party in West Virginia, an activist during the 2018 West Virginia teachers strike, and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. She's also a contributor to Jacobin, where she's written half a dozen articles about West Virginia and Puerto Rico.

You can read her Jacobin articles here: https://www.jacobinmag.com/author/cathy-kunkel

You can learn more about her campaign at her website: https://kunkelforcongress.com

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1:07.0	Hello, welcome to the vast majority. I'm Jacobin managing editor Micah Utrich. West
1:16.2	Virginia is Trump country. Or at least that's what we're supposed to think. The
1:21.2	state went for Trump in 2016 and is seen by some media
1:25.3	commentators as a bastion of reactionary thought in the country. But that was
1:29.7	proven wrong or at least not the whole story in the 2018 West Virginia teacher strike
1:34.8	which kicked off a wave of teacher strikes around the country including in many
1:38.3	red states and Kathy Kunkel is hoping to prove it wrong in her run for Congress in West Virginia's second district.
1:46.0	Kathy is an energy analyst in West Virginia.
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