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Ryan Weld the Clear Choice for State Senate

Editor, News-Register:

Without an answer to the drug problem our area is facing, there is no hope for better jobs.

Currently, West Virginia has the highest heroin and opioid drug overdose rate in the nation. Our peoples’ drug addiction issue is one of the most significant factors that has led to us being the only state in the country with a work force participation of less than 50 percent — the only state in the entire nation. With as many people as we have suffering from addiction and unable to work, why would major employers want to consider moving to West Virginia?

As the delegate for West Virginia’s Second District, Ryan Weld has made this his top priority as a legislator. Since his election in 2014, Ryan Weld has sponsored or co-sponsored a significant number of bills that have all been aimed at addressing our drug problem. As a prosecuting attorney in Brooke County, Ryan has worked with law enforcement, the court system, and the recovery network here in the Northern Panhandle to ensure that those who sell the drugs get the punishment they deserve — and that those suffering from addiction get the treatment they need.

I’ve heard several times during this election season that working families in West Virginia are under attack. I agree with that statement. They’re under attack from out-of-state drug dealers who push their products across the bridges of the Ohio River, yet sit comfortably at home because they never set foot in our state — only their street dealers do. They sell their poison to our young, getting them addicted before they even have a chance.

If elected, Ryan Weld would be the only prosecuting attorney in the state Senate. His leadership is needed there in order to get the bills that go after out-of-state drug dealers done, and give our law enforcement the tools they need to fight back against the heroin coming in from other states.

Ryan Weld’s experience, both in and out of the state Legislature, makes him the clear choice in this fall’s Senate race. If you want to create jobs, you’ve got to have a work force that will make this state more attractive to employers who want to move here or expand here, and you would have to do that by having more people who are drug free and ready to work. Ryan Weld is the only option in this race to help make that happen.

John Bahnsen

New Cumberland

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