Former West Virginia Governor Arch A. Moore Jr. dies at age 91.

[General Zod]

Source: West Virginia Public Broadcasting

Former West Virginia Governor Arch A. Moore, Jr. has passed away. He was 91.

His death comes just one day after the swearing in of his daughter, Shelley Moore Capito, as West Virginia's first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate.

Moore served as West Virginia's Governor for three terms. First from 1969 to 1977 and again from 1985 to 1989. He also served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1957 to 1969.

According to a news release from Capito and her siblings, Moore passed away Wednesday evening in Charleston while surrounded by family.



“To call our father a source of inspiration would be an understatement. He was -- and will continue to be -- the force that drives us and our families each and every day," said Capito and her siblings in the release.


Read more: http://wvpublic.org/post/former-gov-arch-moore-passes-away-91

[niyad]

1. the link is not working.

[General Zod]

3. Fixed

Sorry about that.

[niyad]

4. not a problem. did you notice that nowhere in that obit was it mentioned that he was

a republican?

[General Zod]

5. I Did.

Here's a good read from West Virginia Metronews: http://wvmetronews.com/2015/01/07/arch-moore-left-dynamic-controversial-legacy/

[niyad]

7. thank you for that one.

[niyad]

2. great role model here:

Arch Alfred Moore, Jr. (April 16, 1923 – January 7, 2015) was a lawyer and Republican politician from West Virginia.[3] He began his political career as a state legislator in 1952. He was elected the 28th and 30th Governor of West Virginia from 1969 until 1977 and again from 1985 until 1989. Amid allegations of corruption he ran for reelection in 1988, but was unseated by Democrat Gaston Caperton. He was eventually prosecuted for and pled guilty to five felony charges. In 1990 he was sentenced to five years and ten months in prison. He served over three years before his release. As a result of his conviction, Moore was disbarred and forfeited his state pension. In 1995, he paid a settlement of $750,000 to the state.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_A._Moore,_Jr.

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Moore and his campaign manager were indicted for extortion in 1975, making Moore the first seated governor to officially be charged with a crime. Both men were found not guilty. Moore left office and established private law practices in Charleston, Moundsville and Washington, D.C.

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http://www.wtrf.com/story/27787290/former-wv-gov-arch-moore-dies-at-age-91

daughter has great repuke track record as well.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

6. Five-time convicted felon, fucked over the survivors of Buffalo Creek

crooked as they came and wrote the book on corrupt West Virginia politics.

Going to be nauseating this week as local media and politicians try to sanitize his record for his equally crooked daughter's sake.

[General Zod]

8. I Totally Agree

He was, however, one of the last liberal republicans in the state and he actually did believe in governing. That being said, I cannot forgive him for stealing from the state's black lung fund and for the aftermath of the Buffalo Creek disaster.

[ileus]

10. I work with a survivor of Buffalo Creek.

His father was the police chief, he said every time they would have bunches of rain his dad would move the family from in the valley to up on the hillside where his Grandmother lived. They lost their home but his father is the reason why they survived.

[Divernan]

9. I "met" Gov. Moore at his Club Fed prison at Maxwell Air Force Base.

I visited the prison to take the deposition of another white collar convict for a civil trial which proceeded out of a criminal case. As a guard escorted me down the well-manicured path to the "cottage" in which I took the deposition, we passed a prisoner who avoided eye contact. The guard told me it was Gov. Arch Moore. I referred to that on DU back in 2006, when discussing the posh Club Feds for white collar criminals as per Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1287287

Sorry guys, but the worst these guys face is playing bridge at a Club Fed.

"All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."

No hard time for them; they'll get sent to a Club Fed

There are several federal prisons known as Club Feds, where white collar criminals play bridge and tennis and have the run of well-manicured grounds with cozy cottage type buildings. I visited one at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama to take the deposition of a convicted felon/ex major law firm partner, whose grandfather had been editor of Harvard Law Review. He had a different self-help group meeting to attend nearly every night. There was gamblers anonymous, alcoholics anonymous, etc. His bridge partner was former West Virginia governor, Arch Moore. No longer there was John Mitchell, convicted while Attorney General of the U.S., and sentenced to 19 months at Maxwell. I understand now they have a health spa. A more recent resident at a Florida Club Fed is a Baltimore Ravens football player convicted on a drug charge. The mix at these prisons is about 30% white collar criminals and 70% drug offenders. Here are two links. I'm having trouble getting the first one, to the St. Petersburg Times to work, but if you google "Maxwell Air Force Base" and "Club Fed", you can get it.


www.sptimes.com/2005/05/07/Hillsborough/_Club_Fed_or_re...
'Club Fed' or real hard time?
Three convicted in a Tampa housing scheme will spend time in federal prisons.
By JEFF TESTERMAN, Times Staff Writer
Published May 7, 2005

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Chester M. Luney, the former executive director at the Tampa Hillsborough Action Plan who also was convicted in the bribery trial, also has reported to prison.Luney, 60, arrived at the Federal Prison Camp at Montgomery, Ala., on April 29 to begin serving a two-year, nine-month sentence. An Air Force veteran who also worked as an $80,279-a-year Veterans Affairs psychologist, Luney requested the Montgomery facility, which is on the grounds of Maxwell Air Force Base.

The prison camps in Pensacola and Montgomery are classified as minimum-security facilities. They are without walls or gun towers, and house a mix of inmates, about 70 percent drug offenders and 30 percent white-collar criminals.

The Baltimore Ravens' $5.8-million-a-year running back Jamal Lewis began serving a four-month sentence at the Pensacola prison in February on charges arising from his use of a cell phone to set up a cocaine deal.
Joe Paulus, a former Wisconsin district attorney who pleaded guilty to taking bribes in 22 cases he prosecuted in Winnebago County, is serving a 58-month sentence there.

At both prisons, inmates take weekends off. After daily work details wrap up, they may watch TV or use recreational facilities. At Montgomery, that includes softball fields, basketball courts, pool tables, weight rooms, a library and a room for playing acoustical musical instruments.
Inmates must wear institutional green pants and numbered shirts and work boots. They share communal toilets and showers. Their three meals a day consist of food that costs the government $2.60 a day per inmate.

[MountainMama]

11. Dang.....

I thought that old crook was dead already. No tears here.