GOP Senate Candidate in WV Built a Golf Course without permits

[DonViejo]

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) -- Republican Senate candidate John Raese filled in wetlands and damaged more than 2 miles of streams when he rerouted them to create waterfalls on a private, 18-hole West Virginia golf course that federal regulators say he built without the required permits.

The years-long construction of Pikewood National Golf Club near Morgantown is "probably the biggest violation we've ever seen in this district," Sheila Tunney, spokeswoman for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Pittsburgh, told The Associated Press.

More than two years ago, the Environmental Protection Agency ordered Raese, the club's president, to develop a plan to mitigate the damage. Tunney says work on that plan is ongoing.

Raese, who's challenging incumbent Democrat Joe Manchin, recently called Pikewood "the nicest golf course in the United States" and a local job creator. He didn't immediately respond to a request for comment Monday.

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[freshwest]

1. Eliminate the EPA so there will be no more lawbreakers!

Apply liberally as needed:

[Angry Dragon]

2. Throw his ass in one of those private prisons

[JNelson6563]

3. +1

[Bake]

4. Is he being fined for every day the course is still there?

Because he SHOULD BE.

BAke

[Wellstone ruled]

5. That kind of

sh*t happens all the time in Udah. It's all about the Ol Boy network,just promise not to do it again,wink wink.