Pritt trial begins - Underwood agrees to testify for Pritt!

[Lt. Governor 2B]

http://sundaygazettemail.com/section/News/Other%20News/2006030325?pt=10

March 04, 2006
Pritt libel case begins 8 years later

By Susan Williams
Staff writer

FAYETTEVILLE — A long-delayed libel suit that a former Democratic candidate for governor brought against three Republican organizations started Friday in Fayette County Circuit Court. Former state Sen. Charlotte Pritt believes that ads paid for by Republicans who lived out of state distorted her voting record in the final days of her campaign and cost her a chance to be West Virginia’s first woman governor....

....Roberts said the Victory Committee was born to handle ads against Pritt and dissolved soon after Pritt was defeated. Roberts also said the address for the West Virginia Victory Committee was the same as the Washington address for National Republican Senatorial Committee, and it had the same officers. In researching for the case, Roberts and his co-counsel, Roger Forman, discovered that all the people who gave money to the West Virginia Victory Committee were from out of state. They could not find a single dollar contributed by a West Virginian.

....Although Pritt’s Republican opponent for governor was Cecil Underwood, her lawyer made clear that the suit was not against Underwood. Underwood rejected the ads, AND HE WILL BE A WITNESS FOR PRITT.