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After resigning over slurs, W.Va. lawmaker reclaims seat

by Cuneyt Dil
| December 9, 2020 11:15 AM

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Republicans will soon have to welcome back a lawmaker who resigned in the heat of his reelection campaign and then jumped back into the race after spending most of his first term embroiled in scandals over discriminatory remarks about gay people and Muslims.

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