January 1998
Affiliate News: West Virginia
The state party flexed its political muscles in November, and succeeded in getting a member of a powerful state government commission to resign because of a possible conflict of interest.LP State Chair John Brown spearheaded a campaign last month to get a prominent stockbroker to resign from the state's Investment Management Board. Brown, also a stockbroker, asked how the board member "could make independent decisions on the board when he was wondering how it would affect him at work?"
One week later, West Virginia Governor Cecil Underwood received a letter from the stockbroker, who wrote, "I believe it is prudent for me to resign from the board."
