MARTINSBURG – Janet McNulty has filed to run for the West Virginia House of Delegates in the newly formed District 94.
This is the first time McNulty has run for political office, but she is looking forward to sharing what makes her different from other candidates, which is, in her opinion, her youth, energy and passion.
“For the last two years, I watched as we lost our freedoms due to fear and greed,” McNulty wrote on her official website. “During this pandemic, politicians seized more power for themselves, while corporations grew more wealthy and cut out their competition, but it is the people, like you and me, who have suffered the most. Many of us lost our jobs due to unconstitutional mandates or saw our income cut in half as hours and pay were reduced.
“And though West Virginia has weathered this storm better than most, we still have politicians who would like to impose more mandates. For two years, I have watched the news…wishing that someone, somewhere, would stand up and do the right thing. As time passed, I realized, that sometimes, you have to be that someone. I love this country. I love this state. This is why I am running for the House of Delegates. At the very least, I can be a voice for sanity and a voice for our individual liberties.”
McNulty moved to the Eastern Panhandle in 2007. She has a bachelor’s degree in history and a master’s degree in information technology.
“I stand for honesty, integrity and responsibility,” she said. “I am tired of the current politicians that I am aware of who are about 40 years older than me and have served in politics for as long as I have been alive. I believe that America is an exceptional nation that values individual freedom and that West Virginia can be a beacon for that. I also believe we need younger people who love their state and their country to step up and take responsibility and that it is time for the older generation to step aside and allow us to become the leaders that we need to become. It is time that we do so. It is time to pass the torch.”
Her platform includes:
n Ending the state income tax
n Protecting the Second Amendment and an individual’s right to self-defense
n Protecting the private property rights of West Virginians
n Banning Critical Race Theory and focusing on the basics in education, such as, math, reading comprehension, writing skills, science and “history (the good and the bad)—all of which are necessary in the adult world,” she explained.
n School choice
n Keeping West Virginia a Right to Work state
n No vaccine mandates or vaccine passports
n Protecting the unborn
n Updating infrastructure: roads, power grid and broadband
n Keeping law enforcement and first responder agencies funded and “ban any ‘wokeism’ from infecting them,” she said.
n Protecting the 10th Amendment and protecting West Virginia’s sovereignty and independence
McNulty’s goals for the Eastern Panhandle include a stronger local economy.
“The Eastern Panhandle needs a stronger local economy so that people who live here will not be forced to commute to have a well-paying job and a job that is not necessarily warehouse based, retail or food service, all of which are valuable elements of the economy,” she said, “but they do not necessarily support a career, and there are people living here with skills based in the STEM industry who cannot find employment locally and must commute.”
McNulty explained that West Virginia’s economy currently focuses on manufacturing, mineral extraction (coal) and the service industry. She said that in the Eastern Panhandle, most of the manufacturing plants have disappeared.
“Federal policies concerning coal have given the state an economic beating. The service industry does not encourage a career focus, and the only way to have a ‘career’ in it is to work your way up into management and it is dependent upon how well the rest of the economy is doing,” McNulty said. “All are valuable, but we need to diversify because our three economic elements that we have right now are too limited. Another issue for the economy is when new companies move in and build a plant, they tend to bring in their management and IT staff from other states instead of hiring locally even when the local applicants possess the required skills. We need to encourage the creation of technical jobs and the hiring of local people with those skills. As a delegate, I will promote the creation of more STEM-related jobs with the provision that they hire locally when the qualified applicants are available and that they train local residents for entry and advanced positions.”
Even though McNulty is not a native West Virginian, she adopted it as her home.
“I care about this state and her people, and for obvious reasons, I care about the Eastern Panhandle, considering I live here,” she said. “I did not move here to run for office. I am running for office because I believe I can help improve the state. My lack of experience is my biggest setback. I am trying to offset that by being reasonable, proactive and putting myself out there as a person willing to be responsible for the direction the state of West Virginia takes.”
McNulty said that she loves America and what the country stands for.
“Individual liberty for all; equal justice under the law for all; the right for all people to decide the course of their own life; personal responsibility; equal opportunity, not equal outcome (AKA equity); that the most important minority is the individual because without the individual, we do not have a society; and that we are one people, one nation under God. I believe that West Virginia can lead the way,” McNulty said.
To learn more about McNulty and her campaign, visit www.mcnultyforwvdelegate.com.
