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I’ve been working on figuring out exactly who was affected by the delegate district problems in Precinct 277, so here’s a map I made from the addresses Vera McCormick, the Kanawha County Clerk, gave me.
I’ve spent all day trying to compile the list of delegates that are going to the Republican National Convention. With 99 precincts reporting as of 5:39 p.m., I think I’ve got the list down.
Trump won 30 pledged delegates from West Virginia. That’s 88 percent of the delegates in a state where he won 77 percent of the vote. He was guaranteed the three RNC delegates-Conrad Lucas, Melody Potter and Kris Warner-when he won the popular vote.
Trump won 18 out of 22 at-large delegates. Two of the uncommitted delegates have verbally pledged their support to Trump, according to Mike Stuart, the co-chair of Donald Trump’s West Virginia campaign, but they aren’t bound to vote for him. Morrisey hasn’t endorsed Trump yet and Katrina Lewis couldn’t be reached for comment, but pledged her support to Kasich in January.
We’re still waiting on a few more precincts to report in District 2, but I don’t see an awful lot changing with that vote. If anything, the only thing that might happen is Mitch Carmichael may get knocked out and Bob Adams may get in if there’s a precinct that went heavily for Cruz.
Trump would have won all 34 delegates if it weren’t for some rules that were put in place before the 2016 primary that limited delegates based on where they live. There will be a story about this in Friday’s paper, but here’s the rule.
“The 7 top vote getters from each Congressional District, that have been voted on by all Republican primary voters in the state, are elected as Delegates- totaling 21. (For example, this would allow for CD 3 voters to cast their vote for a Delegate candidate in CD 1 or CD 2 and visa versa)
Of the 22 At Large delegates that will be selected on the statewide ballot not more than 2 may come from the same county.”
That’s why there’s a Kasich supporter with way less votes than everyone else on my list. Lewis was actually the 60th overall and 10th in CD 1.
If you want to see the vote totals in order, for both at-large and congressional districts, here’s my spreadsheet that I used to sort through all of this. The first 22 names are in bold because those are the people who would have made the convention had the geographic rules not been in place. The people who are eliminated are in red. I only put in the county and districts for the top 75.
Yesterday I wrote an article about how increasing and decreasing property tax values have resulted in classification changes for 17 counties. The classification system doesn’t mean much beyond how much the elected officials in the counties earn, but they are calculated based on something more important—property tax values.
Counties rely on property taxes for their income, it’s easily their largest source. So you can get a bit of an idea of how a county is doing, based on whether or not property taxes are increasing or decreasing.
Only 10 out of 55 counties saw decreasing property tax over the last two years, and a major contributor to that is the decline of the coal industry. As mines have left or gone bankrupt, they’ve taken equipment and businesses with them, and since those are taxed, these counties see a decline in property tax values.
When I was talking to Sam Rogers, a county commissioner from Ritchie County, he mentioned that the biggest reason his county moved up three classifications was because of the oil and gas industry, particularly the marcellus shale. So I pulled a map from the WV Geological and Economic Survey to be able to compare.
I worked on a story for the Monday paper, where I took a look at the number of concealed carry permits that were issued by the Kanawha County Sheriff since 2009. Rarely are permits rejected, only a little more than 2 percent of all permits since 2009 were turned down, and it’s even rarer for a permit to be revoked.
The thing that jumped out at me the most though, was the huge surge in concealed carry permit applications in 2013. I racked my head to figure out what big mass shooting had happened that year and the first one that came to my mind was Sandy Hook.
The Sandy Hook Massacre took place in December 2012, just a month before Obama gave his 2013 State of the Union address. President Barack Obama used that State of the Union address to call for stricter gun control laws, a call that became his platform until he issued his executive orders on the issue later that year.
That legislative crusade led to people being afraid that Obama was going to take their guns, which led to an increase in sales and permit applications.
In a cursory Google Trends search, I tried to figure out when people started worrying about whether or not Obama would take their guns. It turns out, the talk started in July 2012. According to Politifact.com, a fact checking site operated by the Tampa Bay Times, the NRA sent out a campaign mailer about why “Obama is coming for our guns” in June of 2012. Talk reached its peak in January 2013, according to the Google Search trends. That’s when Obama unveiled his legislative proposals for gun control to congress.
So here’s an interactive I made to help explore these issues in a visual way. Keep an eye out for the story this Monday.
Someone pointed out to me yesterday that I hadn’t made a map for the Congressional Race. Here it is.
I wanted to update the pre-candidacy list because Booth Goodwin’s filed to run for governor on January 1.
Erin Beck wrote a roundup of the homicides in Kanawha County in 2015, so I made a map to go along with the information that she collected:
Taking a look at the data, this past year there were 14 homicides (not including this one, because we don’t know where it happened or who did it). 64 percent of those homicides involved guns. Another 21 percent involved knives.
Of the homicides where the victims age was reported, the average age of the victims was 33 years old, with the oldest victim being 52 and the youngest 18.
The average age of those charged with murder was 33.7, with the oldest being 59 and the youngest 18.
Every day, the Charleston Police Department receives dozens of phone calls in response to various events that occur throughout the city. Some of these calls end up being nothing, others lead to an investigation in a possible crime committed.
The following is a map of every single call involving violent and drug-related offenses in the city of Charleston between Jan. 1 and Nov. 11.
The map includes shootings, stabbings, assaults, drug trafficking, breaking and entering, as well as robberies and car jackings.
It should be noted, that this map does not indicate that a crime actually occurred at each location. It does, however, indicate that police were called about an alleged incident that occurred at each location.
Interested in looking at a particular crime, like assaults? Just click on the word in the filter box in the lower left corner and it will show you all the assaults in the selected time period.
Interested in looking at a particular time period – say January to March? Use the Date filter bar to go to your desired dates.
Although the map does not have every street name on it, if you click on an icon, it will show you the address associated with the call.
For this weekend’s paper, I did an analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau’s latest 2014 population estimates, specifically about poverty rates and median household income.
The following database contains the 2015-2016 salaries for every single employee in the Berkeley, Cabell, Kanawha and Harrison County School Districts.
Curious about what a teacher, administrator or janitor makes – all you have to do is search the database below.
You can leave the entire form blank and look at more than 9,600 salaries in the four school districts. Sort each column by clicking the header at the top.
You can also search by beginning to type in the first or last name of an employee. Type in a name and the searchbox will automatically complete your search, like Google.
Looking for a few employees in an individual school building – like Sissonville High School or all maintenance workers? You can easily search them by utilizing the dropdown menus next to Position or School/Department.
It should be noted, the source for the information used in this database were obtained from both school districts.
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