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Article: Trade barriers: ; Jobs act, if constitutional, would have backfired on West Virginia
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- November 2, 2000
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Arecent editorial and television ads by the Affiliated
Construction Trades Foundation unjustly attack Gov. Cecil
Underwood's veto of the jobs act, a bill mandating that 90 percent
of the workers on state-funded construction projects be West
Virginia residents. The editorial and the ads portray a veto of the
bill as being against jobs for West Virginians. Nothing could be
further from the truth. Such a bill, if it was even remotely
constitutional, would actually cost West Virginians jobs, especially
workers who live in the state's border countries and routinely work
in adjoining states.
The ACT Foundation implies that border states would not retaliate
against West Virginia by passing their ...