Article: Is Kanawha County shortchanged ?: ; Budget chairmen say we receive plenty of funding

THERE'S a common theme underlying the Kanawha County Commission's disputes with the Underwood administration.

Commissioner Duke Bloom articulated it earlier this year when challenging an administration plan to take control of the Private Industry Council of Kanawha County. So did Commissioner Kent Carper last month in blasting the governor for not granting the county's application for flood relief.

"Just like anything else with state government, we never get our proportion of the share," Bloom told the Daily Mail's Richard Peacock in March.

"Your defense undoubtedly will be as feeble as your past excuses to the people of Kanawha County concerning other failures to fund needed projects," ...

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