New WV House Speaker

I don't know if this means anything or how much. I just thought it was interesting.

When Delegate Richard Thompson, D-Wayne, was elected House Speaker earlier this month, a news release came out quoting 11 delegates who were pleased with Thompson's election. Among them were Don Perdue, D-Wayne, and Jim Morgan and Dale Stephens, both D-Cabell.

In the days of the Cold War, Kremlinologists would scour this news release looking for clues about who is in good standing with the new leadership and who is not. In this case, they would look for what Democrats were mentioned in the news release and which were not, figuring they could learn a lot from that.

I, however, have merely a passing interest in this for now. We can guess all we want about why some Cabell Democrats were not in the news release and what that may mean for them in the coming two years, but we'll let insiders hash that one out for now.