Michael Mosteller for WV HD-21 - Hurricane and Culloden

06/21/2026

Trying to get a feel for whether or not people who own street bikes would be down for a “ ride with the candidate” event sometime this summer. Maybe a short trip out to Hawk’s Nest and back, something like that. 

06/20/2026

Google is trying to buy our hearts and minds. There’s a term for it - strategic philanthropy. The old corporate playbook - donate money to organizations around the area to bring the people around to accepting something horrible in their backyard. Norfolk Southern did it after blowing up a train in East Palestine, Ohio - they built a multi-million dollar hazmat training center there (now nearly defunct). Other examples are when chemical companies like FMC and Union Carbide built small family resorts in the area to boost public opinion while they had constant chemical leaks.

06/20/2026

My opponent in the general election for house district 21 in Hurricane and Culloden, WV is C. D. Caldwell. I’ve had several conversation conversations with him, and I like C.D. Each election, I have vowed to never personally attack my opponents, I will speak to the issues. I enjoy my conversations with Mr. Caldwell and he is a great guy actually. We both want to help Putnam county and our state, we just have a difference of opinion on how to do that.

One of the disagreements we have is on the data center. My opponent is supportive of the data center, and I would like to find out if he would support repealing house bill 2014. I haven’t gotten a straight answer from him on that, and I’ve asked in person and through social media. Hopefully he can clarify. How’s that for a big, mean attack ad? 🤣 jk. I actually do like CD as a person, he really is a great guy.

06/19/2026

If you are concerned about the data centers in West Virginia, you should be listening to 580 AM, WCHS radio with Dave Allen. It is streamed online as well.

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06/18/2026

Asking tough questions and the history of consequences for West Virginia’s. We have been poisoned our entire lives. It must end now. Part 2

06/18/2026

Ask the hard questions. Then ask follow up questions. Ask until you are satisfied with the answer. Part 1

06/17/2026

I’m not sure what the purpose of the PCDA inviting me to their meeting today was. We were disappointed that we didn’t get any public comment. And partway through, I realized - it wasn’t about public comment. It was about intimidation. If that’s the case, I know that most of the PCDA probably wasn’t aware of it. But I can think of a member that has connections with the sheriffs dept who would desperately want to get the heat off of themself. We’ll see.

06/16/2026

We get invited to the Putnam County development authority meeting, they don’t have public comments or even seem interested that we were in the room. The police are there and had eyes on us the whole time.

They wait over 30 mins until we left, which was at least 20 minutes after everyone else left. Then I get followed by two cruisers turn for turn. At what point do we call out the use of state resources for intimidation for opposing AI data centers? They are right there behind David and I. 

06/13/2026

I didn’t get here in time this year to meet Travis Pastrana, but there are a lot of other cool racing teams. I got paid nothing to do this, they just gave me one to try and it is really good. It kind of has that energy drink taste, without the parts that at least turned me off to energy drinks. I wanted to help these guys get their name out there, and I’m all for helping small businesses. In all honesty, this actually tastes pretty good, so I figured I would use my platform to share it. If you have a store in West Virginia, order some of these and sell it out of your cooler.