“If we’d fix our courts and our tort reform issues, we’d stand a lot better chance of getting a cracker than we would be in passing this huge bill that we just pull our pants down to get a cracker, when everybody should be getting the same tax breaks.”
— West Virginia gubernatorial candidate Bill Maloney (R), quoted by the Charleston Gazette, alleging that Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin (D) gave up too much in tax incentives to bring a cracker plant to the state.
