By Mike Tony
A political strategist who played a key role in a successful push to flip control of the West Virginia Legislature from Democrats to Republicans in 2014 later played a key role in a billion-dollar power plant bailout secured by FirstEnergy bribery.
Nine years after Republicans gained control of the House of Delegates for the first time in eight decades, the Legislature consists of a Republican supermajority embracing another FirstEnergy-engineered plant bailout on the table.