Dad. Husband. Lawyer for worker health & safety, better pay, benefits, schools, & recovery. @DNC & @WVDemocrats. 🪕⚒✊ Micah 6:8.
Charleston, WV
Joined August 2019
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Sam Brown Petsonk retweeted
Told you to watch the union vote tonight. NBC exits show union households +21 for Ds nationwide (likely higher in battlegrounds where our voter contact was most intensive) compared to +10 for all voters. Union vote is a historic 15% share of overall electorate. Huge
YES YES YES YES YES!!!
DEM FLIP: Democrat James Talarico has defeated Republican Ken Paxton in Texas’ race for U.S. Senate.
With his victory, Senator-elect Talarico has become the first Democrat to win a U.S. Senate seat in Texas in nearly 40 years.
Congratulations!
ALT A photo of James Talarico in a black suit, with text overlaid that reads: “Midterm win: James Talarico wins U.S. Senate race in Texas, flipping seat blue.” At the top, a banner reads: “Democratic flip.”
Sam Brown Petsonk retweeted
Miners file case against West Virginia coal safety officials over silica dust westvirginiawatch.com/2026/1…
Miners & UMWA union file petition for West Virginia to regulate silica dust. 4000 cases of severe coal workers' pneumoconiosis since 2010. Lung transplants skyrocketing. The crisis must stop! The suffering cannot stand! #EndBlackLung #StopSilicosis
westvirginiawatch.com/2026/1…
Sam Brown Petsonk retweeted
TALARICO: When I left the hospital, I went to Walgreens to pick up my first 30 day supply of insulin—this new medicine that I now needed to live, and it cost me $684. I didn't have that kind of money, so I put it on a credit card. So many Texans with diabetes can't afford their insulin, can't afford the medicine that they need to live. And it's all because big pharma has a monopoly..
Sam Brown Petsonk retweeted
.@JamesTalarico: Before I was a politician, I was a 6th grade language arts teacher in San Antonio.
We rank 43rd in the nation in per-student funding, and we are nickel-and-diming the most important professionals in our communities. We need to fully fund the Department of Education, guarantee universal high-quality early childhood education, and pass a long-overdue pay raise for our educators.
Sending a teacher to the United States Senate from Texas will go a long way toward achieving that goal.
Sam Brown Petsonk retweeted
I’m tired of being divided into teams.
Do you want a safe neighborhood?
Do you want a good job with good benefits?
Do you want a high quality, well funded public school?
So do I. We’re far more the same than we are different.
As one team, we’re unstoppable.
Sam Brown Petsonk retweeted
State schools officials twice took aim at West Virginia's strained school funding, first proposing a new framework for legislative consideration and then taking a formal position that the current school funding system is constitutionally inadequate.
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Sam Brown Petsonk retweeted
Excuse us, @wvgovernor, but you forgot to include a link to the article you claim "misrepresented" your administration's plans and that you dismissed as "fake news."
Don't worry, we've got your back!
And because we stand behind the reporting at the heart of this article and encourage all West Virginians to read it and draw their own conclusions, we've removed the paywall, making this piece of important journalism free to read for everyone.
Check out Mike Tony's story below and thanks for supporting local journalism.
wvgazettemail.com/news/energ… via @wvgazettemail
The Gazette got it wrong. This Friday’s story intentionally misrepresented my administration’s energy plans without giving me a chance to address their claims and slanted coverage.
Here's the truth: We are pursuing nuclear generation and manufacturing to bring high-paying jobs to West Virginia. Our recent application to the U.S. Department of Energy was part of that effort. We want to build on our existing strengths in coal and natural gas to create more jobs and opportunity, stronger communities, and a higher standard of living.
But West Virginia will not be a dumping ground for nuclear waste. Period.
I have directed my Office of Energy to ensure that every site identified in our final Nuclear Campus application is considered only for nuclear generation or manufacturing - not as a dump.
I will keep fighting for investments that can bring thousands of high-paying jobs to our state. I will also protect West Virginia’s beauty and heritage. We can pursue new opportunities without becoming a dumping ground.
More energy jobs and manufacturing jobs are on the table. Nuclear waste dumps are not. We've had enough fake news.
Sam Brown Petsonk retweeted
"People who are engaged are happier. They will vote," she said. "They will vote when they believe that we can make a difference and that we’re putting up candidates that are fighting to make a difference, fighting to make things better for them.”
Rachel Fetty Anderson, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, wants voters to know they have a choice this November versus Republican U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito.
newsandsentinel.com/news/loc…
Sam Brown Petsonk retweeted
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor.
This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why.
Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people. theintercept.com/2026/09/23/…
Sam Brown Petsonk retweeted
My last story with @WV_Watch is out today.
I combed through and logged all WV locality spending of opioid settlement funds in FY2025, and then put it all in handy tables for you to search yourself.
Look and see where your community prioritized spending:
westvirginiawatch.com/2026/0…
Well that don't sound good!
EDITORIAL: The costs continue to mount for a war without a plan.
wvgazettemail.com/opinion/ed…
WHY would @Ford Fathom not have 200+kw max charging speed?! Do you want to relegate this truck to obscurity? Give it a useful fast charging speed. My Hyundai Ioniq 5 can max at so much higher than a Lightning, it's not even close. Be competitive, or you'll lose market share!
Sam Brown Petsonk retweeted
On this Labor Day, a reminder that the largest labor uprising in U.S. history happened in the hills of WV in 1921. Here’s a great documentary on the legacy of Blair Mountain (s/o @realcindiadkins) from WCHS. youtu.be/nPnnw0yVNGk
Sam Brown Petsonk retweeted
West Virginia’s business leaders continue to beat the drum that the state is woefully short on affordable childcare spots.
Via @WV_Watch
wvgazettemail.com/news/legis…
Sam Brown Petsonk retweeted
The Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center in Huntington is hosting a special screening of "9 to 5," a 1980 comedy film. All proceeds from the event will support Parton's Imagination Library of West Virginia.
wvgazettemail.com/arts_and_e…
Sam Brown Petsonk retweeted
West Virginia has high death rates for respiratory diseases, and some of its most populous cities have concentrations well above the national average for a harmful air pollutant called particulate matter.
wvgazettemail.com/news/energ…
