“Other than GOD above and my family, I place my duties as Governor above all else,” he thundered in a statement sent out on Tuesday evening. His antagonists were three retirees who sit on the school board in Greenbrier County, 110 miles southeast of the state capital. Jim Justice to coach the boys’ varsity basketball team at Greenbrier East High School. “Of course, it does.”This blast of dudgeon over his authority to coach the boys’ basketball team in his spare time — he already coaches the girls’ team — was par for the course in Mr. Justice’s tenure as governor of West Virginia. A coal mining tycoon and the state’s richest person, Mr. Justice, whose two terms in office have been richly marbled with conflicts of interest, has generally bulldozed past various rules and obligations.

Source: New York Times September 22, 2021 17:12 UTC