Mike Oliverio

Well, it's not so much that I didn't like the billboard.

So, you're referring to, uh, Mike Oliverio, current incumbent Republican, uh, recent Republican, former Democrat senator.

Uh, during the Oklahoma State game, uh, put up a billboard or maybe several billboards.

I never actually saw them.

Um, I'm imagining they would have to be some of these more digital ones, uh, although [chuckles] don't put anything past him.

But the-- he had, uh, an advert out on social media that said something to the effect of, "If you can't, uh, watch the game or you're on the road, look up and keep an eye out for my billboards.

I'll keep you posted on the scores of WVU versus Oklahoma State." And, you know, I made a post about it because, um, as, you know, altruistic as his intent may be, I think it kinda just speaks to the kind of legislator Mike Oliverio is.

I mean, this is the year of our Lord, 2026, Ty.

So you're running against, um, there's a Republican incumbent and a Democrat in the race.

The, the incumbent is, uh, Mike Oliverio, right?

Yeah.

If you wanna call him a Republican, you can do that.

We're talking with Taylor Richmond.

He is a Libertarian Party candidate for West Virginia Senate District 13, Morgantown, Fairmont areas.

Mike Oliverio is the Republican incumbent.

There's a Democrat running as well in that race coming up November 3rd.

Now you're out there campaigning in West Virginia.

You're at no risk, obviously, very conservative Republican seat, but we got a couple of members of the State House and the State Senate that are in tough races, Mike Oliverio being one of them.

Just give us a lay of the land.

How do things look in West Virginia?

yeah you touched on it there uh john and look one of the mike oliverio is in a very difficult race that's obviously there in morgantown but mike is a great campaigner he's doing a great job out there i'm also keeping an eye on uh in charnock down in charleston that's another state senate race and then laura chapman up in the northern panhandle She's got a pretty tough opponent up there, Sean Fluharty as well.

So those are the Senate seats.

Obviously, we got some House seats that are also potentially at play.

These are all Republicans.

Senator Mike Oliverio, the Italian stallion.

He represents Morgantown.

He's my state senator, West Virginia State Senator, District 13, up for re-election.

The difference in my race is I voted to cut people's taxes so that they would have more dollars in their pocket to address the affordability concerns.

And my opponent voted not to do that.

So if affordability is your issue and you're having trouble paying for things, you've got a state senator, Mike Oliverio, who reduced your state income taxes by over 30% that eliminated the West Virginia personal income tax on Social Security that voted to rebate your car tax so that you get that back.

And those are some things that my opponent didn't do.

And we're going to start off in Senate District 13.

In Senate District 13, you have incumbent Mike Oliverio, who used to be a Democrat, running as a Republican.

You have Democrat John Williams, who's currently in the House of Delegates, running on the Democrat side.

And you have Libertarian candidate Taylor Richmond running.