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Look to her service

By Staff | Sep 23, 2022

One way to look at those folks interested in elected office, is to look at what they’ve been doing all their lives. How have they spent their time and energies over the long haul? Have they gone from point A to point B in a way consistent with their beliefs, or are they all over the road, blown from left to right by the winds of popular fashion? Knowing how Hannah Geffert, candidate for the West Virginia Senate from the 16th District, has led her life, makes it easy to decide that she is the best person to represent us in Charleston.

Wherever and whenever there has been any kind of effort in our Eastern Panhandle to make life better for its people, Hannah Geffert has been there. Her life’s history here is a study in serious commitment. She has been a teacher, radio commentator, administrator, activist, historian, board member and working parent. The list of organizations for which she has worked, often as a volunteer, makes her commitment clear: Shepherd University, Shenandoah Community Health, Martinsburg Children’s Garden, United Way, Berkeley County Backpack, Reach Out and Read and the Apollo Theatre, among many others. She has provided information, education, inspiration, perspiration and day care while, at the same time, raising her family and playing in a bluegrass band. And, maybe best of all, she is not a career politician! She has no designs on statewide office.

All she wants to do is continue to make things here better and more just, with good quality education, jobs and wages for everyone in the Eastern Panhandle. I think we should let her do that.

Come November, please vote to keep Hannah Geffert our state senator. Thank you.

Richard Mier, of Martinsburg