Axios: Opioid ties emerges as liability for both parties in West Virginia
Attacks abound in both the GOP primary and the general election.
Both the GOP and Democratic candidates for the West Virginia senate race have ties to Big Pharma. State Attorney General Patrick Morissey’s wife lobbied for Cardinal Health, the largest distributor of opiates in West Virginia. Democratic incumbent Joe Manchin’s daughter serves as the CEO of Mylan Pharmaceuticals, notorious for hiking the price of necessary EpiPens and making fentanyl patches. This is quite the race to the bottom.
