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Gail Manchin asked some questions in a recent speech when a woman commented that those who speak in tongs and draws face some assumptions about their intellect.
She said, “People wouldn’t think you were wise,” recalled Manchin, who is married to Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin.
“I didn’t know that,” Manchin told the speaker. “She said,’Oh, that’s right.'”
“Well, I know I always had it-I call it” Twang “-West Virginia Twang,” she said, raising it for the effect. So, “with a Harvard accent, they will automatically know more about what you’re talking about,” she said, properly overturning her woman’s beliefs.
No one doubts that Gale Manchin knows about Appalachia, whether it’s Twan or not. The proof is none other than President Joe Biden, who nominated her to lead the region’s federal economic development agency last year.
Manchin’s position required Senate approval, but the process was by no means daunting to her. She said, “I think I had that advantage … I know a lot of senators not only personally … but also politically about what matters.”
If confirmed, Manchin will reach the heights of new professionals as a principle of federal public services, staff will be adjacent and armed with a budget.
“I knew that President Biden really understood the American countryside,” Manchin explained how she felt “thundered” on that occasion. “And I don’t believe there was a president in my life who thought he really really understood the American countryside …”
Her Senate confirmation vote was unanimous, and so she became the second Manchin to work for Washington’s federal government on her own budget and staff. Gail and Joe Manchin are not the first couple to take on Washington together. Elaine Chao served as both Transport and Secretary of Labor, and her husband Mitch McConnell served in the Senate. He is currently a Republican minority leader.
Lexington, Kentucky – April 8: Galemantin, Federal Co-Chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission (Digital), will speak on stage at the 2022 Concordia Lexington Summit in Lexington, Kentucky.
Photo by John Cherry / Getty Images of Concordia
Joe Manchin played an oversized role in the Senate as an important swing vote in the 50-50 Senate during the Biden administration. He helped shape the bipartisan infrastructure law, and he rang the bell of death when he said that a more ambitious spending bill supported by progressives and the president would not have his vote.
Hoppy Carvechar, the host of a local West Virginia talk show, wrote last year: [nomination] Good for Gail Manchin and West Virginia. But not so much for her husband, Joe Manchin. ”
File: Sen. Joe Manchin, DW.Va. , Left, and her wife Gale Connelly Manchin arrives at the White House on Friday for a state dinner with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and President Donald Trump. In Washington, 20th 2019.
AP Photo / Patrick Semanski
Whether it was fair or not, especially because of the power he exercises in Congress, Manchin’s nomination came from a sort of Washington’s coziness, “avoided,” given Joe Manchin’s excellence. There will be no “political perception,” Kirshval said.
Gail Manchin said he was careful to separate his work from his husband’s work. “I think we are a good team,” Manchin said. “And I think we complement each other. But he is certainly in charge of his career and the role he plays in his work, and I am my career and my role, I’ve been in charge of the role I play. ”
And what does she think of all the attention the moderate senator received this year?
“Well, that’s what I say,” Manchin said with a laugh. “This is me.”
A year after work, Manchin said he hadn’t met Mr. Biden yet to discuss Appalachia, but she’s trying other ways to reach him. At a recent luncheon for her Senate spouse, Manchin said she was approaching First Lady Jill Biden. “And I always say,’Thank you for your husband for me.'”
Sitting with Manchin in the Commission’s obscure glass Washington office building, she may commute on foot from her home in DC. Her role, as chairman of the 57-year-old Appalachia Regional Commission, seems to have aimed for 13 years of economic development. The province of Appalachia came at the right time.
After decades of public service as a school teacher and as West Virginia’s First Lady and Governor of West Virginia. Jim Justice appointed her to lead the state’s Education and Arts Department in 2017. During her tenure, Gale Manchin proved that she was not, like her husband, a person who would move away from political battles.
Approximately a year after joining the West Virginia state government, she confronted justice after a Republican-led state legislature passed a bill that she thought would threaten her sector.
When justice did not respond, Manchin issued a statement that publicly pressured justice to reject the bill. Instead of calling her, her governor wrote, “She became very critical and political and put me in a very bad position.”
Manchin was unknown. “I don’t think it’s just because I’m Joe Manchin’s wife. I believe they think they need to get Democrats out of influence. In this state. I think Republicans believe that everyone in this position should be a Republican, “she later told Kervechal. In fact, the judge, who was a Democrat until 2016, changed his party affiliation to the Republican Party in 2017.
Now, four years later, in her new role in the federal government, Manchin, the Federal Co-Chair of the Commission, is working closely with the Governor of Appalachia (including justice).
“Well, first and foremost, we now have an incredible co-chair, right?” Justice Gale at the beginning of a roundtable meeting with two other governors in May.・ Mr. Manchin said. “Thank you very much. And really, at the end of the day, you got a real passion, and absolutely that’s what drives everything,” Justice told Manchin with a smile. “So you got the ball, and we’re going straight behind. So tell me what play to do. Do it.”
Manchin laughed when asked how the relationship between the two became smoother. “As long as I was, you couldn’t live in the world of politics … you can’t hold a grudge. You can move on,” she said. “And something that might look like a bad thing that happened, that is, if he didn’t fire me, maybe I wouldn’t have had the chance to do this? So maybe he agrees with me. I think he did. ”
If that isn’t clear yet, Manchin enjoys politics. “I’m probably one of the few people in the world who doesn’t consider” politics “a dirty word. I get angry when someone campaigns and says, “I’m not a politician, I’m a businessman,” or whatever they claim, you know. ” Said Manchin. “For me, you say you are a politician, you say you are interested in trying to influence the policies of where you live.”
In her role, she has met all 13 Appalachian governors except Kathy Hochul in New York, while in Washington. She can often be found to meet with the Biden Cabinet secretary.
“I don’t think I’ve ever been timid to step up to the plate,” she said of the talks with these political leaders, especially when she could share a regional perspective.
In December, Galemanchin was at the White House meeting at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building meeting while Capitol Hill Democrats were discussing Biden’s signature “Build Back Better” social spending package, a bill in which her husband was involved in the killing. Next door officials on how to revitalize the coal and power plant community.
Manchin sits in the center of the room, next to Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, and other White House top executives, and the group has recently passed a bipartisan infrastructure law (supported by her husband). Has been)-it has increased the budget of the Appalachian Commission to $ 1 billion — and how the law supports broadband connections in the region.
A few months ago, she helped Appalachia, who has roots in the December meeting, win a big victory. One businessman in attendance said he was “exploring” the idea of opening a battery manufacturing company in Appalachia.
“Mrs. Manchin was distrustful of her face,” recalled businessman Sanjiv Malhotra. When he said it was a Silicon Valley company [Manchin’s] Distrust has turned into complete distrust, “he said. She looked a little suspicious.
“And I don’t blame her. There are quite a few entrepreneurs in California, especially Silicon Valley, who tend to be this volatile,” Malhotra recalls. Its appearance was justified, as I admitted.
However, his company subsequently announced in March its intention to build a 100% cobalt-free battery plant in Charleston, West Virginia. Manchin stood by Biden’s officials, and her husband, to welcome the public-private partnership venture.
Manchin’s job is not only to meet with key business development executives and entrepreneurs, but also to travel the area and investigate dozens of commission-funded projects. She has already arrived in 11 of the 13 provinces of Appalachia.
Mayor Liz Ordiales of Hiawassee, Georgia, said he was nervous about meeting with Manchin after visiting her town with other officials. “You’re always a little skeptical, you know she’s a big player,” Ordiales said.
However, after Manchin changed from a business suit to jeans for the tour, he started a business incubator with a $ 600,000 grant and asked detailed questions about plans to order pizza and red wine at dinner before Ordiales. The group was relieved.
Ordiales praised the Commission for “moving the city from kindergarten to a master’s degree” and was happy to show Manchin how her commission was supporting a small town. Told.
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