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McCain Picks WV Director

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Posted: 9:52 PM Jun 23, 2008
Last Updated: 9:52 PM Jun 23, 2008
Reporter: The Associated Press
Email Address: news@wsaz.com

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A former chief of staff for Secretary
of State Betty Ireland will help direct GOP presidential candidate
John McCain's West Virginia campaign.

Ben Beakes was named executive director of the campaign during
last weekend's state GOP summer convention in Flatwoods.

West Virginia McCain Chairman Larry Swann says Beakes' job will
be to open an office and assemble a state campaign staff.

Swann says a state campaign office will be opened in Charleston
within the month.

Beakes served as the state party's political director before
joining Ireland in 2005. He left the secretary of state's office
last year.

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Posted by: Tuffcat on Jun 26, 2008 at 06:32 PM
Sonny Lanham. Did you ask him about his PRISON record.

Posted by: WV Voter on Jun 24, 2008 at 08:49 PM
This sounds good compared to Hussein Obama, Rich and Rotten Rockefeller, a Dead Bird and Maffia Manchin.

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