Billionaire Governor Jim Justice said that any president is welcome in West Virginia—except Obama
It’s been a tough year for Justice. The pandemic, he reportedly said, is like being “lost in a movie that we can’t relate to in any way.” On top of that, the first-term governor is fighting for his political life, facing a primary challenge next week from former commerce secretaryBut among his biggest obstacles is himself.
Another case involves a contract dispute between Justice’s Dynamic Energy coal company and CM Energy, which paid him nearly $100 million for reserves of metallurgical coal at a mine called Coal Mountain. The deal stipulated that if CM couldn’t sell the produced coal for at least $100 per ton, that Dynamic would pay CM back half the difference, up to $25 million.
And then there’s Justice’s other big distraction — the Greenbrier Hotel, a money pit that Justice bought out of bankruptcy a decade ago and which still needs repairs and upgrades following catastrophic flooding in 2016. Justice has refused to pay $609,000 allegedly owed to a claims adjusting company that secured $39 million for Greenbrier following the floods. He was looking for $100 million or more. The company, Goodman-Gable-Gould Adjusters International has sued.
It’s a lot even for a peripatetic tycoon like Justice to handle. Depending on how he does in the June 9 gubernatorial primary, he may soon have enough time in his schedule to get it all sorted out.
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