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ELKINS -- State Senator Bill Hamilton, R-11th District, is warning voters of the dangers of "dark money" in state elections.
"What I want to talk about is a bill that I've had, I've had it for probably five or six years. And then when I went into the Senate I introduced the bill there," Hamilton said during the Randolph County Republican Executive Committee's Lincoln Day Dinner recently.
"It's concerned with dark money and campaigns. Now, next year we've got a big election coming up. We've got a governor's race, attorney general. All of our public works. U.S. Senate, Congress.
"My bill, all it does is, it says that a PAC has to publish its donors' names and addresses," Hamilton said. "Every one of us who's running, we have to do that now. So what's the difference?"
During the dinner, Hamilton also voiced his support for West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner as a Republican in the 2024 race for governor.
"I heard a comment the other night at the Farm Bureau," Hamilton said. "A gentleman told me that Mac Warner and all the county clerks together had taken out of the voting roles 400,000 people from West Virginia since he's been your secretary of state.
"You all clapped for that, so I know you're not liberal, you're conservative. Because the liberals will say, 'That's terrible, you took away people's right to vote.' Well, we took it away because they were dead."
Hamilton is the chair of the state Senate's Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee.
"I spent 16 years in the House representing 90% of Upshur County, and then the last five years I've represented the 11th District, and so I went from one county to seven," Hamilton said during the Lincoln Day Dinner.
District 11 includes all of Randolph, Upshur, Pocahontas, Pendleton, Webster and Nicholas counties, and some of Grant County.