Iwas very pleased last Monday to hear Gov. Patrick Morrisey say that the decision to leave behind a volunteer contingent of West Virginia National Guard members was his.

“I made the decision to have the word come down that we would ask the people if they wanted to volunteer,” Morrisey said during his first press conference with West Virginia media since the shooting on Nov. 26 of two Guard members during their Washington, D.C., deployment by an Afghan national, one of whom died.

I was pleased because the weekend after the shooting, a number of social media posts were made on the governor’s accounts that appeared to be trying to distance Morrisey from the decision-making process that led those two Guard members to volunteer to stay, as well as setting up straw-man arguments.

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