Voters have re-elected Republican John Mandt Jr. just months after he resigned from his position in the West Virginia House of Delegates following the release of anti-LGBTQ messages he allegedly sent to a Facebook chat group.
Mandt was reelected by a slim margin of 71 votes. Mandt claimed the leaked messages which contained anti-gay slurs and other disparaging remarks were fabricated, but at least one person authenticated them according to the Herald Dispatch.
The newspaper says the Facebook chat group “The Right Stuff,” which included conservative lawmakers in the state as well as candidates for office, used “anti-gay and anti-Muslim language, and uses anti-gay slurs and other disparaging remarks about other delegates, candidates in the