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Rockefeller seeks new term in state where he was ‘kind of reborn'
By Mannix Porterfield
Register-Herald reporter
Just when it appeared Friday would slip by as an uneventful day of candidate filings, in walked Sen. Jay Rockefeller, accompanied by wife Sharon and other members of his family in tow.
Rockefeller filed for re-election to the U.S. Senate, a post he won back in 1984 in an unexpected close contest with Republican rival John Raese.
A member of one of America 's wealthier and more prominent families, Rockefeller has won re-election easily in succeeding years after his initial success. No one in either party so far has filed to challenge him this year.
With the Rockefellers were son Charles and daughter Valerie Wayne, with her husband, Steve Wayne, and children Lucy and Percy.
“There's so much to do,” the Democratic senator replied when asked why he wanted another six-year term.
“West Virginia always has a lot of challenges. I've come so close to the people I instinctively know what those challenges are. And I'm absolutely unrelenting in my desire to help. And so, it's a bond of friendship.”
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