Attorney General Darrell McGraw continues to catch flak from legislators over some of his office's policies, particularly its handling of settlement proceeds.
The Charleston Daily Mail focuses on sharp exchanges between McGraw and the House Finance Committee, as he presented his office's budget request.
Delegate John Doyle, D-Jefferson, summed up for McGraw a key criticism of lawmakers:
That is your attempts, once you've won the money, to appropriate it. That is constitutionally the job of the Legislature to appropriate money. The minute your office or any office gets money for the state of West Virginia, that money is instantly the property of the taxpayers of West Virginia. Therefore, the Legislature must decide how it is spent."McGraw has maintained judges ultimately determine how settlement money should be spent," the article said. It added that judges "sign off on settlement agreements written by attorneys involved in a case."
Update: Public Broadcasting also covered the House Finance meeting, and has audio.
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