Election 2008 Shorts (Updated)

• MetroNews' Talkline interviews former justice and Democratic Supreme Court candidate Margaret Workman. With audio.

• Democratic congressional candidate and former South Charleston mayor (and Republican) Richie Robb has agreed to represent GOP gubernatorial candidate Russ Weeks (a former state senator) in his announced lawsuit challenging "a retroactive increase in per diem allowances for lawmakers," The Register-Herald of Beckley reports. The Charleston Gazette also has a story.

• An unidentified stockholder wants greater disclosure of Massey Energy's political expenditures, citing past campaigns bankrolled by CEO Don Blankenship, The Associated Press reports. The proposed resolution was part of an SEC filing that details compensation for Blankenship that totaled $23.7 million in 2007, AP calculates.

• The Register-Herald also covered a recent candidates' forum for area legislative candidates, while The Journal of Martinsburg profiles a local House hopeful.

• The Intelligencer of Wheeling reports on appeals to labor made by Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in advance of neighboring Pennsylvania's April 22 primary.

• (Update) The Associated Press looks at campaign finance reports from West Virginia's congressional incumbents and challengers.

• (Update) The Herald-Dispatch of Huntington highlights upcoming candidate forums in the secretary of state and Supreme Court races.

• (Update) The Journal covered separate forums of the Democratic Secretary of State and Supreme Court candidates.