The Mountain Party is a new West Virginia political organization which intends to become the alternative to "politics as usual" in our state. It is a party comprised of people who love their state and recognize the special quality of life West Virginia provides.

The Mountain Party is based on the values average WV citizens can support such as:

A living wage for all WV workers

Community based schools (just say no to Charleston-ordered school consolidation)

Protecting our air, water and natural beauty

Making king coal and other big business pay their fair share

Planning West Virginia's post-coal economy

Developing and protecting our special quality of life into the next century

Working endlessly to restore basic democratic principles and practices in government by dismantling the good ol boy political machine and replacing it with politics as if people mattered

This party is being built from the ground up with the support of people like you who are fed up with the one-party monopoly which rules WV disguised as the two-party system.

The parties of the wealthy special interests will never let a people's candidate prevail as was demonstrated by the Pritt campaign. This is why a new political organization is needed now more than ever.

The effort to elect Denise Giardina is the beginning of a movement that will outlast the 2000 elections. Giardina's 2000 campaign will establish the Mountain Party as a bona-fide political party with a ballot line in all state and local races in future elections.

Together we will govern West Virginia for the benefit of its citizens and not to fatten the wallets of out-of-state special interests. Join with us to make it happen!