Vance, he says, “is exactly the type of person that keeps investors away from Appalachia. And that runs exactly counter to Kilgore’s own message, which is that Appalachia has gotten a bad rap over the years. Kilgore feels that Vance’s book is one big smear against Appalachia that portrays the region’s people as lazy, ignorant and worse. You don’t mess with Texas and, when it comes to Appalachia, you don’t mess with Frank Kilgore. Indeed, while Vance is in the title, Kilgore’s book directs equal ire at both Vance on the right and singer Bette Midler on the left after she recently said some unflattering things about West Virginia. Kilgore says he considers himself an independent. He also married into a Republican family – his wife is Virginia Supreme Court Justice Theresa Chafin, sister of the late state Sen. The Virginia Public Access Project shows that all of his political contributions since the 1990s have been to Republicans. In the 1980s, Kilgore was a Democrat but says he became disenchanted with the party and left – as did a lot of others in the coalfields, as election returns attest. 1 spot.īefore we go further, we should address Kilgore’s own politics since Vance is now a candidate. It’s available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble and, since its release, has consistently been in the Top 10 in the “historical essays” category on Amazon sometimes even holding down the No. Vance Is a Fake Hillbilly: Think Twice Before Calling (All) Coalfield Appalachians Racists, Sexists and Ignoramuses.” It came out in late August, self-published through Kilgore’s Fake Hillbilly Publishing. He sat down and wrote his own book: “J.D. You can’t be that left-wing on the talk shows and then that far right and have a soul or a conscience.” He’s just a chameleon using his slight knowledge of Appalachia just for financial and political gain. “He went on all the liberal talk shows and talked their language and then went hard right. “He was flip-flopping so much,” Kilgore says. “I thought everybody has a right to their opinions.”īut then Kilgore kept seeing Vance on television. When Vance’s book came out, “I kind of ignored it after I read it,” Kilgore says. Vance, of course, is the author of the best-selling “Hillbilly Elegy” – and now the Republican candidate for U.S. He might write a letter to the editor or an op-ed. Why would he do this? “I love our area and when I think I’m onto something and I’m right, I put my own time and money in it,” he says.Īnd if somebody somewhere disparages the region, oh boy, watch out. He paid $10,000 but collected donations to cover $2,000 of that. When Kilgore felt local officials weren’t calling enough attention to the region’s students having the best Standards of Learning scores in the state, he took it upon himself to buy full-page ads in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, The Roanoke Times and The (Charlottesville) Daily Progress (and maybe a fourth paper he can’t remember) to talk them up. 15.This Kilgore has been the driving force behind two educational institutions founded in the coalfields – Appalachian School of Law in Grundy and the Appalachian College of Pharmacy in Oakwood. The contact was minimal, unintentional and made zero difference to the outcome. When you see it in real time and the full scene, you realise Mendy had parried it miles away straight to Cornet to score. Hugh Molloy: “The ‘foul’ on Mendy was shown in nothing other than zoomed in super slow-mo. Jeff Sachs: “Daylight robbery! West Ham were ripped off.” Jon Rogers: “As a lifelong Chelsea fan, let me say that West Ham have been absolutely robbed by having their second goal disallowed. Certainly Mendy got himself out of jail by exaggerating the contact and rolling around on the floor rather than trying to save the shot. Was he right? Well, if there was a foul there, you’d need to look pretty closely to spot it. But Jarrod Bowen had been following the backpass in, and the referee (after a VAR check) deemed the West Ham man had clipped the stricken Mendy with his foot after the keeper had pushed the ball away. To better explain that late decision at Stamford Bridge: a headed backpass was bouncing through to Edouard Mendy, who was badly indecisive in coming to gather it, eventually scampering out to push the ball away weakly, straight to the feet of Maxwel Cornet who blammed home from the penalty spot.
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