Lawmakers here can cook, count, drive, teach and even preach.
They can build a house - then insure it and sell it. They can also treat patients and fill prescriptions - then bury the ones who don't make it. So if West Virginia's 134 legislators landed on a remote island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean or got lost in the Australian Outback, they just might survive. Sen. Bob Plymale, D-Wayne, who managers a lumber company, could provide the wood. Delegate Sheirl Fletcher, R-Monongalia, an engineer, could make sure the structure is sound.