Michael Mosteller II
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Michael Mosteller II (Democratic Party) ran for election to the West Virginia House of Delegates to represent District 21. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Mosteller completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Michael Mosteller was born in Charleston, West Virginia. His career experience includes working as a delivery driver. Mosteller has been affilaited with the Putnam County Pedalers Mountain Bike Team.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: West Virginia House of Delegates elections, 2024
General election
General election for West Virginia House of Delegates District 21
Incumbent Jarred Cannon defeated Michael Mosteller II in the general election for West Virginia House of Delegates District 21 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jarred Cannon (R) | 69.0 | 5,820 |
 | Michael Mosteller II (D)  | 31.0 | 2,612 | |
| Total votes: 8,432 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for West Virginia House of Delegates District 21
Michael Mosteller II advanced from the Democratic primary for West Virginia House of Delegates District 21 on May 14, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Michael Mosteller II | 100.0 | 757 |
| Total votes: 757 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for West Virginia House of Delegates District 21
Incumbent Jarred Cannon advanced from the Republican primary for West Virginia House of Delegates District 21 on May 14, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jarred Cannon | 100.0 | 2,281 |
| Total votes: 2,281 | |||
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Endorsements
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Mosteller received the following endorsements.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Michael Mosteller II completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Mosteller's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I am a progressive democrat and I want to bring empathy and realism back to politics. I am the father of a family of four, and I want to make this state a better place for my children to live in.
- Have empathy for others. There’s no need to “own” the other side. We are all in this together and we can work together to make our state better. Empathize with the many West Virginians who have fallen prey to addiction. Let’s move more toward treating addicts rather than imprisoning them. Have empathy for the women who have to face the tough choice of abortion and keep the government out of their personal business.
- Look to the future. Making things better for our children doesn’t mean making sure they are wealthy. It means giving them a world that isn’t being decimated by climate change, that isn’t owned by a handful of people, and one they can be proud to call their own.
- Bring about positive change. Let’s bring clean energy jobs to this state. That doesn’t mean taking away from our state’s proud tradition of coal mining, it means supplementing our power grid with clean energy.
Women’s rights to bodily autonomy, union jobs, teachers, our public education system, and the environment.
I look up to my father, who recently passed away. I would like to follow his example because he always treated everyone with respect. Everywhere he worked, people would tell me how well he treated them and how kind and empathetic he was. He always left a positive impact on everyone around him. He taught me that no matter what my position is at a company, you always treat the janitor the same way you treat the CEO.
There is a YouTube channel called “Beau of the Fifth Column” and my political philosophy lines up pretty well with his.
Leadership, empathy, the ability to keep one’s cool under fire. Standing up to the bullies, standing up against dark money and the interests they represent. Moral integrity, honesty, and the ability to work together to bring about positive change.
I listen to the people of my district and have empathy for them. I have a deep desire to give West Virginians a fair shake.
To write laws that benefit everyone in our state. These laws should protect the citizens and workers, and regulate big corporations so we don’t have any more mine explosions or chemical spills into our drinking water systems.
I would like to have an impact on fellow legislators that would make them more empathetic to each other and to their constituents. I want to bring down the temperature in todays political climate.
I was too young to remember the Challenge disaster, so the Berlin Wall coming down was the first major event I remember. I was 7 years old at the time.
I worked for a web design company during the dot com boom. I worked there for a year and a half. I started that job right out of high school.
It’s America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction by Jon Stewart. He really gets at the shortcomings of our politicians and pokes fun at the absurdities of the system. He holds a mirror up to the faces of many of the things that are wrong in politics.
I would be captain Casey from Chicago Fire. I used to be a firefighter, and there was an episode where he ran for public office. His moral turpitude and integrity are unimpeachable and he always stands up for what’s right.
Should’ve Been a Cowboy by Toby Keith, a week before he passed away.
I’ve always struggled with self doubt. If I do something, or make a choice, I’ll dwell on whether or not it was the right one.
The ideal relationship is one where the state legislature puts forth bills that the public wants. It would be ideal to have a good relationship with the Governor where he would sign whatever bill the people want, but that sometimes isn’t always the case. In such a case, the legislature should override the veto, while maintaining a good working relationship with the governor.
Our state’s greatest challenges are dealing with addiction, fixing our education system, lifting people out of poverty, and finding a way to participate in manufacturing and implementing renewable energy.
I think it is beneficial to have experience. I also think it’s beneficial to be an outsider with no experience, to come to the Capitol full of ideas and being eager to implement them.
It’s not just beneficial, it’s necessary. No matter their party, if you build relationships with other legislators, that can help the legislature run more smoothly. It can make the atmosphere more enjoyable. A tense atmosphere where people don’t get along would be harmful to the legislative process and to the people of West Virginia.
Joe Manchin III. He never ran a negative political ad. He always stayed calm in tense situations and is a genuinely nice and caring person. I’ll never forget when he spent time with the families of the victims of two different mine explosions. He dropped what he was doing and immediately went to them. He didn’t do it for the cameras and was more focused on comforting the families than he was about optics.
I’m not really sure. I’ll have to see what it’s like to be a legislator first.
I’ma coach for a mountain bike team in my district. Many of the other coaches are teachers. I’ve heard story after story of how badly they’ve been treated by our legislature, how little they’re paid and how their benefits get repeatedly slashed. They have to buy a lot of supplies for their class out of pocket. It blows my mind that we’re not taking care of the very people who take care of and teach our children day in and day out. These people are literally shaping our children’s future and they’ve been treated so badly by our legislature.
A guy walked into a fancy bar and the bartender told the man he couldn’t be in there without a tie on. The man walked out to his truck and grabbed a pair of jumper cables and wrapped them around his neck and tied them in a Windsor knot. He walks back in and the bartender looks at him and said “what’s this?” The man said “it’s a tie. You didn’t say what material it had to be, so I used the cables in my truck.” The bartender says “well I suppose you’re right, I’ll let you stay a little while. Just don’t start nothin.”
It really depends. The Governor has the ability to declare a state of emergency but I do believe the legislature should oversee the governor’s actions during this time because no one should have unchecked power. The legislature couldn’t function well with emergency powers because it’s designed to be deliberately slow and would take too long to execute emergency actions.
I would reintroduce the bill that I wrote in response to the 2012 water crisis where chemicals leaked into a river and into our water supply. I typed it up and gave it to the delegate from my district. He took it to committee, a few small changes were made and it was passed. It’s a shame that bill was repealed recently.
I’ve had several private citizens endorse my campaign but it’s too early for endorsements from organizations. I’m very pro union so I am hoping to receive the endorsement of many unions.
Environmental, oversight, ethics, etc.
Financial transparency and government accountability are mandatory to having and keeping a healthy democracy. When you have unaccountable politicians funded by dark money, they benefit while the average West Virginian suffers.
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See also
2024 Elections
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- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 12, 2024
