W.Va. lawmaker who resigned over slurs returns to statehouse

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A Republican lawmaker in West Virginia who resigned after posting an anti-gay slur is set to elude political consequences now that he has won back his seat. John Mandt stepped down as a Statehouse delegate in the heat of his reelection campaign last October after screenshots showed him using the slur in a Facebook Messenger group. It had been the latest in a series of discriminatory remarks from him about gay people and Muslims. But he reversed his decision to bow