Remember those coal miners posing behind Romney a couple of weeks ago?

[senseandsensibility]

I posted a thread at the time that they looked like character actors complete with dirty faces. It turned out that they were real coal miners, although not union ones.

Well, surprise, surprise.... now some of them are now claiming that they were forced to pose like that, and docked a day's pay for the privilege.

Just heard on the Bashir show which I recorded. How sad if true, and I wish working people would hear about this from our corporate media.

[PDJane]

1. Yep, heard that too.

And the spokesperson was dancing around about it, but it seems to be true.

[senseandsensibility]

2. I'm glad you heard it too.

I could tell from their body language at the time that something was funny.

[femmocrat]

7. Yes, I wrote about it too. It was very suspicious.

I knew those guys had to be forced to stand there. Disgusting and un-American, IMO.

[Brickbat]

3. There were several threads about it today here at DU; the Cleveland Plain-Dealer is one newspaper

that wrote about it. http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2012/08/coal_miners_lost_pay_when_mitt.html

[senseandsensibility]

10. I really hope the Dems use this.

Thanks for the link.

[Brickbat]

11. What would they use? What would it look like?

[Poiuyt]

4. Here's an article about it

Murray Energy Miners Allege They Had To Give Up Pay To Attend 'Mandatory' Romney Rally (AUDIO)

snip
The claims have been mostly denied by Rob Moore, Chief Financial Officer of Murray Energy Company, which owns the mine. He acknowledges that workers weren’t paid that day but says no one was made to attend the event. Well, kind of.

"Our managers communicated to our workforce that the attendance at the Romney event was mandatory, but no one was forced to attend," he told local news radio WWVA, which has received several emails from workers claiming that the company records names of workers that don't attend those types of events.

more-

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/28/century-mine-romney-ohio-mandatory_n_1836674.html

[senseandsensibility]

6. I guess I don't understand the meaning of mandatory.

Personally, I'm not buying it.

[senseandsensibility]

9. Thanks for the link.

I've been at work all day, and this (from a recorded program) was the first I'd heard of it.

[randome]

5. Please, President Obama, please bring this up at the first debate.

[ailsagirl]

8. I wondered why the poor fellows seemed so unenthusiastic

Geez-- TR are really desperate-- astonishingly so