Romney's ads show miners not paid during campaign stop

[Omaha Steve]

Source: The Columbus Dispatch

By Joe Vardon

Mitt Romney’s campaign is airing two ads in eastern Ohio that include footage of the coal miners who lost pay because he campaigned at their mine.

Romney, the Republican presidential nominee, went up with the two ads this morning – both of them hitting President Barack Obama on coal. The two ads titled "War on Coal" and "Way of Life" include shots of Romney on a stage with soot-covered coal miners.

The footage is from Romney’s Aug. 14 campaign stop at the Century Mine in Beallsville, Ohio, owned by a subsidiary of Murray Energy Corp. It was later learned that the miners on stage were ordered out of the mine because of Romney’s campaign stop and were not paid for the portion of their shift that was canceled by the event.

The Romney campaign confirmed the miners shown in the two ads were the miners from Romney’s campaign stop.


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The videos.

[bluesbassman]

1. And the hits keep on coming!

Romney and his campaign are just pathetic.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Don't bother me with details.

I meant what I said,I think. Willard,you are a Idiot and slimball of a human. Aren't a dozen mines closing in this region in the next two years? Time for a new Appalachian Bill to finally fix the ills of this region.

[Omaha Steve]

3. Coal miners lost pay when Mitt Romney visited their mine to promote coal jobs 8-28-12

The original story.

http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2012/08/coal_miners_lost_pay_when_mitt.html

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- When GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney visited an Ohio coal mine this month to promote jobs in the coal industry, workers who appeared with him at the rally lost pay because their mine was shut down.


Associated PressHundreds of coal miners and their families wait in line to attend a rally Aug. 14 at the Century Mine near Beallsville, Ohio.


The Pepper Pike company that owns the Century Mine told workers that attending the Aug. 14 Romney event would be both mandatory and unpaid, a top company official said Monday morning in a West Virginia radio interview: http://www.newsradio1170.com/player/?station=WWVA-AM&program_name=podcast&program_id=BLOOMDADDY.xml&mid=22385072

A group of employees who feared they'd be fired if they didn't attend the campaign rally in Beallsville, Ohio, complained about it to WWVA radio station talk show host David Blomquist. Blomquist discussed their beefs on the air Monday with Murray Energy Chief Financial Officer Rob Moore.

Moore told Blomquist that managers "communicated to our workforce that the attendance at the Romney event was mandatory, but no one was forced to attend." He said the company did not penalize no-shows.

FULL story at link.

[reflection]

4. If Romney had a decent,

or merely a politically savvy bone in his body, he would offer to pay those workers for the time they lost "supporting" him. The story would play well across the state, and he would come across as understanding and dare I say, human.

But at the end of the day, he is simply a greedy bastard clothed in an expensive suit, so he won't do it.

[barbtries]

5. did i read somewhere that the campaign was running out of money?

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they should pay these miners for their appearance in a commercial. plus residuals. it should not be legal and is certainly not right that these people were FORCED to do this and to pay for it too!

[Omaha Steve]

6. Romney is still well funded

I'm wondering if we will see a fall in direct donations to his campaign after these last 10 days.