Big Coal backing Rand Paul, GOP

[Omaha Steve]

http://peoplesworld.org/big-coal-backing-rand-paul-gop/

by: Teresa Albano August 6 2010



In Kentucky, coal is king. And now, it seems, coal operators are trying to crown their princes in this year's mid-term elections.

The Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader recently broke a story about coal companies pooling their money to defeat "anti-coal" candidates.

In a letter obtained by the Herald-Leader, Roger Nicholson, senior vice president and general counsel at International Coal Group, urged companies to meet about forming a group aimed at defeating Democrats they perceive as "anti-coal."

Mentioned in the letter were three races "of interest": Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway, a Democrat, vying with Republican Rand Paul for Kentucky's open Senate seat; Rep. Ben Chandler, a Democrat, challenged by Republican Garland "Andy" Barr in Kentucky's 6th Congressional District; and Democratic Rep. Nick Rahall, who is being challenged by Republican Elliott "Spike" Maynard in West Virginia's 3rd Congressional District.

Maynard is famous for his French Riviera vacation photo with Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy. Maynard, who was a state Supreme Court justice at the time of the photo, wound up casting the West Virginia court's deciding vote to overturn a $50 million jury verdict against Massey.

It was at a non-union Massey mine where 29 miners died in an April 5 explosion.

ICG owns West Virginia's non-union Sago Mine, where 12 miners perished in a 2006 disaster.

FULL story at link.

[underpants]

1. Boy there's a shock

:wow:

:sarcasm:

[angels81]

2. Rand Paul

What I can't understand is how any miner who values his safety and life, would vote for Rand Paul. Here is a man who thinks that mine owners should regulate themselves when it comes to mine safety, and there is no place for the federal government when it comes to mine safety.

After what we have seen happen in the Massey mines, what idiot could vote for Paul? If Paul gets his way, there will be a lot more widows and kids without fathers.

[pscot]

3. Any miner who'd vote for Paul

must really love his chains.

[howaboutme]

4. Good for big business

is bad for America, and that goes for those backed by Wall Street too.

Those that are backed by big business are synonymous with being bad for Americans and America. The reason is because big business isn't about supporting America, it is about making a multi-national profit. The days of corporate loyalty and corporate citizenship went out the window with the "free" movement of capital and labor. If big business pays little in taxes, hires few Americans, outsources at every opportunity, and controls and bribes our government to their benefit, one could make a case we'd be better off without them.