Romney's forced backdrop of miners...........

[ABikerSailor]

It seems that Mittens only believes in the workers if they serve his purposes at the time.......

WASHINGTON -- On Wednesday, the Mitt Romney campaign released an ad spotlighting President Obama’s putative "War On Coal," despite a controversy in Ohio about the coal miners’ rally featured in the spot. In the ad, Romney appears on a stage before rows of hard-hatted miners, their faces smudged with coal dust, as he says, “We have 250 years of coal. Why wouldn’t we use it?”

The rally was held last month in Beallsville, Ohio, thick with miners from the Century coal mine, owned by Murray Energy, a major donor to Republican causes. Within days of the rally, Murray employees contacted a nearby morning talk radio host, David Blomquist, to say they were forced to attend the Aug. 14 event at the mine.

The "War On Coal" ad is clearly aimed at shoring up Romney’s support among working-class white men and at making inroads into Obama’s persistent lead in the crucial battleground state of Ohio.

Asked about Romney’s use of video from a rally that miners were forced to attend and that cost many a day’s wages, Romney spokesman Ryan Williams chose instead to focus on Obama: “"It remains a widely accepted fact among Democrats and Republicans alike that President Obama has spent the past four years waging a war on coal that has devastated Ohio workers and coal communities. This is one reason why the nation's largest coal mining union, the United Mine Workers of America, has refused to endorse his reelection.”

The union has not endorsed Romney either. Obama supporters, like the AFL-CIO, pounced on Romney’s use of the Beallsville footage. “The Romney Campaign now knows full well that those miners, wage earners as they are, missed a day’s pay when they were required to attend the event,” Ohio AFL-CIO spokesman Michael Gillis said. “Instead of those workers providing for their families and putting food on the table that day, they were used as political props by a candidate that understands nothing about the plight of the average American.”

The mine is owned by Robert Murray, an enthusiastic Romney supporter and major contributor to the Republican Party on his own and through Murray Energy, one of the largest private coal companies in the U.S. Murray and his wife have given Republican candidates a total of $471,185 since the 2008 election, including the maximum of $5,000 each to Romney this year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Additionally, employees of Murray Energy and its subsidiaries contributed almost $1.5 million to Republicans over the same period.

Murray Energy is among the biggest employers in the coal-rich Ohio valley, and worries run high there that the increased use of natural gas at the nation’s power plants and more stringent air pollution regulations are gradually throttling coal.

Coal jobs have risen in Ohio during most of Obama’s tenure, but mines all over the mid-Atlantic have been laying off people this year, said Phil Smith, spokesman for the United Mine Workers of America, which endorsed Obama in 2008.

Murray, in an interview in Tampa, Fla., with the Cleveland Plain Dealer, said “nobody was ordered to attend” the rally. “Nobody knows who attended and who didn’t. But I can tell you this: We had 3,000 people there, it was a great day, our people enjoyed it. Barack Obama is destroying their lives, their livelihoods. These people are scared, and they came out in droves to see Mitt Romney and that’s what it was all about.”

Romney ad features miners allegedly forced to attend rally - latimes.com

Nice that he cares about the miners when it's politically expedient. Does anyone else find anything wrong with this? I'm personally wondering about the docking of their pay AND forcing them to attend. If attendance was mandatory, why shouldn't they be paid for their time?

 

[Stephanie]

oh brother, I'm sure someone was holding a gun to their heads

 

[Lakhota]

Coal Workers Say Murray Energy ‘Coerces’ Them To Make GOP Donations: ‘If You Don’t Contribute, Your Job’s At Stake’

Coal Miner’s Donor: A Mitt Romney benefactor and his surprisingly generous employees.

 

[ABikerSailor]

Yeah..............and anyone else remember another thing about Murray Energy? They had a mine collapse in Utah and the cause of the collapse was because they didn't follow safety regs.

No wonder he supports Mittens. He wants to get all the regulations taken away, to hell with the safety of the miners (and, because of Mittens' visit, to hell with a days pay as well).

 

[ABikerSailor]

I'm wondering why more people aren't upset by this.

Especially since Mittens says he's now for the little people too.

 

[The Infidel]

I'm wondering why more people aren't upset by this.

Especially since Mittens says he's now for the little people too.

So Obama is for coal workers?

Try again bucko

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aTf5gjvNvo]Obama on building coal plants in the United States - YouTube[/ame]

 

[uscitizen]

Romney had to bus in hispanics for his Univision appearance.

 

[The Infidel]

Yeah..............and anyone else remember another thing about Murray Energy? They had a mine collapse in Utah and the cause of the collapse was because they didn't follow safety regs.

No wonder he supports Mittens. He wants to get all the regulations taken away, to hell with the safety of the miners (and, because of Mittens' visit, to hell with a days pay as well).

You mind linking to the story or better yet to Romney saying he wants to eliminate all regulations?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

I'm wondering why more people aren't upset by this.

Especially since Mittens says he's now for the little people too.

So Obama is for coal workers?

Try again bucko

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aTf5gjvNvo]Obama on building coal plants in the United States - YouTube[/ame]

Homer Simpson said it best, "D'oh!"

 

[The Infidel]

Romney had to bus in hispanics for his Univision appearance.

Did he also bus in real journaslists to grill Obama?

Give me a break man....

 

[ABikerSailor]

Hey, at least Obama doesn't use workers for political props.

And why was it that attendance was MANDATORY even though they were docked pay for that day?

 

[ABikerSailor]

Romney had to bus in hispanics for his Univision appearance.

Did he also bus in real journaslists to grill Obama?

Give me a break man....

Real journalists talk to the President on a regular basis, and he answers their questions.

Mittens just runs away, lies, or says a lot of words without answering the question.

 

[uscitizen]

Fact is that cleaner emission requirements for coal fired electric plants increased the demand for lower quality western coal. They could not burn it without scrubbers and such becuase of the sulfur content.

Coal demand is way down right now due to the cheaper price of nat gas and the cheaper to build nat gas fired generators. Cheaper to build even without the scrubber requirement.
Also they spin up quickly unlike coal fired plants to pick up for peak demand times.

unlike your masters tell you this is not only about clean air requirements but several other considerations as well. Such as coal fired plants must be located close/next to a railroad and gas fired ones just need a pipeline ran to them.
Much easier and cheaper than building a railroad.

 

[The Infidel]

Romney had to bus in hispanics for his Univision appearance.

Did he also bus in real journaslists to grill Obama?

Give me a break man....

Real journalists talk to the President on a regular basis, and he answers their questions.

Mittens just runs away, lies, or says a lot of words without answering the question.

Your a damn liar.... Obama walks out on reporters regularly.

Try again!

 

[JimH52]

It seems that Mittens only believes in the workers if they serve his purposes at the time.......

WASHINGTON -- On Wednesday, the Mitt Romney campaign released an ad spotlighting President Obama’s putative "War On Coal," despite a controversy in Ohio about the coal miners’ rally featured in the spot. In the ad, Romney appears on a stage before rows of hard-hatted miners, their faces smudged with coal dust, as he says, “We have 250 years of coal. Why wouldn’t we use it?”

The rally was held last month in Beallsville, Ohio, thick with miners from the Century coal mine, owned by Murray Energy, a major donor to Republican causes. Within days of the rally, Murray employees contacted a nearby morning talk radio host, David Blomquist, to say they were forced to attend the Aug. 14 event at the mine.

The "War On Coal" ad is clearly aimed at shoring up Romney’s support among working-class white men and at making inroads into Obama’s persistent lead in the crucial battleground state of Ohio.

Asked about Romney’s use of video from a rally that miners were forced to attend and that cost many a day’s wages, Romney spokesman Ryan Williams chose instead to focus on Obama: “"It remains a widely accepted fact among Democrats and Republicans alike that President Obama has spent the past four years waging a war on coal that has devastated Ohio workers and coal communities. This is one reason why the nation's largest coal mining union, the United Mine Workers of America, has refused to endorse his reelection.”

The union has not endorsed Romney either. Obama supporters, like the AFL-CIO, pounced on Romney’s use of the Beallsville footage. “The Romney Campaign now knows full well that those miners, wage earners as they are, missed a day’s pay when they were required to attend the event,” Ohio AFL-CIO spokesman Michael Gillis said. “Instead of those workers providing for their families and putting food on the table that day, they were used as political props by a candidate that understands nothing about the plight of the average American.”

The mine is owned by Robert Murray, an enthusiastic Romney supporter and major contributor to the Republican Party on his own and through Murray Energy, one of the largest private coal companies in the U.S. Murray and his wife have given Republican candidates a total of $471,185 since the 2008 election, including the maximum of $5,000 each to Romney this year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Additionally, employees of Murray Energy and its subsidiaries contributed almost $1.5 million to Republicans over the same period.

Murray Energy is among the biggest employers in the coal-rich Ohio valley, and worries run high there that the increased use of natural gas at the nation’s power plants and more stringent air pollution regulations are gradually throttling coal.

Coal jobs have risen in Ohio during most of Obama’s tenure, but mines all over the mid-Atlantic have been laying off people this year, said Phil Smith, spokesman for the United Mine Workers of America, which endorsed Obama in 2008.

Murray, in an interview in Tampa, Fla., with the Cleveland Plain Dealer, said “nobody was ordered to attend” the rally. “Nobody knows who attended and who didn’t. But I can tell you this: We had 3,000 people there, it was a great day, our people enjoyed it. Barack Obama is destroying their lives, their livelihoods. These people are scared, and they came out in droves to see Mitt Romney and that’s what it was all about.”

Romney ad features miners allegedly forced to attend rally - latimes.com

Nice that he cares about the miners when it's politically expedient. Does anyone else find anything wrong with this? I'm personally wondering about the docking of their pay AND forcing them to attend. If attendance was mandatory, why shouldn't they be paid for their time?

Did he poll them to see if there were any of the 47% there?

 

[Stephanie]

Hey, at least Obama doesn't use workers for political props.

And why was it that attendance was MANDATORY even though they were docked pay for that day?

OH REALLY, what about the guy who said it was Because of Romney his wife DIED?

and lets not forget THE GARBAGE MAN and then we have the girl with down syndrome
shall I GO ON?

 

[uscitizen]

Romney had to bus in hispanics for his Univision appearance.

Did he also bus in real journaslists to grill Obama?

Give me a break man....

Oh like Jeff Gannon? Bush's fav journalist who ran a gay escort service and a half assed web site?

Yeah we have not forgotten.

 

[ABikerSailor]

Did he also bus in real journaslists to grill Obama?

Give me a break man....

Real journalists talk to the President on a regular basis, and he answers their questions.

Mittens just runs away, lies, or says a lot of words without answering the question.

Your a damn liar.... Obama walks out on reporters regularly.

Try again!

Link?

 

[The Infidel]

Did he poll them to see if there were any of the 47% there?

You are a comedian man... do you get paid to do that, because you should.... thats some funnay shiat!

 

[Stephanie]

lol, Obama has had LESS Press conferences WITH REAL JOURANLIST than any President I can remember, yet they still grovel at his feet...