Mitchell Metzler a miner and Iraq war veteran, said he came to the protest after finishing his midnight shift at the mine. “I spent a year in Iraq serving my country, and now they want to take away my job,” he said.
Obama has lost Ohio.
Say it ain't so, working man Joe!
Refresh my memory: Who did the UMWA endorse last time around?
Oh, wait... it’s coming back to me now.
Ohio ping
Yep...and they will all vote for Obama in November because of the union! They will never get it!
I know a gentleman who works at one of the coal-fired plants down here in southeast Ohio, on the border with West Virginia. He tried his damnedest last time around to warn his co-workers about Obama, but they didn’t listen.
They’re listening now.
Interesting the One can’t be bothered to face the people he said he’d put out of business. The closest he’s gotten to us is Columbus, over two hours from our neck of the woods.