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Hillary Sorry for Saying She Would Put Coal 'Out of Business'
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| 5/3/16
| Sarah Fisher
Posted on 05/03/2016 10:10:39 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
"It was a misstatement."
Back in March, former first lady and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said at a CNN town hall that she wanted to put coal miners and the coal industry "out of business."
At the event Clinton said she was the only candidate who "has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity using clean renewable energy as the key into coal country. We're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business," she said.
But now that Clinton is campaigning in West Virginia, her tune has changed.
"What I said was totally out of context from what I meant," Clinton said. "It was a misstatement, because what I was saying is that the way things are going now, we will continue to lose jobs."
Clinton backtracked her statement to Bo Copley, a 39-year-old foreman and maintenance planner who lost his job at Coal Mac, Inc., a subsidiary of Arch Coal, and who shared his opinion with her:
"I just want to know how you can say you're going to put a lot of coal miners out of jobs, and then come in here and tell us how you're going to be our friend."
"I do feel a little bit sad and sorry that I gave folks the reason, or the excuse, to be so upset with me, because that is not what I intended at all," Clinton responded.
"I'm here because I want you to know whether people vote for me or not, whether they yell at me or not, is not going to affect what I'm gonna try to do to help," she said, "because I feel like that's a moral obligation."
Copley spoke to reporters after the event and said he was not persuaded by Clinton's change.
"I would have liked to have heard more about what her plan is going forward for us," he said. "I'm not into political games...I want to hear the plans you have in store for us if you do get elected."
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; coal; coalindustry; herthighness; wv
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To: Impala64ssa
West Virginia Primary a week from today. Bad move, Hillary, very bad.
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posted on
05/03/2016 10:32:50 AM PDT
by
BigEdLB
(Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
To: bigbob
Er...the coal that makes the electricity for the electirc car...oh wait....
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posted on
05/03/2016 10:34:30 AM PDT
by
Uversabound
(Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
To: Impala64ssa
Uh-huh, sure.
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posted on
05/03/2016 10:37:39 AM PDT
by
JPG
(Go Trump!)
To: lacrew
Notice the audience is over 90% WHITE, and the few Black people there were sitting in the BACK rows? Was Her Thighness unconsciously(?) pandering to White supremacists as well?
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posted on
05/03/2016 10:38:08 AM PDT
by
Impala64ssa
(You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
She's lying. She and all her supporters -- and Bernie's -- want to destroy coal.
- [for "context":] Hillary promises to 'put a lot of coal miners and companies out of business' [2016]
- [for "context":] Hillary Boasts to Audience: "We're Going to Put a Lot of Coal Miners and Coal Companies Out of Work" [2016]
- Clinton's Energy Stance Spells Doom in Swing States [2016]
- Facing backlash, Clinton says coal still has a future [2016]
- Clinton Apologizes for Saying She'd Put Coal 'Out of Business' [2016]
- Clinton's crass coal crumble [2016]
- West Virginia Mayor: The Clintons Are 'Simply Not Welcome In Our Town' [2016]
- West Virginia Mayor: The Clintons Are 'Simply Not Welcome In Our Town' [2016]
- New ad rips Cruz and Trump as "dangerous" on climate change [2016]
- Climate activist Steyer launching voter drive on college campuses [2016]
- Dig a Hole for US Coal [2016]
- The Political Death of American Coal [2016]
- Peabody, largest US coal miner, seeks bankruptcy protection [2016]
- Trump to Pittsburgh: 'We Are Going to Bring Back Your Coal Industry, Your Steel Industry' [2016]
- Bowie deal falls apart in implosion ( War on Coal : Colorado ) [2016]
- End Of An Era: Peabody Declares Bankruptcy [2016]
- Cheap Natural Gas To Spark Another Wave Of Coal Plant Retirements [2016]
- Rand Paul will back Trump if he is nominee [2016]
- Coal CEO to hold fundraiser for Cruz [2016]
- The 'War on Coal' will be expensive [2016]
- The largest U.S. coal company may go out of business (Peabody Energy) [2016]
- MIT Report: Carbon Tax Necessary to Break Fossil Fuel Dependence [2016]
- Bowie shuts down coal mine ( Jobs & Energy : Colorado ) [2016]
- Coal production down at Twentymile Mine ( Jobs & Energy: Colorado ) [2016]
- Energy Policy Center Report: Electricity rates skyrocket across all Colorado sectors [2016]
- Sparks fly in debate over North Fork coal mining ( Jobs & Energy: Colorado ) [2016]
- More layoffs hit Bowie coal mine ( Colorado, Utah, and ) [2015]
- Campaign 2016: nobody cares about climate change(DUH!) [2016]
- Oregon lawmakers approve pioneering pro-climate coal bill [2016]
- State officials say Oregon energy bill would boost rates, wouldn't cut emissions [2016]
- GOP on Obama's Coal Move: Attacks Middle-Class Jobs and Punishes the Poor(Is this even legal?) [2016]
- In Climate Move, Obama to Halt New Coal Mining Leases on Public Lands [2016]
- The Carnage in Coal Country [2016]
- Why West Virginia's School Children Need Coal: The Jacki Daily Show! [2016]
- Arch Coal files for bankruptcy protection [2016]
- Climate change shock: Burning fossil fuels 'COOLS planet', says NASA [2015]
- Coal industry could leave U.S. taxpayers with major bill [2015]
- Railroads Hit By Falling Oil And Coal Production [2015]
- California's Hidden Coal Use [2015]
- Fracking topples old King Coal [2015]
- Gas power passes coal for the second time ever [2015]
- As natural gas replaces coal, U.S. utilities invest big in the future [2015]
- Earliest site of coal fuel found in Xinjiang [2015]
- Conservative coal towns are being destroyed across America [2015]
- Will EPA's Clean Power Plan doom Colorado's coal industries? [2015]
- Crushing the Poor & Middle Class with the EPA [2015]
- Report: Obama's Climate Plan Will Shrink Coal Industry By 48 Percent Regulations to cost [2015]
- Another coal giant files for bankruptcy [2015]
- Obama poised to unveil major climate change plan [Poised to stamp out coal once and for all] [2015]
- Obama climate change plan to eliminate jobs, raise electric bills, analysts say [2015]
- Furious Coal CEO Lets It All Out: "Obama Is Nation's Great Destroyer" [2015]
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posted on
05/03/2016 10:39:14 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: Impala64ssa
To: Impala64ssa
Why does she always dress in “Pander-Suits”?
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posted on
05/03/2016 10:41:40 AM PDT
by
gigster
(Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
To: Impala64ssa
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posted on
05/03/2016 10:42:41 AM PDT
by
Night Hides Not
(Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote went to Cruz.)
To: Impala64ssa
I’ll bet gassy Hillary releases a lot of greenhouse gases. ;-)
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posted on
05/03/2016 10:44:02 AM PDT
by
r_barton
(GO TRUMP!!!)
To: Impala64ssa
The Blacks in the back row were “Off the Reservation”...
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posted on
05/03/2016 10:46:08 AM PDT
by
gigster
(Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
To: Impala64ssa
We’re sorry we said we’d put you in prison. But we would sure like to, Hil.
To: Impala64ssa
Tell your wife her sister is better looking than she is. Tell her you always fantasized about her.
Apologize sincerely. Explain that you misspoke. The crazed old grandma at her stage in life still doesn’t know there are things you say that cant be taken back?
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posted on
05/03/2016 10:48:15 AM PDT
by
DesertRhino
("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,)
To: Impala64ssa
She got nailed by these miners and we all know it is true.
She and Obama want to put the coal people out of business, the thing is we need coal as we can then build Thorium Reactors to replace Nuclear. The Chinese are already doing this and we need to get into this also.
By the way back during Bill Clinton’s term he made a park out of place, I think, in Wyoming where there was 100’s of years of low sulfur coal. We then had to buy this from Indonesia where those mines were owned by Clinton supporters the Riady Family.
To: Impala64ssa
“I am going to put a lot of coal companies and coal miners out of business” she was caught saying on video in a speech.
She is campaigning in coal country today. When the video was played for her and she was asked about it, her halting response was to the effect that she took her own words out of context when she said it and did not mean it First time I ever heard that one as an excuse. I have heard of others taking a person’s words out of context but never the person accusing themselves of taking their own words out of context.And independents or anyone breathing carbon dioxide other than partisan Democrats would trust her why?
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posted on
05/03/2016 10:52:27 AM PDT
by
chuckee
To: r_barton
“Ill bet gassy Hillary releases a lot of greenhouse gases. ;-)”
No. She holds it all in. That’s why she looks that way.
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posted on
05/03/2016 11:00:15 AM PDT
by
MeganC
(The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
To: The_Media_never_lie
Enough of this Sea Hag’s pandering... Cruz and Kasich need to go home and let Mr Trump destroy her.
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posted on
05/03/2016 11:13:43 AM PDT
by
MGunny
To: headstamp 2
And this yokel will still vote for her.
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posted on
05/03/2016 11:17:00 AM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(United we stand, divided we fall. I think the establishment has divided us enough.)
To: Impala64ssa
She didn’t misspoke as her latest pivot indicates she wants to continue obummer’s agenda and that includes wiping out coal. Criminal LIAR illary!
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posted on
05/03/2016 11:18:43 AM PDT
by
Harpotoo
To: Impala64ssa
She’s not sorry she did it, just sorry she said it.
To: I want the USA back
Plus they will scare them into believing that if they vote republican they will lose their welfare that the democrats have graciously given them after taking their jobs.
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