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Hillary Sorry for Saying She Would Put Coal 'Out of Business'
Truth Revolt ^ | 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: Blue Jays

She lost the South when she asked” I sho would like a tall glass of that iced grits.”!


41 posted on 05/03/2016 11:30:47 AM PDT by GOYAKLA ( Pick-up the pace, I'm eighty!)
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To: headstamp 2

Her moral obligation is to put you on welfare and limit our energy choices.


42 posted on 05/03/2016 11:33:16 AM PDT by taterjay
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To: Rusty0604

Hillary’s new stance: “Make Coal Great Again”. HaHaHa.

Sure, Hillary. With the trust you’ve built up over the decades, the only thing people can depend on you to do is to act in your own (evil) self-interest.


43 posted on 05/03/2016 11:33:32 AM PDT by AZLiberty (A is no longer A, but a pull-down menu.)
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To: Impala64ssa
The Lying Bitch, aka Madam Benghazi, no doubt had a good cackle with her hangers-on as she recounted how a peasant dared to question her, and she "outsmarted" him.

She deserves the "Marie Antoinette" treatment.

44 posted on 05/03/2016 11:36:10 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (UNAWARE -Millenials voting for the first time were only 2 when the Clinton Crime Family left office.)
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To: Impala64ssa
Hillary Sorry for Saying She Would Put Coal 'Out of Business'

Yeah, right.

45 posted on 05/03/2016 12:41:59 PM PDT by GOPJ (Imagine the shrieking MSM outrage if Trump supporters had tried to flip a car... David French)
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To: Impala64ssa

She’s only sorry because political expediency caught up with her.


46 posted on 05/03/2016 12:43:03 PM PDT by kdmhcdcfld (Use of this tagline without the express written consent of Free Republic is prohibited.)
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The libs who will vote for and elect hellary are brain dead zombies-makes no difference what she says to various audiences for a few more votes. Because of open borders, felon voters, illegal voters, entitlement voters, gaystapo voters, dead voters, shakedown/payola voters and multiple times voters, a non demoncrap candidate doesn’t have a chance.


47 posted on 05/03/2016 12:52:12 PM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: Impala64ssa

Sorry she got called on it.


48 posted on 05/03/2016 12:54:57 PM PDT by wordsofearnest (Proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs it. C.S. Lewis)
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To: Impala64ssa

She misspoke when she said she was dodging sniper fire, too..


49 posted on 05/03/2016 1:05:07 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Certified Islamophobe)
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To: The_Media_never_lie
"Ah Ain't no ways tar'd of carryin' this here jar o' shine!"

Sorry, that there is pandering to blacks and hillbillies in the same sentence.

50 posted on 05/03/2016 1:14:19 PM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Pete, the area that Bill Clinton made forever off limits to coal extraction was/is in Utah, I believe, and was supposedly one of the last deposits of that high grade, low polluting coal left in America so close to the surface.

I think it was near or adjacent to the Escalante Staircase, if not THE Escalante Staircase.


51 posted on 05/03/2016 1:19:28 PM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: Impala64ssa

52 posted on 05/03/2016 1:34:18 PM PDT by doug from upland
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To: Impala64ssa

Yeah, misspoke and all that before pandering then an oopsie?


53 posted on 05/03/2016 4:09:31 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Impala64ssa

What she meant was “Vote for me or I send all of the muzzie “refugees” here”.


54 posted on 05/03/2016 9:34:22 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: T-Bone Texan
Yes. I remember that, too.

Bill took what was considered one Trillion dollars worth of "white coal" off the market.

Yes the environmentalist that he is made sure to deprive the US of a much cleaner source of coal.

All for campaign donations.

How come NOBODY mentions that?

I'm so goddamn old that I can remember 20 years ago.

Apparently no one in the MSM is interested.

55 posted on 05/04/2016 6:40:29 PM PDT by boop ("A Republic, if you can keep it."-Franklin, 1787. "We couldn't keep it"-America, 2016)
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