Posted on 06/23/2012 4:28:10 PM PDT by Qbert
In a year when the Obama administration’s “war on coal” could signify a Republican victory of landslide proportions in West Virginia, three of the state’s top Democrats recently announced they would not attend their party’s national convention that will renominate the president on Labor Day weekend.
Rep. Nick Joe Rahall, Sen. Joe Manchin, and Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin—all of whom who faced stiff re-election challenges in their last races and now face strong Republican opponents this fall—have said they want to spend Labor Day weekend campaigning in or working for West Virginia rather than attend their party’s convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.
This is problematic for that state’s Democratic Party, whose state convention recently enacted a resolution calling on all Democrats running for office to support all elected Democrats—particularly the president. Rahall has endorsed the president for re-election, but Tomblin and Manchin, who made a strong speech hailing Obama at the 2008 Democratic convention, have not. All three are super delegates to the convention this year.
Lots of uninformed idiots on this thread, eager to bash West Virginia, location of the hard working coal industry that keeps your damn lights on.
WV voted Republican in 2008, McCain over Obama.
How did YOUR state vote? HMMM?
I do believe that voter fraud was rife in Ohio.
And in my defense in my own mind I was defending WV.
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
If we have unearned luck
Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,
We will make amends ere long;
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends.
Wait until West Virginians, Pennsylvanians, and possibly Ohioans see the latest EPA regulations against coal plants. Word is that 100 older coal-fired energy plants will have to shut down this year (how many jobs down the crapper?), and that many other plants many follow suit rather than spend a tremendous amount of money to retrofit themselves with new scrubbing technology (some retrofitting is needed but whether all of it is, is the question, and the time given to perform it is also a major problem).
PS: The EPA is going to regulate “greenhouse gases” that come from your car through the burning of gasoline. One of four major car-targetted EPA control programs now in the works.
There are a lot of United Mine Workers of America union members who may suddenly become ex-members due to AFL-CIO president Trumka’s support of Obama. Trumka’s an old marxist thug who once led the UMWA. He turned the AFL-CIO, once a bastion of anti-communist, pro-freedom patriots into a marxist cesspool of Communist Party -associated high level officials.
George Meany and Jay Lovestone must have shit in their graves over this betrayal of American labor.
In 2012, this may change for the best, and Trumka will be thrown out by his own union.
West Virginia will go for Romney, and Manchin knows it.
“A change is gonna come!”
Not a chance in hell.
Trumka is head of the AFL-CIO now which mostly represents government employees. Even though he was once head of the Mine Workers, he does not give a shit about them now.
They don't pay enough dues to catch his attention.
This is what people need to understand about unions today... they don't make money from the private sector anymore. It's mostly government employees who pay the dues.
Trumka wants more dues paying members and if killing the mine workers is what it takes, he'll gladly do it.
Bottom line: He does not give a damn about the 'working man'. He just wants the cash.
If enough UMW members vote Republican in W. Va and perhaps elsewhere, such as in Penn., it could throw the election to Romney re electoral votes.
If Obama is out of the White House, it is quite possible that Trumka will get the blame by other labor leftists and be ousted in an internal coup.
One can always hope.
'Though Tomblin was somewhat close at 2.6%, it will be a much larger gap this Nov. The ONLY WV encumbant I see with any problem is McKinley (R, WV 1) who won by only .8% in 2010.
Looks more like the problems lie in the corrupt WV GOP.
Clue: WV hasn't voted for a RAT Presidential candidate since 1996!! Now, what does that tell you about the WV GOP?
One can always hope.
Never a good strategy.
All we got in 2010 was the 1 extra US House seat. I’m not super optimistic.
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