Posted on 10/31/2012 8:41:44 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Consol Energy told 145 workers in southern West Virginia on Tuesday that it will start laying them off in late December because of a dispute over permits for surface mining related to the King Coal Highway project.
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Feel that Obama love.
Hope they didn’t cast early votes for obama!
Don’t they know Obama is saving New Jersey now? /s
If those coal miners voted for LIBs, nobama and other assorted DIMocRAT asshat moonbats, they deserve to be laid off.
There is VERY LITTLE support for Obama in West Virginia, especially in the southern coalfields. Just check out these facts:
1. Cecil Roberts, UMWA (United Mine Workers Association) president, has REFUSED to endorse Obama. Roberts and the mine labor unions ALWAYS endore Democrats. He even endorsed Gore in 2000.
2. In Mingo County (where the highway is running) Obama LOST in the 2012 Dem primary to Texas prisoner Keith Judd by a 61% to 39% margin. Judd won 10 out of the 55 West Virginia counties and won 41% of the statewide count, some 72,000 votes, while sitting in his prison cell. Remember this guy?
3. There are no Obama signs anywhere in southern WV. The local Democratic offices won’t even post Obama signs on their store windows.
4. Senator Joe Manchin (D) and Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin (D) have refused to endorse Obama. If they did that’s political suicide.
5. Obama lost the 2008 Dem primary to Hillary Clinton 88% to 8% in Mingo County. Yes, Obama LOST by 80 points!!!!!
Conclusion, there is ABSOLUTELY NO SUPPORT for Obama in this area of Southern West Virginia. The reason: Coal. Coal. Coal. The War On Coal is real, very real. When members of your own family have been layed off due to the EPA’s permit holdups action is going to be taken. That action is voting out Obama, even if you are a “loyal” Democrat.
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