Posted on 08/10/2014 10:56:10 PM PDT by george76
For the pro-coal senator, the "war on coal" begins at home.
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while McConnell presents himself as a defender of Kentucky coal mining, a member of his own family who serves as a key campaign surrogate is taking a role in an organization that funds one of the most aggressive anti-coal campaigns in the country.
McConnell’s wife, former Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, sits on the board of directors of Bloomberg Philanthropies, which has plunged $50 million into the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal initiative, an advocacy effort with the expressed goal of killing the coal industry.
In 2011, Bloomberg Philanthropies teamed up with the Sierra Club to target coal plants for closure in an effort to "end our nation’s reliance on dirty coal, plant-by-plant, community-by-community, and state-by-state," according to Bloomberg Philanthropies’ website.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies isn’t the only group Chao represents that has taken a stand against the coal industry. She also sits on the board of directors at Wells Fargo, which in 2013 announced that it would divest from surface mining of coal in Appalachia due to environmental concerns. In the bank’s Environmental and Social Risk Management report, the company announced that it would no longer lend to coal companies that participate in “Mountain Top Removal” (MTR), in which miners extract coal from mountain summits.
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Ditch Mitch, by any means necessary.
You have a choice....elect a Democrat-pretending-to-be-Republican or an authentic-Democrat. That’s about it. Even throwing a 3rd party person into the mix...just guarantees twenty percent of the state vote goes into a black box and is without value. Might as well vote Democrat and do the right thing.
This story = McConnell = “toast”
My electricity rates just “necessarily skyrocketed” 50% last month. Just a coincidence, I’m sure.
So Grimes claim that she is the pro-coal Senate candidate is kind of true?
Miotch is Soetoro’s biotch.
She’s a NK lookalike. Any organization that spends 50mil to kill jobs deserves to be burned to the ground and shut down.
And elect whom?
The chance to ditch Mitch has passed. Any who advocate it serve the Regime!
This will kill his election. It shows him for the fraud that he is.
And how do these elites end up marrying each other? Where’s is first wife? Any kids?
How a Club of Billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama’s EPA
July 30, 2014
I prefer my enemies in front of me, not traitors behind me. Cochran and Harry Reids’ B**** er. Mitch must go. Vote for all who conservatives and do not vote for GOPe
Of course this information was held back until after the primary.
Arrogance; stupidity; or both?
Straw man argument trotted out again by the GOPE. Nice try, won’t work. Mitch may win, he may not he is on his own. He made it clear he didn’t want conservative votes so why are you shilling for them??? Seriously you people in the GOPE wanted no part of conservatives so why are you bitching, moaning and pleading for their votes now???
As for Mitch’s wife working for a kook anti-coal organization, this is not a shock at all, follow the $$$. Mitch and his honey are about the $$$ and power, they don’t care where it comes from as long as they are the recipients of it and if you think he gives a crap about Kentucky or the country you are deluding yourself.
Mitch is bought. What else is he getting paid off for?
We all know that is the political grim reaper, especially if Tea Party Conservatives are feeling rather vindictive the day they go into the booth...
Ditch Mitch, by any means necessary.
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Even if it means voting for the Dem candidate, Alison Lundergan Grimes. Does anybody know if the Grimes camp is all over this? If not; they’re stupid.
Ditch Mitch, by any means necessary.
And elect whom? The chance to ditch Mitch has passed. Any who advocate it serve the Regime!
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WHOMever we freakin’ want to. If you would not make statements like the one you made above, people would just think your a RINO-loving, ass kisser. Now they know that AND they know just how ignorant you really are.
This will kill his election. It shows him for the fraud that he is.
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BULLSHIT!!! I wish with everything within me that you were right. I loathe that scumbag, p.o.s., Mitch McConnell. But, most voters are uninformed and/or stupid. It’s all about money and name recognition. Whomever has the most of those, wins. It’s a sad day in America.
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