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RandySF

(58,512 posts)
Wed May 9, 2012, 02:12 AM May 2012

Rmoney introduced at fundraiser by coal baron who killed workers

Mitt Romney is all for coal mining, and he proved that recently with a $2,500-per-person campaign stop in West Virginia, where he was introduced by the coal magnate Bob Murray.

Maybe Romney was too busy running for president in 2007 to notice that Murray’s Crandall Canyon coal mine collapsed twice in 2007, killing six miners and three would-be rescuers. Or that Murray claimed an earthquake caused the first failure even when seismologists determined it did not.

Or that the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration issued a report a year later finding that Genwal Resources, a Murray Energy Corp. subsidiary, was operating under three findings of high "negligence" in three of its Crandall mining plan elements and with "reckless disregard" in three others.

Perhaps it also did not come to the candidate’s attention that earlier this year an outraged federal judge fined Genwal just $500,000 for the disaster — all that the law would allow.



http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/54064936-90/murray-romney-mcentee-coal.html.csp#disqus_thread

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Rmoney introduced at fundraiser by coal baron who killed workers (Original Post) RandySF May 2012 OP
Birds of a feather... limpyhobbler May 2012 #1
OMG - that bastard! calimary May 2012 #2
Keep pushing this story. Thanks. Scuba May 2012 #3
Holy Shite malaise May 2012 #4
k&r (nt) enough May 2012 #5
As somebody posted yesterday, who's running Romney's campaign - Charlie Sheen? hatrack May 2012 #6
That's hard to believe. bluedigger May 2012 #7
K & R Scurrilous May 2012 #8

limpyhobbler

(8,244 posts)
1. Birds of a feather...
Wed May 9, 2012, 02:31 AM
May 2012

I hope Romney picks Bob Murray to be his VP nominee. These guys are made for each other.

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