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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 Murrays 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 candidates 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
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)I hope Romney picks Bob Murray to be his VP nominee. These guys are made for each other.
calimary
(81,127 posts)Well, by thy friends art thou known, mitty-boy.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)malaise
(268,724 posts)They are shameless
enough
(13,255 posts)hatrack
(59,578 posts)bluedigger
(17,086 posts)Oh wait, no it's not...