UMW plans stoppage over NRA filming

[Nambe]

Source: The Associated Press

Union leaders say a National Rifle Association film crew tried to coerce West Virginia miners into bad-mouthing presidential hopeful Barack Obama on camera, and that the union plans a brief work stoppage in protest.

The United Mine Workers will call for the stoppage at Consol's Blacksville No. 2 mine next week, union President Cecil Roberts said Monday at a news conference with representatives of Obama's West Virginia campaign in Charleston.

Roberts said the union, which has endorsed Democrat Obama for president, is unhappy that Consol allowed the camera crew to ask miners leading questions about the candidate such as: "What do you think about losing your Second Amendment rights?"

"This, I think, is an attempt to try to twist the facts here," he said. "We're just hoping people aren't misled." ...

Read more: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/sep/22/umw-plans-stoppage-over-nra-filming/

[fascisthunter]

1. NRA=Right Wing Cult for Guns

[Herman74]

2. Doesn't Surprise Me. n/t

[clear eye]

3. Those miners are heroes. And pretty well informed. n/t

[doc03]

4. I used to belong to the NRA and they sent out

polls every so often and the questions were always worded that way in order to get the answer they wanted. Then of course they always wanted money to fight the gun grabbers the evil Clintons, Ted Kennedy and Barney Frank. I would say I got mailings at least twice a month wanting money for some emergency to stop gun grabbers. I can't stand the SOBs especially Wayne LaPiere.

[Plucketeer]

5. NRA

Non-sensical
Rabid
Assholes

[FightingIrish]

6. I really need to be working but it's damn hard not watching

the implosion of the McCain campaign in real time.