Coal-mine drama and $375,000 Bush fundraiser: Chickens home to roost

[scoopmeister]

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002683.html

The Aracoma mine, where two miners are missing after a fire, had seen a recent increase in accidents and safety citations. It is owned by Massey Energy Co., whose director “Buck” Harless raised $375,000 for Bush in 2000 and which, according to a federal whistleblower, benefited almost immediately from a whitewash of the worst environmental disaster in the history of the Eastern U.S.

[AX10]

1. Don't you just "love" these rural huckster names: "Buck Harless"...

He sounds so trustworthy.<sarcasm off> :puke:

[montanacowboy]

2. I wonder if the miners who love Booooosh so much

will still continue to support him? hell yes they will

[Bridget Burke]

3. How do you know the miners love Bush?

More info would be useful.

[scoopmeister]

4. It's true

Gore would have been elected in 2000 were it not for West Virginia, especially the coal regions. And of course Bush won the state again in 2004.

[Bridget Burke]

5. Everyone in West Virginia is a miner?

Gosh, I didn't know.

[MyNameGoesHere]

6. Holy crap!!

I better get outta this here office and git under da mountin. when you haven't a clue why not STFU?