Murray attacking the Utah gov.; claims gov.'s comments endangers jobs

[CatWoman]

At odds: Murray says Huntsman endangers jobs

HUNTINGTON — Mine owner Bob Murray says Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.'s recent comments about rescue efforts for six trapped miners have put hundreds of mining jobs in Utah's coal country in peril.

"If you persist in your statements and course of action, you, Governor, are going to jeopardize 700 jobs in Carbon and Emery Counties," Murray said in a letter obtained Friday by the Deseret Morning News.

"I cannot maintain them alone, and I definitely cannot do it if I am going to be your whipping-boy."

The letter emerges as drilling efforts continue today in what may be a final attempt to learn the fates of the miners trapped inside a collapsed part of the Crandall Canyon Mine. The drill has been moving through 1,700 feet of mountain to an area where the miners were last believed to have been working. The previous five holes drilled through the mountain have failed to make contact with the miners and have not shown any signs of life.

Murray has said that if this latest hole reveals no sign of life, he will abandon the rescue effort.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695204182,00.html

[rurallib]

1. Rovian textbook: blame everyone else for your fuck-ups.

You, as a repuke, are never responsible for anything.

[youngdem]

2. I say shove this prick down one of those holes and go ahead and seal that mountain up

Threatening the state with losing jobs for trying to better protect workers. Nice touch.

Stick him down the hole and plug it.

[IDemo]

6. If you did that, eventually he'd become a fossil fuel

Although that could cause some vehicle far in the future to have an exhaust smell like a horse's ass.

[Bitwit1234]

3. He's got bush down pat

like you said...he blames everybody else for every thing smash up he has performed.

[valerief]

4. Protect the job, kill the worker. Do it the BushCo way. nt

[terisan]

5. Murray claiming to be in business to provide jobs!!!! A socialist Capitalist or something?