Retired miner: Capito is no friend of coal
Posted: Saturday, August 30, 2014 3:00 am
My opinion, a coal miner would have to be ignorant to vote for Shelley Moore Capito. She has had several chances to speak for coal use and coal-related jobs but refused.
She may speak against the proposed EPA regulations in her political ads, but when she was invited to a meeting with President Obama to speak for coal use and against the regulations, she showed her true colors and said “No,” knowing Obama is the one person that could put a stop to any regulation the EPA has in store for coal.
When she had the chance to speak out for a cure to a problem of coal, she not only refused, but joined other Republicans and blocked others from speaking. I am speaking about the problem of no steel being made. Two large coal companies made the statement in the Beckley paper that no steel being made is one reason they will be laying off miners.
That problem could have been cured, but the Republican-controlled House, Shelley Moore Capito being one of them, said “No,” that cure was the Democrat bill for fixing our roads, the repairing or replacing the thousands of bridges labeled unsafe and the miles of our worn out rail system. This would require million tons of steel to be made and many more million tons of coal and in the process create many jobs.
But Capito and the Republican-controlled House would not allow the bill be debated or voted on.
All of what I have said has a record that can and should be checked. It will open eyes to the truth that Rep. Shelley Moore Capito is no friend of coal miners.
Not long ago, Rep. Capito made a statement of basing her votes on the needs of the people of West Virginia. We would have to be a state full of sick people to think she has kept that promise when it comes to coal and coal related jobs.
I am one retired coal miner who will be voting Natalie Tennant, and I feel any who take a honest look at Rep. Capito’s record will be convinced to do the same.
Credit: Register Herald
