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Mountain Justice Summer Follows Friends of Coal Rally at Capitol
The MJS event started less than an hour after the Astroturf group “Friends of Coal” (aka FOC - FIENDS of Coal) held a rally on the Statehouse steps.Miners were given the day off and bussed in to hear about the joys of coal, extolled upon by the likes of Gov. Manchin and Rep. Shelly Moore Capito (aka Shelly MORE DeCAPITATE) as they stood beneath a giant American flag. The Charleston Gazette article on the FOCers rally reported:
“Secretary of State Betty Ireland also spoke at the FOC rally, as did former Marshall football coach Bob Pruett.
“Pruett, a Raleigh County native and paid FOC spokesman, said coal mining played a big role in his life. He said his father died of black lung; his father-in-law died in a slate fall...
“I truly do understand what coal has done for us in the past,” Pruett said.”
Those FOCers sure know how to buy some swift spokespeople! (Remember ex-WVU coach Don Nehlen saying that West Virginia needs to mine coal more like China does? About 6,000 die in China’s mines every year.)
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