 Stories About: barack obama AND coal AND elections AND Muckraker AND news AND politics AND presidential race 08
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Miner offense
Coal miners in West Virginia stay home in protest of anti-Obama NRA tactics |
Kate Sheppard |
07 Oct 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Coal production at the Blacksville No. 2 Mine in Monongalia County, W.Va., came to a halt for one day last week when all the miners stayed home in protest after a National Rifle Association camera crew tried to get them to bad-mouth Barack Obama on film. The United Mineworkers of America has endorsed the Democratic candidate for president, and union officials were miffed that the NRA was allowed on the property. Here's the story: Union officials say they took the day ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, coal, elections, energy, mining, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08, West Virginia (all these topics) |
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Be mine
McCain campaign releases contrived ads promoting coal |
Kate Sheppard |
29 Sep 2008 |
Gristmill |
| The McCain and Obama campaigns have been bickering for the past week about who loves coal more. Today the McCain campaign released new coal-happy radio ads in Colorado, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. The ads claim that 'clean coal means cleaner air,' but 'Obama-Biden and their liberal allies oppose clean coal.' In reality, Obama has been a consistent supporter of coal with carbon capture and sequestration since the beginning of his legislative career, to the ch ... |
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| Topics: coal, advertising, John McCain, Barack Obama, presidential race 08, elections, politics, news, Muckraker, offshore drilling (all these topics) |
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'I love coal more!' 'No, I love coal more!'
McCain and Obama campaigns trade jabs over who's a bigger coal supporter |
Kate Sheppard |
24 Sep 2008 |
Gristmill |
| At a campaign stop in Ohio last week, a questioner with a camera asked Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden why, if wind and solar are doing well, the Obama-Biden campaign is supporting 'clean coal.' Biden gave this confusing response: We're not supporting 'clean coal.' Guess what: China's building two every week, two dirty coal plants. And it's polluting the United States, it's causing people to die ... China is gonna burn 300 years of bad coal un ... |
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| Topics: video, advertising, coal, Barack Obama, John McCain, presidential race 08, elections, energy, politics, news, Muckraker (all these topics) |
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Obama's own pander
Direct mailers from Obama campaign hail 'clean Kentucky coal' |
Kate Sheppard |
06 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Hillary Clinton has been pilloried for pandering to working class voters with her gas-tax holiday proposal. But she's not the only one telling working-class voters what they want to hear. 'Barack Obama believes in clean Kentucky coal.' So reads a direct mailer being distributed in Kentucky ahead of the state's May 20 primary. (Click the image to the right for a larger version.) Clark Stevens, press secretary for the Obama campaign in Kentucky, confirmed that the mail ... |
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| Topics: barack obama, coal, elections, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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