Ohio coal miners held a press conference on Friday to tell
Barack Obama to quit his lies and mistruths about them.
The Ohio Intelligencer reported, via Wake Up America:
Coal miners at the American Energy Corp. Century Mine said
they want President Barack Obama to stop what they term “the war on coal” – and
to stop spreading “mistruths” about them.
Miners gathered Friday afternoon to express their opposition
to Obama’s energy and environmental policies, which they believe threaten their
jobs. Miner Mitch Miracle read aloud a letter the miners mailed to Obama that
outlines some of their concerns.
The miners said Obama’s campaign team is running ads filled
with “blatantly false” statements about the miners regarding their
participation in Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s August
campaign stop at the Century Mine. These ads assert that the miners were forced
to attend the event by the mine’s owner, Robert Murray.
“There are numerous false statements and absolute lies
concerning our participation in this event, mostly started by a local ‘shock
jock’ radio host,” the miners’ letter to Obama states. “Why would you (Obama)
lie about the 500 working miners who have signed this letter? We, the employees
of the Century Mine would request you immediately stop these false ads.”
This summer, Murray Energy Corp., parent company of the
Beallsville mine, cut or relocated 56 workers with the closure of the Red Bird
West mine near Brilliant. Murray also cut 29 mining jobs from The Ohio Valley
Coal Co.’s Powhatan No. 6 Mine. All of this was done, Robert Murray said,
because of Obama’s “war on coal.”
Murray then hosted the Romney campaign stop in Beallsville
in August, during which many miners appeared behind Romney as the former
Massachusetts governor spoke about the need to protect coal mining jobs. In
response to the assertion some have made about the miners being forced to appear
with Romney, the miners made several points on Friday.
Thanks to Gateway Pundit for this report, nowhere found in major progressive news casting.
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