Union official scores Republican ad featuring fake coal miner (a coal executive!)

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http://www.peoplesworld.org/union-official-scores-republican-ad-featuring-fake-coal-miner/



^^^not a coal miner^^^

A regional vice president of the United Mine Workers of America has condemned a new Republican TV ad airing in coal country because it features a coal executive masquerading as a miner.

In the ad, Heath Lovell, the vice president of River View Coal in Kentucky, accuses incumbent Democratic congressional representatives and President Obama of trying to destroy the coal industry. Lovell is wearing a t-shirt, bib overalls and a coal miner's helmet with no mention made of his position as a coal company executive.

"I've never seen anything so appalling and deceitful from the coal industry and from the Republican campaign," said Steve Earle, a regional vice president of the UMWA in Kentucky. "You have a pencil pusher acting like a coal miner."

The Romney campaign is running the ad also in the Western part of Virginia, which like much of Kentucky, West Virginia and Ohio, is part of "coal country." Romney is behind in the polls in Virginia and Ohio with conventional wisdom being that he must win one, if not both of those states in order to get on a path to victory in the Electoral College.

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How low does the bottom of that barrel go?

[nc4bo]

1. How low? Is the Abyss low enough for ya? nt

[freshwest]

8. Black hole? Event horizon? Alternative universe? Wish they'd all go back home to hell...

[Freddie]

2. He had that coal miners costume left over from Halloween last year

[Brickbat]

3. You know the rage that vets feel for toolbags who wear medals they didn't earn?

Yeah. That's about what I've got going for this asshole.

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4. 1000 x this

I can't even write what I'm thinking, I'd get my post hidden.

[Brickbat]

11. You and me both, SM.

[robinlynne]

5. just like in Florida, 2000. Gop operatives pretending to be voters.

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6. They are all pretend humans, really.

Is there anything they don't fake in trying to be "people"?

[Bozita]

7. pic...

[freshwest]

10. Manufactured consent, faux local brownshirts, the Congressional aides on the payroll of Tom Delay.

There is a federal statue on what they did, which was a federal crime. But I've lost the file.

There was an article called 'Where are they now?' in which they're livng the life of luxury.

The guys in this venture intended to get a lot more from their investment of half a million:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021227665

[justiceischeap]

9. Looks like RMoney just lost the coal vote. nt

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12. Oddly enough, the UMWA (IIRC) were not endorsing a candidate this year.

I wonder if they will change their minds because of this. It was kind of a minor shock when they came out for a non-endorsement of Obama for this election...