Democratic U.S. Senate candidate in WV uses SOTU to attack Obama on coal, blame EPA for water crisis

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

With "Democrats" like these, who needs Republicans?



Press release:

TENNANT STATEMENT ON STATE OF THE UNION
Tennant: ‘President is Wrong on Coal’

(CHARLESTON, WV) – West Virginia Secretary of State and U.S. Senate candidate Natalie Tennant released the following statement ahead of tonight’s State of the Union Address. Reports say the President is expected to focus on economic opportunity. But, Tennant criticized the President’s policies on coal, saying his position hurts opportunity and threatens West Virginia jobs.

“If the President wants to promote opportunity, he needs to rethink his energy policies. The President is wrong on coal and I will fight him or anyone else who wants to take our coal jobs,” Tennant said.

“At the height of our water crisis, no one could tell us how harmful the chemical was or what levels were safe. But, the EPA has time to go after our coal jobs in West Virginia? That doesn’t make sense. The EPA needs a new set of priorities.”

https://twitter.com/NatalieforWV

[2naSalit]

1. Sounds like she

could use a few more functioning brain cells.

[Spider Jerusalem]

2. Coal is horrifically polluting and what's there should stay in the ground.

In the best of all possible worlds we wouldn't even be having a conversation about "clean coal", we'd have moved on to wind and solar and tidal and other renewables. The fact that the economy of West Virginia is largely tied to a filthy and environmentally-destructive industry is hugely unfortunate, but at the same time the jobs of X thousand West Virginians are insignificant and meaningless next to the future of the planet.

Coal? Worse than nuclear by orders of magnitude. The number of deaths from coal-mining accidents outnumbers the deaths from nuclear-power accidents by a tremendous margin; it's in the tens or hundreds of thousands. The number of deaths from coal pollution is probably in the millions (lung cancer, emphysema, respiratory disorders...in just one incident, the Great Smog in London in 1952, excess mortality for the four days of smog was estimated at 4000 people (more than have died as a result of nuclear power); that's not counting the people who died of the cumulative effects of lesser smogs over the century or so before the UK put strict environmental regulations in place, and are still dying of it in places like China.

[BlueMTexpat]

3. The ignorance and RW TPs

are astounding and tragic. If she is a Dem, the only thing that we can be sure of is that ANY GOP candidate will be FAR to her right.

[SunSeeker]

4. Oy. Well at least she wouldn 't vote with the GOP to filibuster...I think. nt

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Oferchrissakes, she's running in West Virginia...

not Massachussetts, so what else does anyone expect her to say?

Astounding as the revelation may be, politicians rarely get elected by telling their constituents how wrong they are.