Robert Murray, 2000: "Gore is not a balanced person." Inserted pro-Bush letters in paychecks

...But Murray now sees a threat even bigger than the Clean Air Act coming over the horizon. The threat is the Democratic candidate for president.

"If Al Gore is elected president of the United States," Murray repeats several times, "the American coal industry will be virtually wiped out. The Clinton-Gore administration has been implementing the Kyoto environmental treaty through executive orders and regulations. The Senate does not have to ratify it. A Gore administration would destroy the industry by itself."

"When you read his book, 'Earth in the Balance,'" Murray says, "you can see that Al Gore is not a balanced person. The Edison Electric Institute did a study that concluded that if the Clinton-Gore administration's policies were continued, the proportion of U.S. electricity that comes from coal would drop to 10 percent. Right now, it's 50 percent. That would be the end of the industry."....

Murray has taken care to educate his workers about what it would mean to elect Gore, who helped negotiate the Kyoto deal -- which exempts developing countries such as China, Indonesia and Mexico from the restrictions that would be imposed on U.S. industry and U.S. job creation. Last week, Murray inserted a letter with his workers' paychecks urging them to vote for George W. Bush, who twice in the first presidential debate last Tuesday endorsed clean-coal technologies....

Many of the workers did not know that their own labor union, the United Mine Workers, had recently endorsed Gore.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17662

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Not clean power!! ::false gasp::

To put it politely...

I don't wish that man well

should have spent more time worrying about mine safety, and less time worrying about his bank account?

Greed, fear and lies. :grr:

would call Al Gore unbalanced!

... that he feels he needs to call others he blames for his own mental issues by the same name!

This morning, NPR threw Murray a huge softball interview, during which he was allowed at length to go all broken-voiced with sorrow over the lost miners. This touching moment, however, did not preclude him from reiterating the mountain's evil nature, nor did he refrain from calling the miners' families "irrational" people who "don't understand technology." SOB.

That about sums up Murray's sense of culpability.

I thought all the reports of Murray's latest disaster
said that he was running a NON-union operation, and had
refused any union rescue teams to help the recovery effort.

Was it different in 2000? :shrug:

I dunno. I do know that Utah was a non-union mine.

The article talks about his including Bush campaign literature with the miners' paychecks:

FUCKING JUST TAKE YOUR BILLIONS AND GO RETIRE AND LEAVE US TO SAVE THIS FUCKING PLANET!!!!

:grr: :grr: :grr:

will all the dead people mine for you? You look like someone who will not be around much longer, so maybe you just don't care, but your kids and your grandkids and the ones after that! We must change, whether you like it or not!

My heart really bleeds... :eyes: