Rand Paul coal industry message boy.

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http://www.kentucky.com/2011/04/05/1696951/coal-profits-vs-miners-lungs.html


Paul apparently prefers that the cost of black lung be paid by the hourly workers who mine coal, rather than by the companies that sell it or those who consume it in the form of electricity.

The direction of Paul's empathy is not surprising; the coal industry has been good to him.

Alliance Resource Partners, the Tulsa-based company that is headed by Kentuckian Joe Craft and operates underground mines in Western Kentucky, gave $2.4 million to American Crossroads, the political organization founded by Republican strategist Karl Rove and former Republican National Committee chairman Mike Duncan of Martin County.

[Drale]

1. Of course Paul only represents the coal company's

not the workers at said company's.

[ProSense]

2. Rand Paul is

a RW Republican: Rand Paul commits to Ralph Reed's 'Faith and Freedom' conference

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5. He really suckered in the Tea Party types. He went from

zero to sellout in a blink of an eye.

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3. Is that why he said something to the effect that if mining was that dirty

and dangerous, people would simply quit working and the companies would suffer? something like that.
he is so against tightened regulation of coal and gas.

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4. He wants the EPA out of Ky.