West Virginia Delegation Featured in Los Angeles Times Story on RNC

West Virginia Delegation Featured in Los Angeles Times Story of RNC

In a story about Republican delegates wearing hats and costumes relevant to their regions, the Times, quotes W. Va Delegate Todd Gunter:

The West Virginia delegation sported (if that's the right word) black miners' helmets with labels reading, "Friends of coal."
"We have the most underground miners in the United States," said delegate Todd Gunter of Charleston, W.Va., "and our economy, we feel, is suffering under President Obama." He said the Environmental Protection Agency under Obama has enforced the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act in ways that have limited coal production and use. "We have the most abundant reserve of coal in the world in America. We just can't mine it and we can't burn it," he said.

And when you look at the numbers, 17 million tons less produced in West Virginia in 2011 than in 2008, you know the War on Coal is as alive as West Virginia Republicans and the United Mine Workers of America say it is.