#MTGov Daily Rundown: Unlike Bullock, West Virginia Dem Has Courage to Denounce Hillary Clinton Over Her Anti-Coal Agenda
Montana and West Virginia are both coal producing states that continue to suffer substantially from the Obama Administration's War on Coal. In West Virginia, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jim Justice did the right thing and stood up for his state's interests and denounced Hillary Clinton over her radical anti-coal agenda.
"West Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jim Justice said “I cannot be a supporter of Hillary Clinton” during an appearance Monday on the state’s MetroNews radio network. Justice, a billionaire whose business interests include coal mining and West Virginia’s famed Greenbrier Resort, said he will not support the former secretary of state over her proposed energy policy." -Politico, 8/22/2016
Justice simply stated that Clinton's position on coal is "completely wrong."
“'The reason I can’t be is her position on coal is diametrically, completely wrong in many, many different ways,' Justice said." -Politico, 8/22/2016
“'The reason I can’t be is her position on coal is diametrically, completely wrong in many, many different ways,' Justice said." -Politico, 8/22/2016
Hillary Clinton promises a radical anti-coal agenda for Montana and the United States.
“…we’re gonna put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business”-Hillary Clinton, on CNN, 3/13/2016
Clinton has said that the country has to move away from coal.
"We need to move away from coal. Everybody understands that. There's no doubt about it." -Hillary Clinton event with the League of Conservation Voters, 11/9/2015
"We need to move away from coal. Everybody understands that. There's no doubt about it." -Hillary Clinton event with the League of Conservation Voters, 11/9/2015
Hillary Clinton has called the Obama Administration's Clean Power Plan, which threatens thousands of Montana jobs, "the floor not the ceiling, and promised to go further." Even to the point of using illegal executive orders to bypass Congress.
"Clinton called the plan 'the floor, not the ceiling,' and said she would go further.
Her plan contemplates using executive orders if Congress tried to block her proposals." -Washington Post, 8/2/2015
Meanwhile, Montana's Governor Bullock has endorsed Hillary Clinton and will not stand up for Montana's coal industry.
- In June, his office did not even send a representative to a hearing on a bill sponsored by Rep. Zinke and Sen. Daines that seeks to protect Montana coal jobs.
- This is after Bullock waited until the last minute (under pressure from Gianforte) to call on Washington Gov. Jay Inslee to veto a bill that paves the way for the shutdown of the Colstrip Power Plant AFTER first saying he wouldn’t demand a veto.
- Last year, Bullock refused to support Attorney General Tim Fox’s lawsuit against the Obama/EPA Clean Power Plan which threatens thousands of Montana jobs.
A big issue is for Bullock is that his campaign has taken a combined thousands of dollars from environmental activists with the Montana Environmental Information Center and the Sierra Club of Montana. Both groups sued to shut down Colstrip Units 1 and 2.
"'The firm MEIC that actually pursued this lawsuit against Colstrip, their board members have written checks, five of them have written checks to Gov. Bullock’s campaign,' Gianforte said. 'He’s bought and paid for by special interests that shut down Montana jobs.'”
Back in West Virginia, Jim Justice notes that he doesn't have to be a rubber stamp for Hillary Clinton.
“'Just because we have a specific person that’s running for the highest office in the land doesn’t mean that I’m going to just rubber-stamp it. I don’t rubber-stamp anybody,' Justice added."-Politico, 8/22/2016
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