US Presidential Election: Tuesday November 6th, 2012

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Murray Energy Miners Allege They Had To Give Up Pay To Attend 'Mandatory' Romney Rall

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/28/century-mine-romney-ohio-mandatory_n_1836674.html

Would you give up a day’s pay to see Mitt Romney in the flesh? Workers at one Ohio coal mine might not have had a choice.

Earlier this month, Mitt Romney was welcomed for a campaign event at the Century Mine in Beallsville, Ohio, by hundreds of coal workers and their families. Now many of the mine's workers are saying they were forced to give up a day-worth of pay to attend the event, and they feared they might be fired if they didn’t, according to local news radio WWVA.

The claims have been mostly denied by Rob Moore, Chief Financial Officer of Murray Energy Company, which owns the mine. He acknowledges that workers weren’t paid that day but says no one was made to attend the event. Well, kind of.

"Our managers communicated to our workforce that the attendance at the Romney event was mandatory, but no one was forced to attend," he told local news radio WWVA, which has received several emails from workers claiming that the company records names of workers that don't attend those types of events.

The company's interest in having its employees show support for Romney may be a result of its CEO's close ties with the presumptive Republican nominee. In May, Romney teamed up with Murray's CEO Bob Murray for a fundraising event in West Virginia. And Murray's made no secret of his support for the Republican party, previously backing Rick Perry.

In addition, his company has donated more than $900,000 to Republican candidates in the last two years, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Murray, who is also a climate-change denier, has been an outspoken critic of President Obama’s stance on coal. That view may be why Moore told WWVA that having employees attend the Romney event “was in the best interest of anyone that's related to the coal industry in this area or the entire country."

This isn’t the first time workers have been frustrated by a Mitt Romney campaign event either. Employees of Sensata Technologies, a company owned by Romney’s previous employer Bain Capital, protested a campaign event earlier this month in Bettendorf, Iowa. In that case, Romney didn't respond to questions about what he would do to prevent their jobs being outsourced, The Rock River Times reports.

Now why should we be surprised?
 
Akin has apparently also just said that if baby a nurtured with breastmilk they won't become gay.
 
It's from The Daily Currant. Other headlines from that site include "Glenn Beck Introduces Gold-Plated Muslim Detector", "Liberals Celebrating Independence With Flag-Burning Gay Orgy Birth Control Expo at Jefferson Memorial", and "Penn State Seriously Considering Hiring Freeze on Child Sex Abusers".
 
The Republicans are pretty much the party of plutocrats, aristocrats, big businesses and finance corporations. The unabashed plutocracy are really trying to accomplish the declension of the middle class. Not a great sell, I'd say.
 
Was it just me, or perhaps the audio didn't pick it up, but when Iowa announced 22 votes for Paul and 6 for Romney, the lady on stage only announced Romney's votes. :lol:


Btw, where are the black and brown people?
 
Turns out that Isaac is now a Category 1 storm, won't do serious damage.

Looking forward to Ann Romneys speech.
 
The Ron Paul issue surely has fecked his son's future chances. Eggsellent. He might as well run independent and feck Romney's bid. This could get interesting in the coming weeks.
 
Chcuk Todd got through that tricky subject in the end...explaining how all the minorities in delegations from Samoa, USVI and PR are seated where the cameras can pick up the ethnic members.

Diversity rules but none of those territories can vote for POTUS!
 
Republicans apparently pissed off because they think Obama is trying to steal their thunder (no pun intended) by making a speech about Isaac hours before the RNC.
 
Official Stirs Texas City With Talk of Rebellion

There are no words to express the hatred brewing in this country towards the President


LUBBOCK, Tex. — A hearing on a proposed tax increase had just started at the county courthouse here Monday when Grace Rogers, a retired teacher, addressed local leaders. Ms. Rogers said she supported the idea of increasing the property tax to 34.6 cents per $100 valuation from 32.9 cents to finance the hiring of additional sheriff’s deputies — with one reservation.
It was that, she said, “it does not fund a paramilitary to create an insurrection and rebellion against the United States.”

A few days before, the county’s top elected official, County Judge Tom Head, made an appearance on a local television station to generate support for the tax increase. He said he was expecting civil unrest if President Obama is re-elected, and that the president would send United Nations forces into Lubbock, population 233,740, to stop any uprising.

“He is going to try to hand over the sovereignty of the United States to the U.N.,” Mr. Head said on Fox 34 last week. “O.K., what’s going to happen when that happens? I’m thinking worst-case scenario: civil unrest, civil disobedience, civil war, maybe. And we’re not talking just a few riots here and demonstrations. We’re talking Lexington, Concord, take up arms and get rid of the guy.”
 
At least John McCain was a man of honor in some respects. Mitt Romney is just a total douche, an airhead and an asshole.
 
Josef Goebbels to speak later. Seriously, these people look insane. And my governor (Christie) is one of the biggest idiots.
 
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