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Whose war on coal?

Mitch McConnell seems to have boxed himself into a corner with no way out. The central issue of his re-election campaign is that he is coal’s biggest supporter and Alison Lundergan Grimes will be a rubber stamp for what he says is a “war on coal.” But McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao, sits on the board of Bloomberg Philanthropies which is spending $50 million over four years to retire coal burning fire plants and 16 plants in Kentucky have already been affected.

McConnell’s defense is this initiative began a few months before his wife accepted her board appointment but she took the position knowing full well Bloomberg Philanthropies was working to “decimate” the coal industry and took it anyway. If McConnell was really the champion of coal he proclaims to be, he would balk at any association of his wife with the enemy of coal. And as his political supporter, Chao doesn’t appear to care about Kentucky coal either.

She has made no comment condemning what this organization is doing to destroy Kentucky’s coal industry and thousands of Kentucky jobs. And if that’s not bad enough, this sheds light on the fact that McConnell tries to paint Obama as leading a war on coal when his own wife is professionally associated with a self-proclaimed enemy of coal and says nothing. McConnell’s own wife appears to be the real rubber stamp on the war on coal. For McConnell the war on coal begins in his own house.

Sen. McConnell claims he is fighting for coal while his wife draws a fat check sitting on the board of an organization that is fighting coal. I can’t wait to read the predictable nonsense Teflon Mitch submits to the Courier-Journal in his feeble attempt to wriggle out of this trick bag.

Source: The Courier Journal