Hillary Clinton is planning a “listening” tour of Kentucky, West Virginia and Ohio early next week, and the president of the Kentucky Coal Association believes her campaign will be “very careful” about who will get to speak with her.
The KCA doesn’t want anyone to forget about how Clinton promised her energy proposals would put many coal miners out of a job.
“Secretary Clinton is traveling to Ashland, which is north of our Eastern Kentucky coalfield, but people there know her anti-coal positions, especially the thousands of workers who have lost their livelihoods due to the closure of AK Steel,” Bill Bissett, president of the Kentucky Coal Association, tells The American Mirror.
“I’m sure her handlers will be very careful about who gets to interact with Sec. Clinton, as her anti-coal statements precede her.”
When the Clinton campaign opened its Kentucky office on Friday, the KCA reminded Appalachia voters about Clinton’s anti-coal statements last month.
“I’m the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity using clean renewable energy as the key into coal country,” Clinton said March 13. “Because we are going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”
The KCA says “hard questions need to be asked.”
“Our goal at the Kentucky Coal Association (KCA) is to make certain that our membership in addition to our fellow Kentuckians know the positions of candidates to any office in relation to the use and production of coal, which is huge economic contributor to the Commonwealth of Kentucky,” Bissett tells The American Mirror.
“With Secretary Clinton, she had made it very clear that she will continue and expand the anti-coal policies of the Obama Administration, which is an unpopular position to take here in Kentucky.”
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