Flaccavento in the 9th District
Rep. Morgan Griffith’s extreme conservatism does not serve well a district facing an economic transition.
Virginia’s 9th Congressional District sprawls from Salem to the Kentucky border. Although its population is most concentrated at the eastern end between Salem, Montgomery County and Radford, much of the focus of the campaign has been on the coalfields to the southwest. And if coal is to be the defining issue of this campaign, Anthony Flaccavento is the clear choice.
Coal companies have no greater friend on Capitol Hill than first-term incumbent Rep. Morgan Griffith. Coal miners and their families could have no greater friend than challenger Flaccavento.
October 24, 2012 - 6:25 AM
So the supporter of the man who wants to destroy coal as an energy source(eliminating coal jobs) is the person who coal miners should support? Little faulty reasoning there. Think it through one more time.
There is no “man who wants to destroy coal as an energy source” to support. That is a right wing meme. It is not true, it is not factual, it is not even credible. We should be working to make that “clean coal” dream a reality, but the EPA nor Obama have any control over the cheaper and cleaner natural gas that is kicking coal’s butt, nor the cyclical nature of mining. If we do have to choose between cleaner air with another source and coal, there is no contest.
Politics makes for interesting mind games. Are we pretending now that there have never been mine lay-offs and closures? When the mine owners are selling the mine and leaving town, you get back to us on who wants to “destroy coal”. Even if the EPA had remained dormant, this would still be happening.
Flaccavento has proven his devotion to the area and to the ideals he is running on. A rare thing, and doubtless doomed to be rejected in favor of the entrenched interests at play far above mere workers or voters. The Ninth will not find better representation.
Griffith will be re-elected, whereby he can forget about coal country again for 18 months.
HMM Sandi shall I quote” They can build a coal plant, It will just bankrupt them” OBAMA
Natural gas is destroying coal, it’s shameful that Griffith is trying to hoodwink the voters. No utility has applied for a coal burning plant permit in years! If Griffith had any accomplishments to run on, why doesn’t he use them? Oh, that’s right, he hasn’t done anything worth talking about. Pathetic.
HMMMM, you can quote whomever you like, Obama was speaking of the “Cap and Trade” bill that was defeated and the way a fight for cleaner air would have to go.
Maybe you want to quote your friend Romney on coal fired plants? “I will not create jobs or hold jobs that kill people. And that plant kills people.” No, of course you don’t!
And why do you folks NEVER let Obama finish his thought: “This notion of no coal, I think, is an illusion, because the fact of the matter is that right now, we are getting a lot of our energy from coal, and China is building a coal-fired plant once a week. So what we have to do then is we have to figure out how can we use coal without emitting greenhouse gases and carbon. And how can we sequester that carbon and capture it? If we can’t, then we’re going to still be working on alternatives.”
http://www.politifact.com/ohio/statements/2011/mar/14/ohio-coal-association/ohio-coal-industry-says-obama-promised-bankrupt-co/
Never let the facts get in the way of a good right wing meme!
Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals the highly respected UK Met Office in a report released recently based on East Anglia Univ. global temperature data, the most respected source for global temperatures.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217286/Global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago-reveals-Met-Office-report-quietly-released–chart-prove-it.html#ixzz2AECiuExH
Nobody believes in global warming anymore. Even Obama never mentions it now!
Well that sure dispatches that old “hoax” hunh? I guess Snopes will have it under “Urban Legends” any day now. Whew! What a relief! Just the thought of a Romney win has started righting the world. Billy Graham was right, it is not a cult who was racially exclusive until 1978, it is God’s favored group in action.
No Sandi..I dont let facts get in the way..when your President allowed the Murder of our Ambassedor and 3 other Americans. Yes point blank.
It is his admin. and to me he is an accessory to being ignorant.
@8 – That’s not what the UK Met Office said. The UK Met Office did not release a statement suggesting that “global warming stopped 16 years ago.” The UK Met Office disavows any association with Mr. Rose and his article and says it was never asked any questions regarding the actual science of climate change and global warming by Mr. Rose. They released a statement on their official blog indicating that the article is misleading fiction and that their data, as well as the date of thousands of other scientists around the globe, clearly show that the Earth is warming.
http://metofficenews.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/met-office-in-the-media-14-october-2012/
@8 – And here’s a succinct article explaining how and why David Rose,the author of the article you linked, cherry-picked the data to come to his ridiculous conclusion. Note the 5th graph in particular.
http://tamino.wordpress.com/2012/10/21/temperature-analysis-by-david-rose-doesnt-smell-so-sweet/
@11 You should review your own link more closely!
“Over the last 140 years global surface temperatures have risen by about 0.8ºC. However, within this record there have been several periods lasting a decade or more during which temperatures have risen very slowly or cooled. The current period of reduced warming is not unprecedented and 15 year long periods are not unusual.
“…we also know that changes in the surface temperature occur not just due to internal variability, but are also influenced by “external forcings”, such as changes in solar activity, volcanic eruptions or aerosol emissions. Combined, several of these factors could account for some or all of the reduced warming trend seen over the last decade – but this is an area of ongoing research.”
http://metofficenews.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/met-office-in-the-media-14-october-2012/
So the vicissitudes of warming and cooling are multi-factorial and normal. The Met Office is not totally disavowing the article I linked! Global warming and cooling has been the norm through the millenniums.
For those that worship at the altar of “man made global” warming, no amount of scientific evidence to the contrary will change their closed minds. It is not settled science, just settled liberal agenda.
Anyway it is a dead issue for the general public, not worthy of mention in the national campaign!
@13 – I did read the link very closely and didn’t miss anything. The data show that the earth is indeed warming over time and it’s normal for fluctuations in temperature to occur in small time periods (like the last 16 years). Rose cherry-picked data to mislead the public on the data. There is a difference between long-term warming and short-term fluctuations. The thing that has scientists concerned is that accelerated amount of warming that’s occurred during the past 40 years. Since 1970, each decade has been warmer than the previous decade. The long-term data are conclusive and it is very much settled science that the earth is warming and that human activity is the driving force for the change. There is NO legitimate scientific evidence to the contrary.