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Coal Miners Deaths Could Change West Virginia Politics Forever.

 
Posted by Surinder SainiUser306_level Wednesday, April 07 2010 0 comments

coal_-_2.jpgPolitico's Ben Smith explains the "massive political implications in a state whose politics are still defined, 1920s-style, by the conflict between labor union and Democrats on one side and a single, deep-pocketed coal baron on the other." That baron, Don Blankenship, owns Massey Energy, which runs the mine where 25 coal miners died in the tragic accident. "Indeed, it's difficult to think of a figure like him in any other state in the current century."

Source: The Atlantic Wire.

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