Joe Manchin accused of lining his pockets

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Guno צְבִי

We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
The 2020 census found that West Virginia lost a greater percentage of its residents than any other state in the past decade and is now the only state that has fewer residents than it did in the 1950s. Much of the decline is the result of jobs in coal and steel being wiped out. West Virginia, the nation's second-largest coal producer, has lost 56% of its coal mining jobs since 2009 as power plants pivoted toward renewable energy sources. Now, only 13,000 coal-associated jobs remain in the state.

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of putting his own financial well-being ahead of the state's and argue that pandering to nostalgia does more harm than good. They've pointed to his cozy relationship with "Big Coal" and claim all the money he's made could be clouding his judgment.

"It doesn't take a genius to know you can't survive on coal, and [Manchin] needs to do better," Morgantown resident Whitney Lancaster told the Washington Examiner. "I know that's how he makes his money, but he represents all of us, not just a few of us."

Since 2012, Manchin has made $4.35 million from stock he owns in Energy Systems, the Fairmont-based coal company he founded in 1988, according to his Senate financial disclosures. He’s also made up to $236,000 from notes receivable and stocks he owns in Farmington Resources. And last year, Manchin made half a million dollars off the coal company he gifted his son, which is about three times the $174,000 salary he pulls in yearly as a public servant.

The real rub for West Virginians is that so much of Manchin's net worth is tied to a carbon-heavy industry he's hellbent on protecting — even if it comes at the expense of his constituents.

https://news.yahoo.com/joe-manchin-accused-lining-pockets-110000513.html


And the hillbillies continue to elect this bohunk
 
guno said:
The 2020 census found that West Virginia lost a greater percentage of its residents than any other state in the past decade and is now the only state that has fewer residents than it did in the 1950s. Much of the decline is the result of jobs in coal and steel being wiped out. West Virginia, the nation's second-largest coal producer, has lost 56% of its coal mining jobs since 2009 as power plants pivoted toward renewable energy sources. Now, only 13,000 coal-associated jobs remain in the state.

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of putting his own financial well-being ahead of the state's and argue that pandering to nostalgia does more harm than good. They've pointed to his cozy relationship with "Big Coal" and claim all the money he's made could be clouding his judgment.

"It doesn't take a genius to know you can't survive on coal, and [Manchin] needs to do better," Morgantown resident Whitney Lancaster told the Washington Examiner. "I know that's how he makes his money, but he represents all of us, not just a few of us."

Since 2012, Manchin has made $4.35 million from stock he owns in Energy Systems, the Fairmont-based coal company he founded in 1988, according to his Senate financial disclosures. He’s also made up to $236,000 from notes receivable and stocks he owns in Farmington Resources. And last year, Manchin made half a million dollars off the coal company he gifted his son, which is about three times the $174,000 salary he pulls in yearly as a public servant.

The real rub for West Virginians is that so much of Manchin's net worth is tied to a carbon-heavy industry he's hellbent on protecting — even if it comes at the expense of his constituents.

https://news.yahoo.com/joe-manchin-accused-lining-pockets-110000513.html


And the hillbillies continue to elect this bohunk
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Yes, people say Manchin is just representing his state. But clearly he represents himself.
 
guno said:
The 2020 census found that West Virginia lost a greater percentage of its residents than any other state in the past decade and is now the only state that has fewer residents than it did in the 1950s. Much of the decline is the result of jobs in coal and steel being wiped out. West Virginia, the nation's second-largest coal producer, has lost 56% of its coal mining jobs since 2009 as power plants pivoted toward renewable energy sources. Now, only 13,000 coal-associated jobs remain in the state.

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of putting his own financial well-being ahead of the state's and argue that pandering to nostalgia does more harm than good. They've pointed to his cozy relationship with "Big Coal" and claim all the money he's made could be clouding his judgment.

"It doesn't take a genius to know you can't survive on coal, and [Manchin] needs to do better," Morgantown resident Whitney Lancaster told the Washington Examiner. "I know that's how he makes his money, but he represents all of us, not just a few of us."

Since 2012, Manchin has made $4.35 million from stock he owns in Energy Systems, the Fairmont-based coal company he founded in 1988, according to his Senate financial disclosures. He’s also made up to $236,000 from notes receivable and stocks he owns in Farmington Resources. And last year, Manchin made half a million dollars off the coal company he gifted his son, which is about three times the $174,000 salary he pulls in yearly as a public servant.

The real rub for West Virginians is that so much of Manchin's net worth is tied to a carbon-heavy industry he's hellbent on protecting — even if it comes at the expense of his constituents.

https://news.yahoo.com/joe-manchin-accused-lining-pockets-110000513.html


And the hillbillies continue to elect this bohunk
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This isn't a secret.

And it isn't only Manchin.

But he should do the right thing and kill himself.
 
Key to Biden’s Climate Agenda Likely to Be Cut Because of Manchin Opposition

WASHINGTON — The most powerful part of President Biden’s climate agenda — a program to rapidly replace the nation’s coal- and gas-fired power plants with wind, solar and nuclear energy — will likely be dropped from the massive budget bill pending in Congress, according to congressional staffers and lobbyists familiar with the matter.

Senator Joe Manchin III, the Democrat from coal-rich West Virginia whose vote is crucial to passage of the bill, has told the White House that he strongly opposes the clean electricity program, according to three of those people. As a result, White House staffers are now rewriting the legislation without that climate provision, and are trying to cobble together a mix of other policies that could also cut emissions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/climate/biden-clean-energy-manchin.html
 
We need a distant relative who has not seen him in about a decade claiming that they are completely sure that he is a bad dude.
 
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