Democratic WV Governor Candidate: "I can't support Clinton"

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Hilarious that a party that used to care for the miners is now literally putting all its chances in a ridiculously named plutocrat mine owner.

[DINGO Joe]

But but but... Only people are running away from Donald Trump, not Untrustworthy, Lazy, Lyin' Crooked Hillary!

Clinton looks upon the citizens of West Virginia with your typical liberal disdain and wants to put the coal workers out of work. I'd be running far, far away from her if I were the Democrat governor candidate as well.

In 2009, GA got more than half of it's coal from Appalachia, now they get 10%.  Replaced with cheaper natural gas and cheaper coal.  Appalachian coal is dead to GA.

http://www.eia.gov/coal/distribution/quarterly/archive/pdf/09q4_destination.pdf

http://www.eia.gov/coal/distribution/quarterly/pdf/15q4_destination.pdf

Keep on lying to them.

[Illiniwek]

Hillary probably gave him permission to do this.

[GMantis]

I'd have been more surprised if a WV Dem running for statewide office said they were supporting Clinton.

Pretty sure WV Dems endorsed the nominee in 2008 and 2012 and won in landslides.

Both the gubernatorial and senatorial nominee for the Democrats refused to endorse Obama that year.

[Kingpoleon]

I can't even begrudge him this - Trump is incredibly popular in West Virginia. It's a whole different, depressing world over there. I don't like it, but I understand it.

Maybe I'm remembering wrong, but weren't you one of the people criticizing Natalie Tennant in 2014 for doing this same exact thing? In fact, I'm pretty sure she never went this far in criticizing Obama.

He's changed his political views vastly. Changing how he was two years ago is okay. At least that's what everyone told me when I criticized him for changing his positions on so many politicians over the years.

[pppolitics]

He has to do what he has to do.

[Blue3]

1. West Virginia
2. He's WV's only billionaire
3. He's a coal-mining billionaire
4. He was registered as a Republican until a year ago
5. West Virginia

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

It's WV and he wants to win a state that HRC will lose by 30%...