Coal-Fired Politics Fuel Kentucky Senate Race. By Evan McMorris-Santoro, TPM, August 13, 2010. "In the battle to replace the retiring Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY), don't expect either candidate to run afoul of Big Coal. Kentucky is one of the nation's largest producers of environmentalists' least-favorite fuel source, and both Republican nominee Rand Paul and Democratic nominee Jack Conway have made it clear that when it comes to energy policy, coal comes first... Even with Conway's true-blue (or, I guess, true-sooty black) support for coal production, it appears unlikely that the coal industry will get behind him in the race against Paul. Last month, plans for a consortium of huge coal producers to get together and target 'anti-coal' candidates... Conway was on the list of candidates the industry hopes to defeat. But there's another side to the industry, of course -- coal miners. Conway's campaign says his strong support for coal production can leverage workers to rally around him this fall. They point to other comments Paul made recently suggesting that the federal government has no business regulating coal mines as evidence the when the time comes, coal miners will turn out for Conway."
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