AFL-CIO chief Trumka to campaign with Clinton in… Pennsylvania

In yet another sign that Team Obama is increasingly worried about their prospects in Pennsylvania, they’re bringing in the big guns of big labor to do some damage control in the Keystone state’s coal country. Earlier this year, the longtime Democrat-endorsing United Mine Workers of America conspicuously abstained from endorsing President Obama as they did wholeheartedly in 2008, reflecting the growing sentiments of energy and mining workers in Appalachia and across the country that President Obama doesn’t exactly have their best interests at heart — and how. As much as Team Obama would like us to believe that Team Romney’s recent bid for Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes is one of the last “desperate” acts of a dying campaign, bringing in Richard Trumka to do some last-minute campaigning there demonstrates that the very real problem of Obama’s “war on coal” is definitely rearing it’s ugly head. Via The Hill:

In prepared remarks shared with The Hill, the head of the nation’s largest labor federation will say at a Pittsburgh, Pa. rally with former President Bill Clinton that Romney would cut back on clean coal technology jobs and that Romney, as Massachusetts governor, opposed the coal industry.
“Mitt Romney says there’s a war on coal, and he’s right. But it’s a war he started in Massachusetts when he sued the EPA to force new regulations to kill coal jobs. Today, Mitt Romney has campaigned against those same exact regulations and he blames them on President Obama. But we know the truth,” Trumka will say.
“Mitt Romney says he’ll be a coal president, but he swore he’d cut funding for clean coal technology. And you know and I know that clean coal technology creates jobs, good jobs. And if that funding gets cut, those jobs will get cut,” Trumka will say.

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