Senator Shelley Moore Capito jumped on the GOP tall tale bandwagon tonight, piling on the insults and falsehoods about Hillary Clinton’s record during her speech to the Republican National Convention.
Unlike Trump, Clinton promises to revitalize coal communities by bringing them into the 21st century, not plead ignorance to climate change and leave them in the dark.
CAPITO’S CLAIM:
Shelley Moore Capito claimed that Hillary Clinton’s “anti-coal agenda” would hurt regular people. “Hillary Clinton has promised ‘to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business’. When I think about Hillary Clinton’s pursuit of an anti-coal agenda — I think about the miner who wakes up before dawn for another ten-hour shift. I think about the bus driver who drives the miners’ children to school. I think about the nurse who cares for the retired miners. I think about the loan officer at the community bank. And I think about the hundreds of coal equipment distributors. I weep for the fabric of my state. What I find most troubling is that Hillary Clinton — fails to recognize that her calculated policies affect real people. Those who want to feed their families — own homes — pay for college — and pursue the American Dream. These goals should not and cannot fall out of reach.”
THE FACTS:
Hillary Clinton has a plan to revitalize coal communities. “Hillary Clinton is committed to meeting the climate change challenge as President and making the United States a clean energy superpower. At the same time, she will not allow coal communities to be left behind—or left out of our economic future. That’s why Clinton announced a $30 billion plan to ensure that coal miners and their families get the benefits they’ve earned and respect they deserve, to invest in economic diversification and job creation, and to make coal communities an engine of US economic growth in the 21st century as they have been for generations.” [The Briefing, HillaryClinton.com, 11/12/15]
Moody’s report: Job losses resulting from Donald Trump’s economic policies would most affect working families. “Everyone receives a tax cut under his proposals, but the bulk of the cuts would go to those at the very top of the income distribution, and the job losses resulting from his other policies would likely hit lower- and middle-income households the hardest.” [Moody’s Analytics report, 6/20/16]