(Source: The New Civil Rights Movement, November 9, 2012)
Mitt Romney last month attacked President Obama‘s environmental and economic policies by running an ad featuring dozens of coal workers who, as the world now knows, were unpaid for their appearance, but forced to appear in the ad and lost a day’s pay for the privilege of doing so.
As it turns out, those workers are employed — or, in some cases as of this week, were employed — by Robert E. Murray, the owner of America’s largest privately-owned coal corporation, Murray Energy, based in Ohio.
On Wednesday, the day after Barack Obama won re-election, and because Barack Obama won re-election, coal magnate Bob Murray gathered some of his employees together, read them a prayer, and then fired them.
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