West Virginia AFL-CIO is really upset over proposed right-to-work law.

If unions would provide a valuable service to their members, they wouldn't have to worry about right-to-work laws.  Instead, they just take the members money like a farmer would milk a cow.

Via Daily Caller:

A political advocacy group is calling out the leadership of a West Virginia union for attacking a new right-to-work proposal.
Since the midterm election, the Republican majority within the state government has been proposing ideas to help improve the struggling economy. Among these ideas is a right-to-work bill which was introduced Tuesday. However, leadership within the local AFL-CIO quickly condemned the idea with some fairly harsh words.

 If the bill passes, West Virginia will become the 25^th state to outlaw forced unionization as a condition of employment.

“They’re f—ing liars,” West Virginia AFL-CIO president Kenny Perdue told the Charleston Daily Mail.
“Workplace freedom is a line of BS,” he continued. “It has nothing to do with workplace freedom. It’s employer freedom to do at will what they want to do to employees — that’s all it is.”
Keep on reading…

Democrats seem to have lost West Virginia...

The article is from the Washington ComPost, but it is well worth reading in it's entirety. 

Why? “Honestly, because everybody in this county hates Barack Obama. That is the biggest reason,” Mitchell said.
Animosity toward President Obama runs high here. He lost Wyoming County by nearly 56 percentage points last year, despite the fact that registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by 3 to 1.
But as Mitchell and her friends talked more about it, their conversation turned to fears and anxieties that had little to do with party or politics. They discussed the well-paying jobs that had vanished with the coal industry; the crime and drugs that followed; the changing culture that mocks what they hold sacred.[...]

West Virginia exists as a state because it broke away from Virginia in 1863 and refused to join the confederacy. From Franklin D. Roosevelt’s era until the 2000 election, it was among the most reliably Democratic states, one of only six that Jimmy Carter carried in 1980, and 10 that Michael S. Dukakis won in 1988.
But in the past decade or so, “West Virginia has realigned politically with the Deep South, at least in presidential elections,” historian John Alexander Williams said in a June lecture in Charleston marking the state’s 150th anniversary. “Between the 2004 and 2008 presidential elections, a time when voters were trending strongly Democratic in other parts of the nation, 366 of official Appalachia’s 410 counties increased their Republican share of presidential votes.”
In 2012, that trendline cut more deeply. Obama lost the seven West Virginia counties he had carried in 2008. It marked the first time that a major party’s presidential candidate suffered a 55-county shutout.

Comedy Gold: Obama adds clean coal to energy independence website after losing 40% of WV primary vote to TX inmate

Can you smell the fear?

Weekly Standard:

After Barack Obama's disappointing showing in the West Virginia Democratic primary--the president received less than 60 percent of the vote while a federal inmate in Texas won more than 40 percent--it seems the Obama reelection team may be realizing it has a problem in coal country.[...]

All topics are still available to read except for "fuel efficiency." That's been replaced by "clean coal." The site touts Obama's "10-year goal to develop and deploy cost-effective clean coal technology."

Comedy Gold: In WV, TX Inmate gets 40% of vote in primary against Obama

If 40% of West Virginia Democrats will vote for an inmate over President Obama, Romney is headed for a landslide of epic proportions.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Just how unpopular is President Barack Obama in some parts of the country? Enough that a man in prison in Texas is getting 4 out of 10 votes in West Virginia’s Democratic presidential primary.

The inmate, Keith Judd, is serving time at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution in Texas for making threats at the University of New Mexico in 1999. With 93 percent of precincts reporting, Obama was receiving just under 60 percent of the vote to Judd’s 40 percent.

For some West Virginia Democrats, simply running against Obama is enough to get Judd votes.

Will The Real Joe Manchin Please Stand Up?

In 2008, WV Governor Joe Manchin shilled for President Obama and his Cap-and-Trade scheme.



Now that polling shows Joe Manchin is losing his bid to replace deceased Senator Robert Byrd, he is ready to "Dead aim" at Obama's Cap-and-Trade scheme. Suddenly, Manchin realizes Cap-and-Trade is bad for West Virginia.



Will the real Joe Manchin please stand up?

PPP Poll Shocker: Republican John Raese leads Democrat Gov. Joe Manchin in the U.S. Senate special election

Robert Byrd's Senate seat was one that was thought to be in the Democrats column this November. A new PPP poll is sending shivers down the spines of Democrats. Republican John Raese leads Democrat Gov. Joe Manchin in the U.S. Senate special election. This survey of 1,397 West Virginia likely voters has Raese leading Manchin 46% to 43%. The margin of error is +/-2.6%.

Anti-Incumbent Fever Strikes Again

Anti-incumbent fever has stricken West Virginia Democratic Rep. Alan B. Mollohan, chairman of a House Appropriations subcommittee. He has lost his bid to represent Democrats in this Fall's West Virginia 1st Congressional District race. Rep. Mollohan didn't even have a primary challenger last year.

Longtime West Virginia Democratic Rep. Alan B. Mollohan on Tuesday became the latest casualty of the nation's anti-incumbent fever, losing to state Sen. Mike Oliverio in the state's 1st Congressional District primary in the most closely watched race as three states held primary contests Tuesday.

"Everybody's excited, especially about the decisiveness of this win" Oliverio campaign manager Curtis Wilkerson said at the victory party. "We've fulfilled a mandate with the Democratic party."

Why did Rep. Mollohan lose? Reportedly, voters were angry over his support of bailouts and health care reform.

The 66-year-old Mr. Mollohan, who succeeded his father in the seat, came under criticism this election cycle for lingering ethics issues and voting in favor of the 2008 economic bailout and President Obama's health care overhaul bill, which cost him the support ofpro-lifegroups concerned about increased federal funding for abortion.

Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser, an anti-abortion activist who campaigned against the incumbent, said his health care vote had cost him his job.

"Congressman Mollohan now fully realizes that votes do have consequences. Mollohans loss comes as a direct result of his vote for health care reform that included federal funding of abortion," she said Tuesday night.