“The reason I can’t be [a Clinton supporter] is her position on coal is diametrically, completely wrong in many, many different ways”, he told West Virginia MetroNews’s “Talkline”.
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Clinton is polling far behind Trump, but she’d likely be behind Trump no matter what, since West Virginia has gone to the Republican nominee in the past four presidential elections.
“Jim Justice, a billionaire who owns multiple coal mines in the state, told a talk radio host Monday that Clinton’s environmental policies, and their effects on the coal industry, prevent him from supporting her”. Mainly referring to a comment by Clinton in May, when she emphatically said under her presidency many coal miners world be out of a job and coal companies no longer in business, according to The Hill.
Justice, meanwhile, sees a good future ahead for coal and criticizes people who say the industry’s decline can not be stopped. She lost the state to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) by double digits. On Monday, August 22, 2016, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in West Virginia said he can not support Clinton. The only billionaire in West Virginia, he purchased the Greenbrier Resort in 2009.
Justice faces state Senate president Bill Cole (R) in the race for the governorship. “Just because we have a specific person that’s running for the highest office in the land doesn’t mean that I’m going to just rubber-stamp it”.
“My reason that I ran for governor was not the presidential race, my reason I ran for governor is West Virginia and our people in West Virginia”, Justice added.
Editor: I hope that presidential candidate Hillary Clinton does not believe that she has the womens vote simply because she is a woman.
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The League of Conservation Voters isn’t involved in the West Virginia governor’s race, which the nonpartisan Cook Political Report now rates as a toss-up.
