#changethecurrent “This race is about coal,” Jenkins said. The three Republicans did not discuss any other issues. “Over the last six years, we’ve lost 5,000 coal miners in West Virginia and countless other employees because of the war on coal,” said Jenkins, clad in a Friends of Coal sweater vest. “The impact is devastating.” Coal production in Central Appalachia has been on a steady decline since the mid-1990s and mining jobs in the region have generally declined since at least the early 1980s, the result of mechanization and, more recently, the abundance of inexpensive natural gas. Asked about the job losses that occurred under previous administrations, Boehner repeated himself. “The president himself declared that it’s a war on coal. I don’t make this stuff up; he said it,” Boehner said. Strictly speaking, the president has never publicly said that. In September, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said, “The president’s own advisers have said there’s a war on coal.” Politifact rated that claim “mostly false.” - See more at: wvgazette/article/20141029/GZ01/141029045/1419#sthash.3kT9pqPf.ayzns8Fe.dpuf
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