We had a way out and we blew it off. The sub-bituminous coal terminals are crony capitalist projects being pushed straight from the White House, with the support of almost every Democrat in the State, and the Republicans supported the Democrat crony capitalism because they don’t know the difference between bituminous coal and sub-bituminous coal and thought that they were thwarting Obama’s war on coal.
Jay Inslee was trailing Rob McKenna until he made a statement that he would demand a full an environmental evaluation of the projects. His poll numbers rose 9 points in one day. Cantwell was tied tightly to the coal SSA’s coal terminal, having secured approval for SSA to operate the receiving coal terminal in China. Rick Larsen is bought and paid for by the unions and also supported the coal terminals, as did almost every single other Democrat in the State. None of them could have won re-election if the Republicans had the guts to hold them responsible for the cronyism that defines the projects. Patty Murray’s husband was a lifetime employee of SSA and she has included the funding for the terminals in the Senate budget.
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