Patty Murray made a deal with Mitch McConnell to to renew the Import Export bank to aid the export of the coal from the Powder River Basin mines to Asia. There has been a huge battle over the terminal in WA, particularly, Whatcom County with the Republicans are supporting the project against the environmental,left and local property owners.
What is odd is the coalition of the Republicans and the far left union groups and the tactics that they use against the opposition. The unions had originally promised to back Republican candidates for election, but that didn’t happen. I did a good job of pointing out the fact that local Republicans had appeared on stage with these radical union reps from the coal terminal project. The Unions finally admitted that they weren’t going to vote Republican but that they would help Republicans fight local environmental groups on issues of water regulation and farming.
The Unions started a big email campaign on social media in favor of the local farmers but against property owners near the proposed terminal,and this is the interesting part, every single communication from this Union group was accompanied by the socialist fist, colored green. So we saw Republican posts and letters marked with a socialist fist.