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Tea Party Congress isn't extreme enough for Club for Growth (Allen West, David McKinley, Lou Barletta) - 05/17/12
... transgressor was David McKinley of West Virginia: he only sided with the Club's position 37% of the time. He failed to "Cut energy subsidies", "Strike funding for NLRB", "Cut Amtrak grants", "Cut most continuing appropriations spending 5.5%", "Roll back most spending in the bill to 2006 levels", "Limit Davis Bacon", support free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea, and...
Massey Energy "profoundly reckless" in mine disaster; Tea Party as useful idiots; Soros, U.S. Chamber - 05/22/11
... the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia claimed 40 lives. An independent investigation initiated by that state has found that the mine's operator - Massey Energy - was to blame for the tragedy and was "profoundly reckless" [1] [2].
There are also major political components to the tragedy:
1. Massey - led by their former CEO Don Blankenship - played a major role in West Virginia politics [3]....
Hundreds arrested at Pilgrim's Pride plants (immigration raids, identity theft) - 04/16/08
... Tennessee, Arkansas, Florida, and West Virginia (link). The company participated in the E-Verify program and cooperated with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The arrests were for identity theft and document fraud in addition to being illegal aliens and/or criminal aliens.
There were also smaller, unconnected raids at Shipley Donuts in Houston (a local chain, report link) and at a...
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