Issue Position: Support Coal Jobs and Keep Money in Eastern Kentucky

Issue Position

In office, I will support legislation that protects coal mining in Kentucky. The war on coal that federal politicians continue to push for will result in serious loss of jobs for our district. Unlike other resources, coal provides many jobs and is a stable source of America-made energy. By shrinking this industry, we would need to increase cost of electricity. Increasing costs of electricity have been proven to disproportionally affect the poor and those on fixed incomes.

Further, we need to keep coal money in our district. While some of our local funds are used for other projects around the state, our communities suffer from inadequate resources. Our small towns have been hurt by devastating flooding and lack of clean water as recently as this year. We need someone in Frankfort to make the state leaders think twice before taking money from our counties.

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