Alternative for Governor

Taking on Big Coal: West Virginia Mountain Party Candidate Inspires the Nation
by Jeff Biggers of the Huffington Post

Never has West Virginia seemed more like an embarrassing 19th-century throwback to dirty politics and absentee corporation control over the very heart of democratic elections than in the upcoming gubernatorial race.

Campaigning on the frontlines of the mountaintop removal humanitarian crisis, Dr. Bob Henry Baber, former mayor of Richwood, also see his campaign as a national litmus test for traditional Democrats, labor groups, greens and independents to hold Big Coal Democrats accountable for their reckless policies.

In an op-ed for the Charleston Gazette last week, long-time broadcaster Bob Kincaid spelled out the decay of the Democratic Party in the Mountain State: "The West Virginia Democratic Party's inexplicably tone-deaf subservience to an industry actively engaged in poisoning, deforming and killing innocent bystanders ensures and hastens its own irrelevance to a rising generation that knows the only future in the coal industry is a sad path to early graves."

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