Santorum in Johnstown, Talks Mine Safety
Many politicians are seeking "face time" when it comes to the recent coal mining tragedies in West Virgina and Mexico. Dispite the lofty platitudes usually dripping from a politician's mouth, one senator actually understands the industry better than most.US Senator Rick Santorum's father was a coal miner.
Santorum visted Johnstown, PA yesterday and got into mine safety.
According to WJAC:
While in Johnstown Saturday, Santorum said mine safety is very important to him, and one major problem is underground communication.
"One of the things that struck me the most was the lack of communication after an accident," he said.
"Usually what happens... the lines of communication are broken because there is a cave-in and all the communication is hard wire, just like above ground... so to date... there's no wireless system that works underground," said the Senator.
Clearly, Santorum isn't pandering for votes and attention. He understands the life of a coal miner--and what the families face each day. In light of the recent mining accidents, Santorum is right to lend his clout behind finding better, safer ways to mine.
Mining is a tough, dangerous job. The workers understand that. The families understand that. Thankfully, a US Senator understands that, too.
Comments on "Santorum in Johnstown, Talks Mine Safety"
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LVDem said ... (2/28/2006 12:15:57 PM) :
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AlexC said ... (3/01/2006 12:04:38 AM) :
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LVDem said ... (3/01/2006 08:25:36 AM) :
post a commentI'm starting to think you should change the name of this from Santorum blog to Casey blog... over the last several days, you have given much more attention to Casey than Santorum. I get the feeling that you are more anti-casey than you are pro-santorum.
LVDem, this is a post about Santorum.
Yes. there have been a number of Casey posts... but he is in the race. That's where the story's at.
Progressives don't care for him. But they're more anti-Rick than anything.
I know this is a post about Santorum, but it was the first in several days.
As far as progressives not liking him, in the last poll, his dem opponent pulled in a whopping 5% and he was polling better amongst D's than Rick was amongst R's. I don't buy that line of reasoning. The hard lefties don't like him, but they don't make up the majority of the party in PA. If either of the fringe D's make the ballot, my guess is that none of them pull in 15% of the vote.