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Foreign Invaders crisis cost $150B in 2023, forcing some areas to cut police and fire services: report Israel kills head of Hezbollah Intelligence. Status: Not Logged In; Sign In Alternative Energies See other Alternative Energies Articles Title: Mitch McConnell's wife resigns over coal issues Source: WKYT URL Source: http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/ ... ver-coal-issues-289412781.html Published: Jan 22, 2015 Author: Associated Press Post Date: 2015-01-22 09:52:26 by Willie Green Keywords: None Views: 4687 Comments: 13 FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's wife has resigned from Bloomberg Philanthropies' board of directors after the charity announced plans to expand its efforts to shutter coal-fired power plants. Elaine Chao joined the board one year after it announced a $50 million, four-year commitment to the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal initiative. Alison Lundergan Grimes made Chao's membership on the board an issue during her failed bid to unseat McConnell last year. At the time, McConnell defended his wife's position on the board and said she would not resign. But a McConnell spokesman said Wednesday Chao decided to resign after learning the charity planned to expand its Beyond Coal commitment, saying her service on the board was incompatible with her commitments to Kentucky. About 90 percent of Kentucky's electricity comes from coal-fired power plants. Post Comment   Private Reply   Ignore Thread   Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 11. #1. To: Willie Green (#0) " Mitch McConnell's wife has resigned from Bloomberg Philanthropies' board of directors after the charity announced plans to expand its efforts to shutter coal-fired power plants " OK. But one has to wonder why now?, since "Elaine Chao joined the board one year after it announced a $50 million, four-year commitment to the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal initiative." Stoner  posted on  2015-01-22   10:13:28 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #2. To: Stoner (#1) OK. But one has to wonder why now? The election is over. Ditch Mitch won with his normal tactics. Fred Mertz  posted on  2015-01-22   10:15:28 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #4. To: Fred Mertz (#2) " The election is over. Ditch Mitch won with his normal tactics. " I still do not understand why she has resigned. Staying I don't think helped his reelection, and true he did get reelected. Since the election is over, I do not see what is her incentive to resign now? Did someone pay her a big bonus to resign? Help me out here Fred. Stoner  posted on  2015-01-22   10:35:53 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #5. To: Stoner (#4) I was going to cut and paste excerpts, but you can read more here: www.kentucky.com/2015/01/...-from-bloomberg.html?rh=1 The foundation is committing $48 million over the next 3 years to anti-coal causes. 90 percent of Kentucky's electricity is produced by coal. She is wife to Ditch Mitch who wants to be senator for life. She loses $600,000 annual compensation as a member of the board/foundation. I'll gladly replace her. Fred Mertz  posted on  2015-01-22   10:50:45 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #11. To: Fred Mertz, Stoner (#5) She loses $600,000 annual compensation as a member of the board/foundation. I'll gladly replace her. FWIW! That's chump change to billionaires, but if her loss were a few million, she might say ouch. jmho By Chris Moody August 13, 2014 5:47 PM Yahoo News EXCERPT Bissett was responding to a letter he received Tuesday from Democratic officials who represent districts that rely on the coal industry urging him to call for Chao’s resignation. “As Kentuckians with long histories of championing a strong, vibrant coal industry in the Commonwealth, who work with the Kentucky Coal Association, we call on you personally and on the Kentucky Coal Association directors to denounce the Bloomberg board’s disgraceful action and call on the McConnells to return the money they have pocketed from this and any other anti-Kentucky coal organizations,” the letter read. “We also urge you to join us in demanding that Ms. Chao resign immediately from the Bloomberg board.” href="http://news.yahoo.com/top-kentucky-coal-advocate-bends- over-backward-to-defend-mcconnell-family-s-connection-to-anti-coal-group- 214715533.html August 13, 2014 excerpt Bissett was responding to a letter he received Tuesday from Democratic officials who represent districts that rely on the coal industry urging him to call for Chao’s resignation. the letter here- http://news.yahoo.com/kentucky-democrats-urge-kentucky-coal- association-to-demand-mitch-mcconnell-s-wife-resign-from-group-funding--war-on- coal--183317496.html “As Kentuckians with long histories of championing a strong, vibrant coal industry in the Commonwealth, who work with the Kentucky Coal Association, we call on you personally and on the Kentucky Coal Association directors to denounce the Bloomberg board’s disgraceful action and call on the McConnells to return the money they have pocketed from this and any other anti-Kentucky coal organizations,” the letter read. “We also urge you to join us in demanding that Ms. Chao resign immediately from the Bloomberg board.” Murron  posted on  2015-01-22   15:25:15 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   Replies to Comment # 11. #12. To: Fred Mertz, Stoner, All (#11) Bissett was responding to a letter he received Tuesday from Democratic officials who represent districts that rely on the coal industry urging him to call for Chao’s resignation. THE LETTER: Read the full letter below: Mr. Bill Bissett, President Kentucky Coal Association 2800 Palumbo Drive, Suite 200 Lexington, KY 40509 Dear Mr. Bissett: With shock and alarm, we read the report last week by Chris Moody of Yahoo! News regarding the service of Elaine Chao, a former Labor Secretary and a prominent Kentuckian, on the board of directors of the Bloomberg Philanthropies foundation. As you know, Bloomberg Philanthropies has committed $50 million over four years in support of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign to retire one-third of the nation’s coal-fired power plants by 2020 and targeted at least 16 Kentucky coal plants. The Bloomberg foundation’s website acknowledges in plain English its objective of “ending the coal era.” It further states, “With the Beyond Coal campaign, we’re helping to end our nation’s reliance on dirty coal, plant-by- plant, community-by-community, and state-by-state.” We were even further horrified to learn that Senator McConnell’s campaign confessed that Ms. Chao knowingly joined the board while the anti-Kentucky coal campaign was in full swing. We are certain that you and the Kentucky Coal Association membership share our dismay. As Kentuckians with long histories of championing a strong, vibrant coal industry in the Commonwealth, who work with the Kentucky Coal Association, we call on you personally and on the Kentucky Coal Association directors to denounce the Bloomberg board’s disgraceful action and call on the McConnells to return the money they have pocketed from this and any other anti-Kentucky coal organizations. We also urge you to join us in demanding that Ms. Chao resign immediately from the Bloomberg board. The Bloomberg/Sierra Club venture is a despicable assault on a proud industry that provides employment directly and indirectly for many thousands of our people and affordable electric power for us all. It is intolerable that Ms. Chao sits on a board that takes actions so hurtful to Kentucky. We urge you to act swiftly and decisively. Sincerely, Speaker Greg Stumbo Majority Leader Rocky Adkins Senator Johnny Ray Turner Representative Leslie Combs Representative John Short Representative John Will Stacy Representative Brent Yonts Magistrate Chris Harris ******************************** Democrats urge Kentucky Coal Association to demand McConnell’s wife resign from group funding ‘war on coal’ Elaine Chao sits on board of Bloomberg Philanthropies, which is spending $50 million targeting the coal industry By Chris Moody, August 12, 2014 2:31 PM Yahoo News http://news.yahoo.com/kentucky-democrats-urge-kentucky-coal- association-to-demand-mitch-mcconnell-s-wife-resign-from-group-funding--war-on- coal--183317496.html Democrats urge Kentucky Coal Association to demand McConnell’s wife resign from group funding ‘war on coal’ Elaine Chao sits on board of Bloomberg Philanthropies, which is spending $50 million targeting the coal industry Eight Kentucky state lawmakers sent a letter to the president of the state’s coal industry trade association demanding that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s wife break ties with Bloomberg Philanthropies after a Yahoo News report detailed her association with the group, which is spending $50 million on an ongoing campaign to kill the coal industry. Yahoo News reported on Friday that in 2012 McConnell’s wife, former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, joined the board of directors of Bloomberg Philanthropies, which had announced a four-year, $50 million funding commitment to the Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal” initiative a year earlier. The Sierra Club campaign’s stated goal is to "end our nation’s reliance on dirty coal, plant-by- plant, community-by-community, and state-by-state.” While Chao was not involved in the decision to fund the Sierra Club effort, her affiliation with Bloomberg Philanthropies led opponents of her husband to question why she would join an organization actively working against an industry whose health is so crucial to the state he represents. McConnell, a Republican, is currently in a tight race for re-election against Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, a Democrat. Both campaigns have aimed to highlight their support for the coal industry. McConnell, one of the staunchest defenders of coal in the Senate, has tried to tie Grimes with President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency’s ongoing lawsuits targeting coal plants. The August 12 letter, signed only by Democrats, urged Kentucky Coal Association President Bill Bissett to join the clamor for Chao’s resignation from Bloomberg Philanthropies. “[W]e call on you personally and on the Kentucky Coal Association directors to denounce the Bloomberg board’s disgraceful action and call on the McConnells to return the money they have pocketed from this and any other anti-Kentucky coal organizations,” the letter reads. “We also urge you to join us in demanding that Ms. Chao resign immediately from the Bloomberg board.” The letter's signatories included Kentucky House Speaker Greg Stumbo and Majority Leader Rocky Adkins. In response to Yahoo News’ story last week, Bissett defended McConnell, saying he had full confidence in the lawmaker’s support for the industry. "I believe it is important to recognize that Bloomberg's contribution was made well before Secretary Elaine Chao began her service as a board member of Bloomberg Philanthropies in April 2012," Bissett told the Associated Press in a statement. In 2012, the Kentucky Coal Association published a report about the Sierra Club’s initiative entitled, “Know The Enemy,” which detailed Bloomberg Philanthropies’ role in aiding the anti-coal initiative. Republicans regularly accuse their opponents of partaking in a “war on coal” by seeking to link them to Obama’s clean-air efforts — but Democrats in coal-heavy states often place themselves squarely on the same side of the industry as Republicans. Last week, both McConnell and Grimes toured Kentucky coal country as part of an effort to shore up support from industry workers and communities that benefit from the industry. West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie Tennant, a Democrat, has campaigned against the White House on coal issues this year as she seeks to win the open U.S. senate seat in the state. And in 2012, Obama himself took on Republican challenger Mitt Romney over who was more pro- coal in Ohio's coal-mining Southeast. Murron  posted on  2015-01-22 15:47:30 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   End Trace Mode for Comment # 11. Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest

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