Federal Inmate Keith Judd Receiving Sizable Percent of Vote in West Virginia Democratic Primary
May 9th, 2012Via: ABC News:
Barack Obama was not the only Democrat on the ballot on Tuesday in West Virginia’s Democratic Presidential Primary. Keith Judd — also known as Inmate No. 11593-051 at the Federal Correctional Institution in Texarkana, Texas — was running against him.
Judd, who is serving out a 17.5 year sentence for extortion, currently has received 40 percent of the vote, with 83 percent of precincts reporting, according to The Associated Press. Obama currently has received 60 percent of the vote.
This story was also on NPR today. Lots of West Virgian’s rightly so IMHO angry about losing their coal mining jobs -to what the energy policy of the DOE and EPA which is definitely against coal. Hey I don’t think coal is a “clean” energy source, but compare coal to nuclear, hands down, I’d take coal anyday over nuclear but with several caveats attached.
For one, the U.S. taxpayer has spent billions on the DOE investments in clean coal technologies. Why not require coal miners and electricity producers to use them? What is the effing problem with that?
Far better to use coal than nuclear. DOE has been charging nuclear power plants a fee for over 20 years now (that gets passed onto consumers)in a pact that said “we will provide you with storage for your spent nuclear fuel rods.” Well guess what? Harry Reid gets the Yucca Mountain Site shut down on a technicality and now all of that sh*t sits around every nuclear power plant in the U.S. Smells to me like another Fukashima waiting to happen.
I don’t know where France sends their spent fuel rods, but rumor has it that all of the pirates in Africa were trying to stop ships from dumping their spent fuel rods there.
I really like Secretary Chu but I wish he’d get some people working with him to do a REAL cost benefit analyses on coal versus nuclear before he and Obama go off of the deep end nixing coal.
Personally? These days I think it is better to think and act like an Amish person and do all one can do NOT to use electricity.
I admire that mentality, but I’ll really miss the glowing screens that surround me if it ever comes to pass that we don’t have the power.