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Riley Moore: “Our UMWA guys and everybody else started losing their jobs.”

Featuring: Riley Moore, Republican | U.S. House West Virginia, District 2

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Can A Republican Be Pro-Union? Congressman Riley Moore | Better Bad Ideas | Ep. 66

Published | Video Starts at 31:24

So now our beautiful downtowns that we had got hollowed out, replaced with super Walmarts. And because then we also had the pressures, fortunately from the left as it related to coal mining. Our UMWA guys and everybody else started losing their jobs. And then the left is the environmentalist. Yeah, the environmentalists. And so then they started taking jobs at Walmart super center. Because all the stores in our downtown, what are they paying? (31:24–31:29)

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Asserts that United Mine Workers of America members in West Virginia lost their jobs.

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