Last month, Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va) was getting a lot of press surrounding his possible third-party 2024 presidential run as a No Labels candidate. Fortunately, Mother Jones.com posted a piece about who and what is really behind this No Labels ‘movement’.
No Labels Exposed: Here’s a List of Donors Funding Its Effort To Disrupt the 2024 Race
The roster includes corporate execs who have financed Republican and Democratic candidates.
And two weeks ago, The Sierra Club released a statement blasting Manchin for “his efforts to lift up corporate polluters, block clean air and safe drinking water”.
“We’ve long known that Senator Joe Manchin is the coal baron’s favorite coal baron, but his efforts to lift up corporate polluters, block clean air, safe drinking water, and the clean energy industry go so much further,” said Sierra Club Executive Director Ben Jealous. “The Inflation Reduction Act – a bill he had a heavy hand in – is doing what it intended; making major investments in clean energy, creating jobs, and addressing inflation in America. Yet, Manchin spends his time trashing the bill and exploring avenues to repeal critical provisions that would save consumers money. He’s sought to undermine or weaken practically every attempt to safeguard clean air and water from coal, oil and gas pollution. And even after he tried to legislate the Mountain Valley Pipeline into existence, Manchin continues his efforts to further chip away at bedrock environmental laws. The fossil fuel industry and their never ending profit margin, do not need yet another advocate. The American people, facing deadly heat, floods, and air quality do. Senator Manchin needs to prove he is more than just a coal baron.”
Over the past few years, Manchin has made a number of headlines for these deadly actions.
Below is a snippet of them.
- The Guardian: ‘It’s a deal with the devil’: outrage in Appalachia over Manchin’s ‘vile’ pipeline plan;
- New York Times: Manchin’s Donors Include Pipeline Giants That Win in His Climate Deal
Senator Manchin engineered a plot to add damaging provisions to the must-pass debt ceiling deal that weakened NEPA and fast-tracked approval for the Mountain Valley Pipeline. He continues to push so-called “permitting reform” that would gut NEPA, the Clean Water Act, and other critical environmental protections. So far this year, the industry has donated $331,000 to Manchin – up from $20,000 in 2020, according to federal campaign finance disclosures tracked by Open Secrets.
Senator Manchin fought electric vehicle incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act incessantly, including the union provision; he was ultimately responsible for shrinking the incentive by cutting the extra incentive for union-made cars.
- New York Times: How Manchin Aided Coal, and Earned Millions
As a state senator, Manchin went into business with the local power plant, supplying them an inefficient low-grade coal (literally called gob) and arranged to profit off his constituents by getting money from the plant’s revenue/his constituents’ electricity bills. This business continues to this day, to the benefit of his financial interest.
- Sierra Magazine: West Virginians Are Disappointed in Joe Manchin; Coal Miners Weren’t Happy When Joe Manchin Derailed Build Back Better
His refusal to support Build Back Better, which was popular in West Virginia, turned his own constituents against him, as well as coal miners themselves.
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Now, let’s go back even further in an effort to better know the Coal Baron’s Coal Baron… .
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Horrible Human, A History
Posted here 2022-05-11
This Truly Horrible Human Being Is Still At It – Helping To Destroy What’s Left of American Democracy
Right-wing Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia confirmed that he is opposed to the Women’s Health Protection Act just hours before a planned Wednesday vote on the legislation, spoiling his party’s attempt to codify abortion rights into federal law before the U.S. Supreme Court’s right-wing majority has a chance to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Manchin previously helped kill the House-passed bill—which would enshrine patients’ right to receive legal and safe abortions and healthcare professionals’ right to provide them—in February, joining all Senate Republicans present to block the measure before it even reached the floor.
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Lowest of the Low
Posted here 2022.04.13
How Joe Manchin killed Biden’s child tax credit
Under [President Joe] Biden, Democrats conducted the most effective attack on child poverty in American history. Manchin all but single-handedly destroyed those efforts when he killed the Build Back Better plan.
The loss of Biden’s expansion of the child tax credit resulted in an increase in child poverty by something like 41 percent. When the expanded tax credit was implemented, child poverty fell to just 12 percent – the lowest figure in American history
Manchin reportedly hated this particular part of the Biden child tax credit, telling colleagues that recipients would spend the money on drugs instead of child care.
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So, Joe. How Ya Feelin’
Posted here 2021.10.21
Manchin Didn’t Get Even One Republican For His Compromise ‘Bipartisan’ Voting Bill
No, really, Joe, how are you feeling today? Maybe a little embarrassed? Or, maybe a little exposed – ya know, for once again shown to be the huckster* and blowhard* and hypocrite* that you are.
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Another DINO Manchin Self-Own
Posted here 2021.10.19
But, He Is Making A Lot Of Money Off Them
When asked by a CNN reporter to respond to Senator Bernie Sanders accusing him of holding up the Biden agenda, Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia said:
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The Real Joe Manchin: Shafting American Workers
Posted here 2021.12.14
It’s No Mystery: Joe Manchin Represents the Monied Interests, Himself and Nobody Else
Joe Manchin illustrates that the real division in American politics is no longer left versus right, conservative versus liberal, even Democrat versus Republican. The real division is democracy versus the moneyed interests.
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Joe Manchin Once Again Tells Us Who He Is. It’s Really Time To Believe Him
Posted here 2021.12.19
POS DINO Manchin – The Senator Who Doesn’t Give A Fuck About Anyone But Himself, And His Corporate Sponsors
After months of negotiations, after months of promising he was negotiating in good faith, coal multi-millionaire Senator Joe Manchin now says he will vote NO on the Build Back Better Act. The Corporate-Democrat of West Virginia made the announcement Sunday on Fox News.
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All You Need To Know About Phony Joe And His ‘NO’
Posted here 2021.12.21
Corporate donations to Sen. Joe Manchin’s PAC surged as he fought President Biden’s agenda
West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin’s political action committee saw a surge in corporate contributions this fall, ahead of his decision to oppose – and apparently kill – President Joe Biden’s $1.75 trillion social safety net and climate-change bill.
Manchin’s leadership PAC, Country Roads, received 17 contributions from corporations in October and 19 last month, according to a CNBC analysis of Federal Election Commission filings. None of the four months prior to October saw as many corporate contributions.
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