Opinion | Infrastructure: Manchin's Significant Coal Profits Not of Interest to Corporate News

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Russonello wrote that West Virginia's deep red politics, "as well as his history as an ally of the coal industry and other business interests, help to explain why Mr. Manchin has insisted on bipartisanship.
51% : Since he took office in 2010, he's made more than $4.5 million off coal.
49% : As Sludge's David Moore (7/1/21) pointed out, Manchin in 1998 founded a coal brokerage firm, Enersystems, that sells coal to local power plants.
45% : By referring only to worth, not earnings, the parenthetical suggests that while Manchin and his wife built a fortune through coal, he no longer profits directly from it.
40% : With Manchin's massive financial stake in the coal industry neatly obfuscated, why would anyone doubt such pronouncements?
34% : Damningly, Russonello's piece links to that 2011 article, which detailed Manchin's ongoing "lucrative ties" to coal.

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