{"id":1955,"date":"2010-06-14T15:50:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T19:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2010-06-14T15:50:23","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T19:50:23","slug":"rand-paul-doesnt-think-well-miss-a-couple-of-little-mountaintops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2010\/06\/14\/rand-paul-doesnt-think-well-miss-a-couple-of-little-mountaintops\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul doesn&#8217;t think we&#8217;ll miss a couple of little mountaintops&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 475px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/mudriver.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/mudriver.jpg\" alt=\"Rand Paul believes people can do what they want with their mountains. (satellite image of a mountaintop removal site in Mud River, West Virginia from thinkprogress.org)\" width=\"475\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rand Paul believes people can do what they want with their mountains. (satellite image of a mountaintop removal site in Mud River, West Virginia from thinkprogress.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Words from Mr Paul on Kentucky coal mining:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think whoever owns the property can do with the property as they wish, and if the coal company buys it from a private property owner and they want to do it, fine. The other thing I think is that I think coal gets a bad name, because I think a lot of the land apparently is quite desirable once it&#8217;s been flattened out. As I came over here from Harlan, you&#8217;ve got quite a few hills. <strong>I don\u2019t think anybody&#8217;s going to be missing a hill or two here and there.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And some people like having the flat land. Some of it apparently has become quite valuable when it&#8217;s become flattened. And I think they do a good job at reclaiming the land, and you know, adding back in topsoil, bringing in help. So the bottom line is, it&#8217;s not just me pandering to coal. It&#8217;s me believing in private property.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Video interview here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/david-neiwert\/rand-paul-mountaintop-removal-i-don\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/david-neiwert\/rand-paul-mountaintop-removal-i-don<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words from Mr Paul on Kentucky coal mining: I think whoever owns the property can do with the property as they wish, and if the coal company buys it from a private property owner and they want to do it, fine. The other thing I think is that I think coal gets a bad name, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2010\/06\/14\/rand-paul-doesnt-think-well-miss-a-couple-of-little-mountaintops\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rand Paul doesn&#8217;t think we&#8217;ll miss a couple of little mountaintops&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1958,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions\/1958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}