b4 won't read past the first sentence.
But his hero is very much in hewhoshitsinpants league in utter self enrichment first mentality.
As well as a certified criminal.
Manchin has a long history of using his political muscle to boost the company, and the coal industry in general. In 1994, he was state chair of ALEC and a national director of the Koch-backed pro-fossil-fuel group that has been one of the central forces spreading climate disinformation. As governor, Manchin recast the state's Department of Environmental Protection from enforcement toward what he called "compliance assistance," which accelerated the growth of mountaintop-removal mining and loosened safety regulations in underground mines. Just in case Manchin's pro-coal views weren't clear enough, during a 2010 Senate campaign ad, he literally aimed a rifle at President Obama's cap-and-trade legislation and shot a bullet through it.
As governor, Manchin had control over appointments to the all-powerful West Virginia Public Service Commission (PSC), which in turn gave him influence over the committee's decisions to set utility rates and approve contracts. According to reporting first published by The Intercept, in 2006, Manchin, according to an unnamed source, instructed his then-chief of staff, Larry Puccio, to meet with Mon Power lobbyists so that they would petition the PSC to increase the Grant Town plant's rate from $27.25 to $34.25 per megawatt hour, pocketing an additional $4.5 million per year from customers. Not surprisingly, the PSC agreed. It even agreed to extend the contract from 2028 until 2036. According to one study by a consumer-rights group, Mon Power customers have seen their rates increase by 30 percent since 2008.
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