{"id":380376,"date":"2018-10-10T11:57:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T10:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/joe-manchin-the-good-ol-corporate-boy-from-west-virginia\/"},"modified":"2018-10-10T11:57:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T10:57:17","slug":"joe-manchin-the-good-ol-corporate-boy-from-west-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/joe-manchin-the-good-ol-corporate-boy-from-west-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Manchin, the Good Ol\u2019 Corporate Boy From West Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_106079\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-106079\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/10\/1280px-Senator_Manchin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/10\/1280px-Senator_Manchin.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/10\/1280px-Senator_Manchin-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/10\/1280px-Senator_Manchin-768x462.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source United States Senate | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A single Democrat voted in the US Senate with the Republicans to confirm the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat in question, Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, a so-called \u201cmaverick\u201d, replied \u201cI\u2019m just a good old West Virginia boy\u201d when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/10\/05\/im-just-good-old-west-virginia-boy-sen-joe-manchin-becomes-only-democrat-support\">asked<\/a>by reporters if he thought there was a \u201cstill place in the Democratic Party for you after this (his vote to support Kavanaugh)\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Manchin may be from West Virginia, but \u201cgood ol\u2019 boy\u201d purely and simply he certainly is not\u2013\u201crich ol\u2019 boy\u201d would be more accurate.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/joe-manchin-may-be-the-unfortunate-poster-child-of-elizabeth-warrens-anti-corruption-effort\">The Washington Examiner<\/a><\/em>, Manchin has made more than $5 million in in profits since entering the Senate in 2011, most of it from his family business (the coal brokerage firm Enersystems Inc).<\/p>\n<p>Manchin sits on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee which oversees the industry that fills his pockets.\u00a0 He maintains that this is not a conflict of interest because his Enersystems portfolio has been put in a \u201cblind trust\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But you don\u2019t have to be a genius to know that any policy benefitting the coal industry will in all probability enhance what\u2019s in Manchin\u2019s blind trust, which of course can be unwound once the rich ol\u2019 boy leaves office.<\/p>\n<p>Dick Cheney said something similar when he put his Haliburton portfolio in a blind trust, but we know damn well that his administration\u2019s rampage through Iraq was going to be mighty good business for&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/10\/10\/joe-manchin-the-good-ol-corporate-boy-from-west-virginia\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Source United States Senate | CC BY 2.0 A single Democrat voted in the US Senate with the Republicans to confirm the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court. The Democrat in question, Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, a so-called \u201cmaverick\u201d, replied \u201cI\u2019m just a good old West Virginia boy\u201d when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}