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Coal mining may be the election's wild card in West Virginia.
Byline: Bill Lambrecht
CHARLESTON, W.Va. _ On a mountain road where the villages of Mud and Big Ugly once sat, Therman Caudill has reason to be upset with the coal industry's aggressive ways and the policies of President George W. Bush.
Where Caudill grew up, companies sheared off the tops of the mountains to strip out coal, then buried valleys and streams with mining debris.
Now, Arch Coal Inc. is fighting in court to purchase the Caudill ancestral home and use it for another mountaintop mining dump.
This could be the last spring that Caudill, 77, and his sisters gather on the porch of the 1920 home they inherited to watch the wisteria bloom and the Mud River flow by. The coal industry is beginning to thrive again in West Virginia, thanks in large measure to George Bush's policies.
But Caudill has no plan to vote Democratic in November.
"Somebody's got to stop those terrorists," said Caudill, a retired teacher. "And I don't even know what John Kerry stands for."
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