Now THIS is Gonna Be Good

That Woman is going to be going through West Virginia on a bus tour. You might be thinking this will be her pulpit but stay with me here, I speak as someone whose mother grew up there, whose grandparents lived there and I still have cousins who live in Tucker County.

West Virginians aren't stupid or all married to their parents and/or siblings. West Virginians are actually at the crossroads of the energy issue right now because natural gas companies are looking to tap the coal beds that stretch from north to south and that might well have something in them, something that could help solve our dependence on foreign energy sources. One might think they would be rushing to lease out their land especially when companies come calling with seemingly irresistible contracts and offers to lease. Not so fast; there are at least two citizens coalitions that have formed to help landowners decide how to proceed, this one and one more that does not have a website yet (the one my kin belong to) but the last meeting was so packed they had to move it to a larger location.

If this isn't enough, wind power has arrived in West Virginia, yes turbines, these are about 20 minutes away from my grandparents' town.

My point? West Virginians aren't stupid, they also know a thing or two about energy being affected by coal plants shutting down and giving the go-ahead to turbine farms. They have consistently voted Democratic over the years.

They might run That Woman out of the state on a rail. You heard it here first.