'BradCast' 4/7/2016 (Bob Kincaid from WV on Don Blankenship sentencing for deaths of 29 miners, Coal Country politics and the mythical 'War on Coal')
b"First up today: a former WI State Senate official says he left the Republican Party when, during a caucus meeting discussing the state's Photo ID voting restriction, GOP lawmakers were 'giddy' about how the law would disenfranchise Democratic voters. Then, WV anti-coal activist and radio host Bob Kincaid joins us to discuss the one-year prison sentence just given to former Massey Energy CEO and 'Dark Lord of Coal' Don Blankenship for his part in the conspiracy to violate safety standards which led to the deaths of 29 miners in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in 2010. Kincaid explains the once-powerful coal baron's rise to power, why Blankenship got off so lightly in both federal and state court, why coal remains king among both Dems and Republicans in WV, and how Obama's mythical 'War on Coal' shows no signs of ending toxic coal mining and mountaintop removal in the state."