{"id":3145,"date":"2007-08-17T09:30:43","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T15:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=3145"},"modified":"2019-10-13T12:46:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T18:46:13","slug":"us-mine-safety-czar-is-another-bush-fox-guarding-the-henhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/us-mine-safety-czar-is-another-bush-fox-guarding-the-henhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"US Mine Safety Czar Is Another Bush Fox Guarding the Henhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\"  href=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/2007-08-15-utahmine.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/2007-08-15-utahmine.thumbnail.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Max Follmer, Huffington Post<\/p>\n<p>The man who will oversee the federal government&#8217;s investigation into the disaster that has trapped six workers in a Utah coal mine for over a week was twice rejected for his current job by senators concerned about his own safety record when he managed mines in the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>President George W. Bush resorted to a <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090118101919\/http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2006\/10\/20061019-8.html\">recess appointment<\/a> in October 2006 to anoint Richard Stickler as the nation&#8217;s mine safety czar after it became clear he could not receive enough support even in a GOP-controlled Senate.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the January 2006 Sago mine disaster in West Virginia, senators from both sides of the aisle expressed concern that Stickler was not the right person to combat climbing death rates in the nation&#8217;s mines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2007\/08\/15\/mine-safety-czar-richard-_n_60581.html\">(Original Article)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Follmer, Huffington Post The man who will oversee the federal government&#8217;s investigation into the disaster that has trapped six workers in a Utah coal mine for over a week was twice rejected for his current job by senators concerned about his own safety record when he managed mines in the private sector. President George&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[122,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bush_era","category-impeachment-evidence"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>US Mine Safety Czar Is Another Bush Fox Guarding the Henhouse &#8226; Impeach for Peace<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Citizen&#039;s impeach strategy. 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