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Bernie Sanders won the primaries because he offered promise, offered hope, offered solutions.
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Promise
Solutions
Bernie Sanders
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But my family is connected to coal. There's hardly anybody in West Virginia that doesn't have a connection to the coal industry.
Paula Jean Swearengin /
Coal
Virginia
West Virginia
Hardly
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It doesn't bother me to be called a 'hillbilly' because I lived in the hills. I grew up in the hills and the mountains are my home.
Paula Jean Swearengin /
Bother
Hillbilly
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I was born here in West Virginia, though I spent a little time in North Carolina when my step-dad got laid off from the coal mines.
Paula Jean Swearengin /
Carolina
Coal
Little Time
Mines
North Carolina
Virginia
West Virginia
Time Born I Was Born
Laid
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I plan to primary Joe Manchin in 2018, and I'm asking you to stand with me, and hopefully, hopefully we can build a better tomorrow.
Paula Jean Swearengin /
Better Tomorrow
Joe
Primary
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I've done everything imaginable as a mother and a coal miner's daughter to create a brighter future for our children, and it fell on deaf ears.
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Brighter
Brighter Future
Coal
Deaf
Ears
Imaginable
Miner
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The reason that I decided to get into politics is because I have begged, pleaded, and cried for years for our government to listen to us and they haven't.
Paula Jean Swearengin /
Cried
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The Democratic Party has failed us, because we haven't run the progressive platform we've been promised... That's why people have moved their votes to the Republicans.
Paula Jean Swearengin /
Democratic Party
Promised
Votes
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Joe Manchin has been our secretary of state, he's been our governor and he's been our senator. And through his long terms, we have not seen any type of economic development.
Paula Jean Swearengin /
Economic Development
Secretary
Senator
Governor
Joe
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We tapped into the abandoned mine land fund to pay for pensions, and that money was to clean up the mines, not make up the difference of what the companies stole from workers.
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Abandoned
Fund
Mines
Clean Up
Make Up
Pensions
Stole
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I'm really not a politician: I don't have a political background, though I've been an activist fighting for my community for years. So I had to learn a lot about my government.
Paula Jean Swearengin /
Activist
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I buried my baby brother this year because of the opioid crisis, I've seen my friends and family, strong miners born and bred in these hills out of work, and people crying out for help.
Paula Jean Swearengin /
Buried
Hills
Miners
Family Work People
Bred
Crying
Friends And Family
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I have diverticulitis. Most of my family have stomach issues because of the water we drank when we were little. Lots of people have gastrointestinal issues in Appalachian coal communities.
Paula Jean Swearengin /
Coal
Drank
Stomach
Appalachian
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The question we face today is: What are we going to do when the coal is gone? And make no mistake it's going. No one has given us an answer that doesn't require the sacrifice of our health and our environment.
Paula Jean Swearengin /
Coal
Sacrifice
Make No Mistake
Require
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I was born in Mullens, West Virginia, and lived in a community called Iroquois in Appalachia. We faced heavy pollution. Our water came from the Sweeney Watershed, which meant we essentially drank acid mine drainage.
Paula Jean Swearengin /
Acid
Drainage
Drank
Iroquois
Pollution
Virginia
West Virginia
Essentially
Watershed
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The people I've met through my path in activism, we're trying to bring real people into a leadership role because we are real Americans and know the true pain of having to worry about our children. And there's no force like a mother trying to protect her child.
Paula Jean Swearengin /
Activism
Leadership Role
Real People
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