The two “cap & trade” rallies on Saturday were well attended and quite successful. The Charleston Town Hall Meeting filled the auditorium at the State’s Culture Center as the crowd heard compelling comments from West Virginia’s 2nd District Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito, former Mountaineer Football Coach Don Nehlen and Farm Bureau President Charles Wilfong. Immediately following the Town Hall Meeting, an even larger crowd was reported for the rally on the steps of the State Capitol.
The Beckley “Save Coal Rally”, sponsored by the Southern West Virginians for Coal and the West Virginia Conservative Foundation had several hundred participants at the entrance to the YMCA Paul Cline Memorial Soccer Complex, where the Friends of Coal Auto Fair was going on.