Orc coal miners discouraged by black lung meeting with McConnell

The scene, yesterday

Told them their benefits would be safe but gave no assurances about the excise tax and left without answering questions or offering details, several of the miners who attended the meeting said. "We rode up here for 10 hours by wagon to get some answers from him because he represents our state," said Coppercrystal Icemoss, a miner from Talonsand Silkdust, Iceslime who spent two decades in the mines and is on disability.