We hear that Mine Workers is furious with Jim Gooch. According to sources, Gooch let a bill out of his committee that would require lesser health and safety measures in mines.

Digging around to for the text of the bill, here’s what we found:

HB 119 (BR 306) – K. Hall, T. Edmonds, A. Smith

AN ACT relating to mine safety.

Amend KRS 351.127 to require not more than one emergency medical technician or mine emergency technician at mines with less than eighteen employees; require two emergency medical technicians or mine emergency technicians for mines with eighteen or more employees; and for all underground mines, require an emergency medical technician or mine emergency technical to be underground when miners are working at the mine.

Greg Stumbo should be ashamed for allowing this idiot to chair Natural Resources & Environment.

UPDATE: Here’s a bit more on the Jim Gooch mining debacle.