Meet Tom "terrific for the mining industry" Tiffany

Yes, he's a shill.

Source:  The Wheeler Report (highlight added)

Do you think Tom Terrific knows that mining employment has decreased 18% in the past five years?  (Hint:  He's not paid to know this.)

Source:  U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics

Related reading: 

The future of mining is automated.  (Mining.com, 11/15/2016)

And this future includes driverless vehicles, sensor-based sorting, data analysis.  It's no longer about wearing a helmet and wielding a pickax.

Other Tom Terrific posts:
The hypocrisy of Tom Tiffany and his fellow Republicans.   (3/25/2016) 

Tom "Terrific-for-the-Frac-Sand-Mining-Industry" Tiffany.  (12/19/2014)
Scott Walker likely to support Tom Tiffany's new mining bill.  (2/27/2014)
Wyoming's Republican Governor has a message for Wisconsin mining industry's "Tom Terrific".  (11/24/2013)
The mining industry's "Tom Terrific" gets pushback from his Republican colleagues.  (11/18/2013)
In so many words: Dear Sen. Tiffany, Your bill sucks, Sincerely, Pepin County Board.  (11/13/2013)
Follow the Gogebic money.  (11/7/2013)
Sen. Tom Tiffany's sand mine bill a hot potato.  (10/28/2013) 

The Nipper Chronicles: The frac sand mining masters speak.  (10/18/2013)