Under fire from Democratic critics who charge he’s mouthed conflicting positions on Israel and voting rights, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s support for regulations on coal and a past comment that it is “very dirty” are fueling a new assault on the 2016 GOP front-runner as he boards Sen. Mitch McConnell’s “Coal Country Bus Tour.”
In his latest offer of help to the embattled McConnell, Paul plans to take the bus tour Wednesday through Greenville and Madisonville, in the western half of the coal-rich state.
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