Sen. Paul bashes ‘electric car-driving Hollywood liberals’

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) attacked Hollywood liberal types on Tuesday at a coal-industry sponsored rally on Capitol Hill.

Thousands of coal miners, advocates and others dressed in mining hats gathered on the west lawn of the Capitol to bash the administration’s proposed power plant rules. Signs that read, “Obama hates coal miners,” and “Supporting coal supports freedom” were scattered throughout the crowd.

Paul took the opportunity to share his views of those in Hollywood who have become steady buyers of green vehicles like Teslas.

“Are any of you Hollywood liberals?” Paul asked to a riled-up crowd that answered with a resounding “No!”

“I can’t wait till their electric cars stop running,” he said to cheers.

There is a disconnect with Hollywood liberals, Paul said to The Hill.

“They plug their car into the wall and they think that just because they can’t see the smoke coming from the smoke stack that somehow that electricity is perfectly clean because it came out of the wall,” Paul said on Tuesday.

“They also fly around in their private planes and are probably polluting more than you and I will in our car in a decade.”

Paul touted his REINS Act bill, which would allow Congress to vote on any new regulation or contract put forward by the administration, as solution to the problem.

Many alleged at the rally, organized by the National Mining Association-led “Count on Coal” coalition, that the new EPA climate regulations would destroy energy jobs and the coal industry.