ROMNEY AND THE COAL MINERS

For the last couple of weeks there has been a political commercial running where Mitt Romney is giving a talk and standing behind him are coal miners that look like they support him.  It has become known that those miners were not there voluntarily. The owner of the mine a big Romney backer told his workers to be there.  The owner said it was mandatory for them to be there.   When the owner was asked about that he said yes it was mandatory but they didn't have to go.  The word mandatory means compulsory. I am sure the workers that didn't support Romney would have faced consequences if they hadn't shown up.  Why is it that Romney and his minions can't be honest about anything?