Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship to run for U.S. Senate

[tenderfoot]

Eyewitness News has learned that former Massey Energy chief executive officer Don Blankenship plans to run for U.S. Senate.
Blankenship filed his federal election official papers Tuesday. He will be running as a Republican.

He is one of the most well-known figures in West Virginia and has continued to push for a full investigation of the Upper Big Branch mine explosion in 2010. Blankenship contends the Mine Safety and Health Administration caused the blast after it reduced the ventilation air flow through the mine.

Blankenship has been a long-time critic of U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.

Manchin, a Democrat, is seeking re-election. In the Republican primary, Blankenship will square of against U.S. Rep. Evan Jenkins and West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey.

In February, Blankenship’s petition for a rehearing of his appeal of his conviction was denied by the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. In January, the court already had ruled that U.S. District Court in Charleston committed no reversible errors and denied Blankenship’s battle to get his conviction overturned.

Blankenship served a one-year sentence at a California prison for conspiring to willfully violate mine safety standards.

http://wchstv.com/news/local/former-massey-energy-ceo-don-blankenship-to-run-for-us-senate

[dalton99a]

1. His motto: "We need to kill more coal miners"

[Botany]

2. And some of the friends and families of the very people he killed w/his dirty Big Branch Mine ....

.... in W.V., will vote for Blankenship because he will fight the EPA and bring back the
coal industry. W.V. is beautiful but the people will vote against their own best interests
time after time.

[dalton99a]

3. There is no doubt.

[n2doc]

4. What's there to fight?

Pruitt is his best buddy.

Of course the rubes won't realize that.

[bullwinkle428]

5. When he clearly sees a child molester about to be elected to the Senate,

he has to figure, "How hard would it be for a garden-variety convicted felon to get in there as well?"

[dalton99a]

6. Bingo.

[BoneyardDem]

8. wow...so true

[TexasTowelie]

9. Blankenship was convicted on misdemeanor charges only.

He was acquitted of all felony charges--just setting the record straight.

[oasis]

7. Killer DB. nt

[CanonRay]

10. Is he in the Pro Corruption ticket?

[Brother Buzz]

11. Forget it, Jake. It's West Virginia.

And people say, "What's the matter with Kansas?"

[Gothmog]

12. Blankenship is an asshole who killed his workers