Fresh outta his club med prison, former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship is looking for help to run against Sen Manchin in 2018, problem being does WVa want him and does he even live in the state – PB/TK
Disgraced Coal Baron Don Blankenship, Fresh Out of Prison, Is Mulling a Senate Bid – By Tim Murphy / July 14 2017
Fresh off a one-year stint in federal prison, disgraced former coal baron Don Blankenship just might run for Senate. The former Massey Energy CEO and conservative mega-donor was convicted last year of conspiring to commit mine safety violations in the run-up to the deadly 2010 explosion at West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch mine, which killed 29 people.
In an interview with a West Virginia radio show on Wednesday, Blankenship said running as a Republican against Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, who is up for reelection next year, was a “possibility.”
“If I could get some momentum, some help, I might have a chance at winning a Republican primary, particularly,” he said. “I assume Joe Manchin would love to see me get in the race because he would probably think I would be more easily beatable than the others.”
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