Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, just out of prison, to run for Senate seat in W. Va. - Entrepreneur Generations

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Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship is running as a Republican for a U.S. Senate seat in West Virginia, Kennie Bass and Jeff Morris report for WCHS TV. He was released from prison in May after a year-long sentence for his role in the Upper Big Branch mine explosion in 2010 that killed 29 men.

Blankenship maintains his innocence and has appealed, unsuccessfully, to have his conviction overturned. While in prison, he wrote a 67-page booklet in which he said he was an "American political prisoner" and distributed 250,000 copies. On his blog and in the booklet, he blamed the U.S. Mine Safety & Health Administration for the blast.

His longtime foe Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin is running for re-election, but Blankenship will first have to face U.S. Rep. Evan Jenkins and West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey in the Republican primary.

from The Rural Blog http://ift.tt/2jykMGM Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, just out of prison, to run for Senate seat in W. Va. - Entrepreneur Generations

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