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Petrushka

(3,709 posts)
Tue May 3, 2016, 11:45 PM May 2016

Hillary Clinton Denounces Unusual Protester: Donald Blankenship, Convicted Mine Executive

Please note that, although the Ohio primary election took place in March, Hillary is already campaigning for the general election in Ohio. In ABC channel TV-6 news this evening, it was reported that Hillary said she wasn't going to be using campaign funds to run against Sanders in upcoming primaries; and, instead, will be using those funds to concentrate on winning against rump in November.

Meanwhile, from The New York Times:

Hillary Clinton Denounces Unusual Protester: Donald Blankenship, Convicted Mine Executive

ATHENS, Ohio — Hillary Clinton typically ignores protesters who confront her on the campaign trail, but she fired back at one high-profile rabble-rouser who had stood outside her West Virginia event on Monday.

“I heard Mr. Blankenship was outside my event yesterday protesting me,” Mrs. Clinton said on Tuesday, referring to Donald L. Blankenship, the former chairman and chief executive of the Massey Energy Company. Mr. Blankenship, one of the wealthiest men in Appalachia, was sentenced in April to a year in prison for conspiring to violate federal mine safety standards after an explosion killed 29 men in 2010.

Mr. Blankenship, who is set begin his sentence within months, had stood in solidarity on Monday with the anti-Clinton protesters in Williamson, W.Va., many of whom appeared to be coal workers and held signs supporting the Republican front-runner, Donald J. Trump. They chanted “Go home, Hillary!” and “Bring back our jobs!” as the former of secretary of state walked into a health and wellness center in Williamson, in Mingo County, an area of West Virginia particularly hard hit by the downturn in coal jobs.

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http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/05/03/hillary-clinton-denounces-unusual-protester-donald-blankenship-convicted-mine-executive/


FWIW: The mine where that explosion killed those 29 men is located in Logan County, WV . . . the same county where Hillary was told she'd be unwelcome a few days ago.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141433481

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Hillary Clinton Denounces Unusual Protester: Donald Blankenship, Convicted Mine Executive (Original Post) Petrushka May 2016 OP
That guy's got a lot of nerve. Ash_F May 2016 #1
Hillary also has a lot of nerve . . . Petrushka May 2016 #4
How do you say I will put a lot of coal miners and companies out of business doc03 May 2016 #2
She does an awful lot of misspeaking, doesn't she?! And, about Blankenship? Petrushka May 2016 #5
More . . . from the Columbus Dispatch: In Athens, Hillary Clinton says 'I will fight for you' Petrushka May 2016 #3

Petrushka

(3,709 posts)
4. Hillary also has a lot of nerve . . .
Wed May 4, 2016, 02:47 AM
May 2016

. . . trying to exploit the deaths of 29 miners killed in a Logan County mine run by Blankenship in hopes of winning converts in southeastern Ohio's coal country and after being told, in a letter from a Logan public official, that she wasn't welcome in Logan. Link below:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141433481

doc03

(35,148 posts)
2. How do you say I will put a lot of coal miners and companies out of business
Tue May 3, 2016, 11:54 PM
May 2016

then say you misspoke? Oh and Blankenship should get life.

Petrushka

(3,709 posts)
3. More . . . from the Columbus Dispatch: In Athens, Hillary Clinton says 'I will fight for you'
Wed May 4, 2016, 12:09 AM
May 2016
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/05/03/hillary-in-athens.html#


Note: In the last paragraph of that news report, Bob Murray is mentioned; while elsewhere, coincidentally, Murray announced he was shutting down a mine in Belmont County OH.

http://www.theintelligencer.net/page/content.detail/id/659777.html
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