This man should have been put to death for killing so many for profit!

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Mining Union Blasts ‘Appalling’ New TV Ads By Criminal Coal Baron
Don Blankenship is attempting to “shift the blame for a decade of death, destruction and despair,” said union president Cecil Roberts.
By Chris D’Angelo


WASHINGTON — The nation’s largest mining union is slamming a series of new TV advertisements by former Massey Energy executive Don Blankenship as his latest “appalling” attempt to skirt responsibility for the deaths of 29 West Virginia coal miners in 2010.

United Mine Workers of America International President Cecil E. Roberts said in a statement Monday that he was “disgusted” by the ads, which he called a “desperate, low-life attempt to once again shift the blame for a decade of death, destruction and despair at Massey Energy while Blankenship was CEO.”

The ads, released last week under the label “For the Sake of Coal Miners,” point the finger at the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration for the explosion at Upper Big Branch mine and urge Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) to “tell the truth” about the incident.

Blankenship was convicted of misdemeanor conspiracy for safety violations that led to the Upper Big Branch disaster and served a year in prison. Upon his release in May, he erupted with a series of aggrieved posts on Twitter, lashing out at Manchin and former Labor Department official Joe Main, who headed up the MSHA during the tragedy.

With their political tone, the advertisements seem to further signal Blankenship’s intent to run against Manchin in the 2018 U.S. Senate race.