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Blankenship Sponsors Nauseating, Error-ridden Commercial
Blankenship Sponsors Nauseating, Error-ridden Commercial
September 6, 2017
Some of you may have had the misfortune over the last few nights to see this commercial. Produced and paid for by ex-convict Don Blankenship, the commercial features Gwen Thomas, sister of Grover Skeens, one of the 29 miners killed in the April 2010 Upper Big Branch (UBB) mine explosion. She defends Blankenship and blames the explosion on MSHA, asking President Trump to get to the truth.
Blankenship, you may recall, was the CEO of Massey Energy, which owned the UBB mine and was convicted in 2015 of a misdemeanor charge of conspiring to violate federal mine safety standards at UBB. He spent a year in prison. Blankenship was released earlier this year and is on a mission to exonerate himself and blame an Act of God, and MSHA for the explosion. Upon his release, he immediately launched a Twitter attack the government and former MSHA head Joe Main, and published a 67-page booklet that he wrote in prison about his supposedly unfair treatment at the hands of the government, calling himself a political prisoner.
Here’s the video. If you want to view it, keep a bucket near by in case you, uh, need it
vimeo.com/230169459
Gwen Thomas: UBB’s Unanswered Questions from Donald Blankenship on Vimeo.
September 6, 2017
Some of you may have had the misfortune over the last few nights to see this commercial. Produced and paid for by ex-convict Don Blankenship, the commercial features Gwen Thomas, sister of Grover Skeens, one of the 29 miners killed in the April 2010 Upper Big Branch (UBB) mine explosion. She defends Blankenship and blames the explosion on MSHA, asking President Trump to get to the truth.
Blankenship, you may recall, was the CEO of Massey Energy, which owned the UBB mine and was convicted in 2015 of a misdemeanor charge of conspiring to violate federal mine safety standards at UBB. He spent a year in prison. Blankenship was released earlier this year and is on a mission to exonerate himself and blame an Act of God, and MSHA for the explosion. Upon his release, he immediately launched a Twitter attack the government and former MSHA head Joe Main, and published a 67-page booklet that he wrote in prison about his supposedly unfair treatment at the hands of the government, calling himself a political prisoner.
Here’s the video. If you want to view it, keep a bucket near by in case you, uh, need it
vimeo.com/230169459
Gwen Thomas: UBB’s Unanswered Questions from Donald Blankenship on Vimeo.