Massey chief to oppose bonds

[davidinalameda]

http://www.wvgazette.com/section/News/2005060729

Massey Energy Co. head Don Blankenship plans to spend “hundreds of thousands of dollars’’ to air television commercials in opposition to Gov. Joe Manchin’s proposal to sell up to $5.5 billion in bonds to salvage state pension funds.

“A person shouldn’t be in a position to complain if they aren’t going to do anything about it,’’ Blankenship told The Associated Press on Tuesday. “And I guess I want to be able to complain.’’

This will be the second time that the Massey chairman and chief executive officer has gotten involved in a statewide election. Blankenship last year paid $2.5 million for a series of negative television ads attacking then-Supreme Court Justice Warren McGraw, a Democrat. McGraw lost the election to Republican Brent Benjamin.

[davidinalameda]

1. and in other news--Official fires back at Blankenship

http://www.dailymail.com/news/News/2005060826/

Don Blankenship's campaign to defeat Gov. Joe Manchin's pension bond plan is just sour grapes over Manchin hiking the coal severance tax earlier this year, Manchin spokeswoman Lara Ramsburg said today.

The chairman and chief executive officer of Massey Energy Co. denied the link in an interview with The Associated Press Tuesday.

Manchin's proposal to sell up to $5.5 billion in bonds to salvage state pension funds will be before the voters in a June 25 special election. Early voting began Friday and lasts until June 21.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

2. how will he distort it and link it to sex offenders

and saving the kids?

[hollowdweller]

3. Did Manchin stand up for Warren when he got the treatment?

[Lasher]

4. Saving the Kids

Good point, how many kids have been saved so far, due to the election of Lapdog Benjamin? If none so far, has anybody seen a projection? How soon will the first one be saved, and how will that occur? Huh? Huh?

Will they be saved from all that Massey dust that continues to coat the lungs of children living in places like Sylvester? Is Benjamin going to save those children from Blankenship?

[Hubert Flottz]

5. Don Blankenship is a nut case!

I'd love to see him get the shaft for his dirty tricks! What a selfish a$$hole!

[Lasher]

6. Blankenship on Radio

This past Friday, Blankenship was on the Jerry Waters Show, a right wing radio talk show that broadcasts from Charleston 10 AM to noon on AM 950. I called in to ask Blankenship how many WV children he and his lapdog Justice Benjamin have saved so far. But he was only on the show 30 minutes and I had just missed him.

So I asked Jerry Waters if he knew how many had been saved. They got my point; Blankenship has zero credibility, and here they were giving him 30 minutes of air time. I noticed a 'Friends of Coal' commercial ran during the break. Wonder if there was a connection.

But the subject of the day was the bond proposal, which Waters and his mostly conservative listeners oppose, with few exceptions. I got a chance to say I was voting in favor of the bond, and debate the issue on the air with Jerry.

Hope I reached someone.