Author: Don Blankenship

Don Blankenship, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate and former CEO of Massey Energy Company, issues a Golden Horseshoe test challenge to New Jersey/Washington D.C. native Patrick Morrisey. It is appalling that Patrick Morrisey, who moved to West Virginia a few years ago to run for public office after losing a congressional race in his home state of New Jersey and lobbying for big pharmaceutical companies in D.C., to say I am not a West Virginian. I grew up and was educated in West Virginia. I have created thousands of jobs across West Virginia. While Patrick Morrisey was losing a New…

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Don Blankenship, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate issued the following statement in response to D.C. chatter regarding possible D.C. establishment opposition to his candidacy. There has been an awful lot of talk lately about who the Washington, D.C. Establishment and Mitch McConnell, in particular, are supporting in West Virginia’s U.S. Senate race. Let me be clear, I don’t care who they are supporting. I know that it is not me, because we recognize that those defending the swamp do not want Republican Senators who want to drain the swamp. We are aware that Mitch McConnell has not been a supporter…

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This ad makes clear that Patrick Morrisey is associated with drug distributors who have knowingly distributed millions of unneeded drugs into West Virginia. These so called pain killing drugs cause far more pain for West Virginia residents than they relieve. As West Virginians, we are all sickened by the drug epidemic. We are also angry that our state leads the nation in drug overdose deaths per capita. Morrisey and his wife’s firm have lobbied on behalf of these companies despite his claiming he wants to stop our state’s drug epidemic. Lobbying for a company that is distributing millions of unneeded…

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Don Blankenship, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate and former CEO of Massey Energy Company, issued the following statement regarding Joe Manchin and Evan Jenkins failing Huntington for decades. For 20 years, career politicians like Evan Jenkins and Joe Manchin have dropped the ball, and our proud city of Huntington is now the drug abuse capital of the nation. That’s sad, but it can be fixed. Not with speeches and proclamations, but by arresting the illegals and out-of-state criminals who deliver their poison, cutting the length & quantity of legitimate opiate prescriptions, drug testing our own government leaders, building the wall…

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Don Blankenship, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate and former CEO of Massey Energy Company, issued the following statement in response to career politician Evan Jenkins’ first television ad. Evan’s ad is certainly upbeat – a real feel good ad. It’s important to be positive and enthusiastic. But it’s equally (or more) important to be realistic. Evan has a great deal to be positive about. He has a great life and, as the video commercial says, a wonderful family. But thats not the main goal of his job. West Virginians need a representative who treats us like family. Someone who wants…

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The purpose of this radio ad (see below) is to clarify that I was never charged with having caused the mine explosion. The basis of the prosecution charge against me was a single sentence in a letter that I did not write. A letter that the Massey Investor Relations and Public Relations Departments felt should be sent post the Upper Big Branch (UBB) explosion. The letter corrected the media’s false reports, which – among other things – alleged numerous violations at UBB. Multiple internal and external attorneys reviewed the letter before I signed it. As companies regularly do following a…

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This ad is simple. We need to build a wall. But the purpose of the wall is not to stop immigration – it’s to stop “illegal immigration.” Companies, civic groups, and even social clubs all select whom they want to have as members of their organizations. America should not be any different. We should ask all immigrants what President John F. Kennedy said we should ask ourselves. “Ask not,” Kennedy said “what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country.” This is the basic question that should be paraphrased and asked of all immigrants.…

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On Thursday, March 8th, Don Blankenship, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate and former CEO of Massey Energy Company, will hold his eighth town hall meeting of the campaign in Hurricane, West Virginia, at Sleepy Hollow Golf Club. A reception will precede the event at 5:30 p.m. and the program will begin at 6:00 p.m. The event is expected to conclude about 7:30 pm. Attendance is free and everyone is welcome. The campaign recommends that those interested in attending register for the event on the campaign website at votedonblankenship.com. However, attendees can also register at the door. Mr. Blankenship will speak…

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Don Blankenship, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate and former CEO of Massey Energy Company, issued the following release regarding socialist organization protestors at his Morgantown town hall meeting. At last evening’s town hall meeting on the campus of West Virginia University, a socialist organization protested the meeting. First, the socialists laughed through the invocation. Then, the socialists would not stand for the flag while the rest of the meeting attendees said the Pledge of Allegiance. And then the socialists used vulgar language to try and disrupt Mr. Blankenship’s speech before they retreated to the hallway to sing a union anthem.…

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