Disgraced Massey Energy CEO Blankenship comes out of hiding, launches political website

He's been lying low since pleading the Fifth and fleeing the state after his unsafe Upper Big Branch mine killed 29 workers, but he's back...

We’ve had a couple of posts over the last few weeks (see here and here) about the recent activities of former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship. Well, it seems Blankenship has also launched his own website, DonBlankenship.com.

The site makes for some interesting reading, proclaiming Blankenship an “American Competitionist” and offering what it calls “Factual discussions on America” like this:

Most every country in the world, in one way or another, benefits from a strong, healthy America. All Americans, and in fact all the world, are stakeholders in our country. It is America, and Americans, that have led the world’s progress in the improvement of people’s quality of life…

http://blogs.wvgazette.com/coaltattoo/2012/10/23/don-blankenship-american-competitionist