{"id":17288,"date":"2018-05-09T15:52:27","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T22:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=17288"},"modified":"2018-05-09T15:52:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T22:52:27","slug":"we-wont-have-don-blankenship-to-kick-around-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2018\/05\/09\/we-wont-have-don-blankenship-to-kick-around-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"We won’t have Don Blankenship to kick around anymore…"},"content":{"rendered":"

… unless we do.\u00c2\u00a0 Which… who knows?\u00c2\u00a0 Could resurface as a perennial candidate who wins eventually.
\nAnd, truthfully, someone will show up — maybe even win a primary… maybe even win the general… and it’ll be extinguishable from… hm… Don Blankenship’s contribution to campaign ads<\/a> …<\/p>\n

“Swamp Captain Mitch Mcconnell has created millions of jobs for China People.
\nWhile dosing so, Mitch has gotten rich.
\nIn fact, his China People has given him tens of millions of dollars.
\nMitch’s Swamp People are now running false, misleading ads against me.
\nThey’re also childishly calling me despicable and mentally ill.
\nThe War to Drain the Swamp and create jobs for West Virginia People has began.
\nI will beat Joe Manchin and ditch Cocaine Mitch for the sake of the kids.”<\/p>\n

It may be that elections are now the last refuge for a sort of public vindication — or at least airing of grievances– of a scoundrel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Blankenship spent much of his campaign attempting to re-litigate the event for which he is now infamous\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe 2010 explosion at his company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Upper Big Branch mine that killed 29 miners\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand his subsequent conviction for conspiring to commit federal mine safety violations. In the Trump era, he found a sympathetic audience by\u00c2\u00a0presenting himself as a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153political prisoner\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0of President Barack Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Justice Department.<\/em><\/p>\n

All right.\u00c2\u00a0 So.\u00c2\u00a0 Joe Manchin-mania is… sweeping…
\n[…]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… unless we do.\u00c2\u00a0 Which… who knows?\u00c2\u00a0 Could resurface as a perennial candidate who wins eventually. And, truthfully, someone will show up — maybe even win a primary… maybe even win the general… and it’ll be extinguishable from… hm… Don Blankenship’s contribution to campaign ads … “Swamp Captain Mitch Mcconnell has created millions of jobs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17291,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17288\/revisions\/17291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}