{"id":523972,"date":"2010-04-12T06:46:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T10:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=8205"},"modified":"2010-04-12T06:46:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T10:46:56","slug":"candidate-for-congress-touted-%e2%80%9csafe%e2%80%9d-coal-days-before-massey-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/523972","title":{"rendered":"Candidate for Congress Touted \u201cSafe\u201d Coal Days Before Massey Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-8207\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/12\/candidate-for-congress-touted-safe-coal-days-before-massey-disaster\/accce-promotes-friendly-coal\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8207\" title=\"ACCCE promotes friendly coal\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/04\/ACCCE-promotes-friendly-coal.jpg\" alt=\"Coal industry uses friendly smiling animated lumps of coal to promote clean coal\" width=\"500\" height=\"382\" \/><\/a>By now the name <a title=\"crooksandliars.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/karoli\/massey-energy-don-blankenship-million-dolla\" >Don Blankenship<\/a> is practically a household word all across the U.S. following <a title=\"wsj article\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304846504575178180010353868.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsForth\" >the death of 29 miners<\/a> at a Massey Energy coal mine, but Blankenship &#8212; the company&#8217;s CEO &#8212; has been well known in West Virgina and throughout Appalachia for some time now.\u00a0 Perhaps equally well known is an apparent pal of his, former\u00a0 <a title=\"herald-dispatch article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.herald-dispatch.com\/elections\/x1619683909\" >state Supreme Court judge Elliot Maynard<\/a>.\u00a0 While on the bench, Maynard hooked up with Blankenship on an overseas vacation and voted to reverse a $50 million jury award against Massey.\u00a0 When the relationship came to light in 2008, it helped spike Maynard&#8217;s re-election.<\/p>\n<p>Now Maynard is now vying to be <a title=\"talking points memo article\" href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/04\/judge_who_vacationed_with_massey_ceo_now_running_f.php?ref=fpblg\" >the Republican nominee for Congress<\/a> in a West Virginia district deep in coal country.\u00a0\u00a0 Is he still thisclose to Blankenship?\u00a0 Zachary Roth over at <a title=\"talking points memo home page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/\" >Talking Points Memo<\/a> has the story with a link to Maynard&#8217;s Facebook campaign page, which sports a March 26 press release.\u00a0 In it Maynard announces that he&#8217;s invited a celebrity to visit a coal mine in West Virginia.\u00a0 The money quote:\u00a0 &#8220;We would love to have Sarah showcase <a title=\"maynard on facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/spike-maynard-for-congress\/press-release-sarah-palin-targets-rahall-maynard-invites-palin-to-visit-working-\/404826774313\" >modern mining as a clean, safe and cheap way to produce energy.<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3> <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/12\/candidate-for-congress-touted-safe-coal-days-before-massey-disaster\/#more-8205\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now the name Don Blankenship is practically a household word all across the U.S. following the death of 29 miners at a Massey Energy coal mine, but Blankenship &#8212; the company&#8217;s CEO &#8212; has been well known in West Virgina and throughout Appalachia for some time now.\u00a0 Perhaps equally well known is an apparent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}