re: #435 dangerman

What’s Blankenship saying?
I was convicted but I didn’t do it?

I interpreted it as him saying “someone else did it” but I can see those lizards who are saying he meant “I didn’t do it and was unfairly convicted”.

In any case, he ran a ship where profit (costs cut, volume mined) mattered and shortcuts of other kinds, safety work rules, ect were expected to be made to meet those goals. Making a charge that like stick in court is tough but the evidence was rock solid, safety was undermined as an explicit company policy, and he deserved a lot more than just one year in jail.

Hopefully, if he becomes the GOP candidate the votes remember all that.