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    Michael Hiltzik: In America, anyone can run for president, even the convicted coal baron Don Blankenship

    by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Nov 13, 2019 4 minutes

    Ah, America, where any boy born in the hills of Kentucky and raised in a West Virginia home with an outhouse can run for president.

    Even if he's served a prison term for his role in a mine explosion that took the lives of 29 men, after managing to retire from his coal company with a pension valued at $15.7 million.

    We're talking about Don Blankenship, who was CEO of Massey Energy on April 5, 2010, the day of the explosion in its Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia - the worst U.S. mine disaster in 40 years.

    Possibly counting on the adage that no publicity is bad publicity, Blankenship on Monday

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