BREAKING: Don Blankenship switches parties

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

It would just highlight the absurdity and kakistocracy of West Virginia politics.

Two obese, rich robber barons running against each other: one a Democrat-turned-Republican (who was also a Republican before that), the other a Republican-turned-Democrat.

We don't need the Coal Barons running our State, where the bosses regardless of political party have waged massive repression and violence against the Union Movement.

We don't need Democratic and Republican politicians that provide fake solutions and half-baked visions and dreams to the lack of affordable health care, an increasingly aging population where young folks leave for job opportunities and a "better life" elsewhere as part of American Internal Migration.

This is an old story, not unique to WV as there are various Western States where the Mining Bosses owned the means of production and used repression and guns against the strikes of Union Men and Women....

We remember the history, and quite frankly when it comes to this industry I am more of perspective of "Dump the Bosses off your Back"....

Utah Phillips: "Dump the Bosses off your Back"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymY6y6o6PAo

Peggy Seegar: "Black Lung"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhdMRsPQryM

Peggy Seegar: "Taft-Hartley"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sTJL05o3J0

Phil Ochs: "No Christmas in Kentucky"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwu22-2ZfbU

John Prine: "Paradise"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEy6EuZp9IY


Bottom line, WV and KY need strong leaders who protect worker and environmental rights, and not simply be sycophants or the owners that have historically been responsible for supporting the interests of the "Bosses" against the interests of the owners.

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Tell that to all the Trump voters...

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

I wonder if Don Blankenship is related to Greely Blankenship, executed by the state of West Virginia in 1935 for the crime of murder.

The last name isn't exactly common.