“Thanks everyone that did not vote for a certain person.”Harrah has been living the last eight years with the Upper Big Branch mining disaster weighing on her. The credible Senate run made by Blankenship, Massey’s unrepentant former chief executive, has made the Upper Big Branch tragedy feel like yesterday to Harrah and other families who lost loved ones. “Just to know we don’t have to look at him anymore.”Despite investigators’ findings, Blankenship has never taken responsibility for what happened at Upper Big Branch. Apparently not enough voters bought Blankenship’s claims about Upper Big Branch, or his insistence that he’d bring more jobs back to the state’s coal fields, to send him into a general election against Sen. Joe Manchin (D). Davis even confronted Blankenship at a Republican meet-and-greet, telling him he was to blame for the deaths at Upper Big Branch.

Source: Huffington Post May 09, 2018 17:26 UTC