Posted on 07/18/2018 9:33:33 PM PDT by TBP
Former West Virginia coal magnate Don Blankenship says he’s ready to get back into the West Virgnia senate race.
Blankenship said he has collected the requisite number of petition signatures and will be filing with the West Virginia Secretary of State’s Office in the next two weeks.
Blankenship, who was defeated in the Republican May 8 primary by state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, accepted the Constitution Party nomination on May 22.
“We have submitted more than the required petition signatures to the Secretary of State,” Blankenship said in an email on Friday.
Collecting petition signatures is one of the obligatory hoops Blankenship needed to jump through to get back in the U.S. Senate race.
It is still not clear whether Blankenship’s proposed candidacy change violates West Virginia’s “sore loser” law that restricts a candidate from accepting a political party’s nomination after having already lost in a primary.
(Excerpt) Read more at journal-news.net ...
If he gets on the ballot, it can only hurt Morrisey. I don't think he's out of touch enough to think he's getting elected. is he?
I had to gather signatures to get Al Haig on the presidential ballot in Iowa. It’s like pulling teeth.
He’s a sore loser, legally and personally.
He is, apparently, an ego-maniac who doesn’t give a damn about this nation.
If he gets on the ballot, it can only hurt Morrisey.
***********************************
That’s clearly the despicable creature’s intention. Hopefully he’ll be kept off of the ballot.
He’s a turd that is full of ego
I hope he gets slapped down hard
Oh, good. He’s going to split the votes.
Follow the $ with this Cretin. You can bet it’s coming by the way of the Rat Party.
Blankenship is another businessman. As such he saved West Virginia when he financed billboards that opposed Joe Manchin’s idea as governor to allow Wall Street to manage pension funds by investing in stocks. Some good ole boy would have made a fortune in commissions while the state would have been exposed to chicanery. That never happened.
What the heck are you talking about? Pension funds are SUPPOSED to invest in stocks as part of a diversified portfolio approach. How the heck would you make the future pension obligations by investing only in bonds? If you were so worried about the commissions you would have the state pension funds utilize Ameritrade, etc.
He’s also a resident of Nevada, not West Virginia.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.