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 Stories About: state politics AND West Virginia AND shenanigans AND politics AND elections
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We'll always have Monaco
W. Va. Supreme Court chief justice and friend to dirty coal loses reelection bid |
David Roberts |
14 May 2008 |
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| Remember Spike Maynard? He was the chief justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court, the one caught canoodling around the Caribbean with mountaintop mining executive Don Blankenship -- and some young women to whom, suffice to say, they were not betrothed -- while Blankenship's company, Massey Energy, had a case before the court. Maynard said he just happened to run into Blankenship in Monaco. (These things happen, right?) Spike got booted from that case, but he dragg ... |
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| Topics: elections, politics, shenanigans, state politics, West Virginia (all these topics) |
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