Kentucky Voters Turning Their Backs on McConnell and Chao
Vanity Fair reports, “Last month, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stonewalled a plan to fix the nation‘s roads, bridges, mass transit, and other crumbling infrastructure, despite the urgency of the issue and the outline of the deal receiving rare support from both Democrats and the White House. But, as it turns out, McConnell isn’t opposed to all infrastructure spending. In fact, he’s quite open to it when it‘s flowing specifically to towns in his home state, thanks to a special arrangement with the Transportation Department set up by his Cabinet secretary wife.”1
Husband of new federal judge, Wendy Vitter, serves as lobbyist for Russian oligarch’s company
MSNBC, May 21, 2019 – Rachel Maddow notes how the dots connect awkwardly for Mitch McConnell after the wife of the lobbyist who alerted McConnell to a huge Russian investment in Kentucky was suddenly processed for a federal judgeship for which she is not qualified.2
- Vanity Fair, Bess Levin, June 10, 2019 – McConnell’s Wife Gave Him A Special Reelection Present: $78 Million in Federal Funding – Elaine Chao reportedly assigned a liaison dedicated to coordinating infrastructure projects in Kentucky during her husband’s reelection campaign.
- The Rachel Maddow Show, May 21, 2019 – Wife of lobbyist for Russian plant in KY got boost from McConnell
