WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is back in his home state of Kentucky this week, taking credit for the stacks of federal taxpayer cash he’s sent back to the Bluegrass State.
Republicans, and McConnell especially, have an awkward relationship with so-called “earmarks” — the government money that used to be traded for votes on Capitol HIll — and three days after getting a Democratic opponent in his reelection bid, McConnell’s awkwardness with earmarks was on full display.The LEO Weekly, a alternative paper in Louisville, reported Wednesday that McConnell appeared at the opening of a bike track in the city where developers thanked him for steering $35 million in federal money their way when they had asked him to bring in $10 million. McConnell earmarked the money for the project back in 2005, before the tea party wave of 2010 made earmarking a political evil for Republicans.
never heard of a two tongued turtle, have you? i keep going back to the right wing voters he same way we hear and read about these things so should they, find it hard to except they never stray from fox.
given that, that makes them as reprehensible as those they vote for, complicit in hijacking fellow Americans votes and health care and jobs through denial of the Pres. jobs act,
they were willing to go with sand oil pipeline through the middle of America with all the danger that brings for 20,000 jobs potentially against the million PRES. plan would have created.
after doing that to us he takes 3 times requested taxpayer money for a pet project but can't feed our school kids. or deal with infrastructure would be nice if the people could drive on that dirt road to work or the grocery store or take the kids to school.
McConnell fought to keep the earmarking system in place, backing down in 2010 after it became clear he didn’t have the votes in his caucus to defeat a ban on the practice. A spokesperson for the NRSC didn’t respond to a request for comment on McConnell’s current stance on earmarks. McConnell’s office didn’t respond to a request for comment either.McConnell boldly touted his earmarking skills in his 2008 election, saying his ability to steer federal taxpayer funds to Kentucky.“The guy you’re lookin’ at, your Senator, the Republican Leader of the Senate, brought home to the Commonwealth last year $500 million,” McConnell said on the campaign trail in 2008.
where is Issa you know there's something going on kick backs and other bribes. that's why the fight so hard for those senate and house seats that's were the money is, as they have proven to you these last 4 1/2 years you and your problems don't matter more than re-election so they can take several more bites out of the pie.
AG suspiciously MIA too.
