Posted on 10/25/2014 10:51:15 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
The Chatter: McConnell loans himself $1.8M, Grimes doubles down on false claim in ad and 'Pennsyltucky' woman
Kentucky U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell is combating a new wave of Democratic spending in his race against Alison Lundergan Grimes by loaning his campaign $1.8 million, Politico reported Friday.
The Washington, D.C., outlet reported that McConnell’s personal contribution tops investments by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Senate Majority PAC totaling $1.5 million less than two weeks before the Nov. 4 election.
A campaign official told Politico McConnell’s loan reinforces the Senate Republican leader’s view that the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s resources should be spent in other midterm elections rather than his own.
“Sen. McConnell has maintained a longstanding personal commitment to his members that he won’t draw any resources from the team,” John Ashbrook, McConnell’s spokesman, told Politico. “So he’s going to match Obama’s money men out of his own pocket.”
McConnell holds an $800,000 cash advantage heading into the election, $5.2 million on hand compared to $4.4 million for Grimes, according to the latest campaign finance reports.
Coal keeps the Pinnochios coming
A Grimes ad blaming McConnell for the closure of one of two coal-fired units at Big Sandy Power Plant in Louisa, Ky., was given four Pinnochios by The Washington Post Thursday.
The newspaper’s fact checker Grimes “should be ashamed of herself” for airing an ad that doubles down on a falsehood of McConnell and his wife collecting $600,000 from anti-coal efforts and “makes another highly questionable assertion” that McConnell did not fight for scrubbers needed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions at the plant.
The ad can be seen here:
(Excerpt) Read more at mycn2.com ...
If the Republicans had targeted common sense voters who don't like what Obama is doing to the country then there wouldn't be a problem getting a majority.
But they didn't do that.
Instead they tried targeting Obama voters who at the first sign of a phony, media created Democrat October surprise, come running back to vote Democrat.
That's what we are seeing in many of the Senate races across the country. It's because of the GOP leadership's strategy.
It's a failure.
McConnell is the one Republican Senator we should hope loses.
I won’t be donating even a penny to later help his campaign pay back his personal loan to it but I do hope he pulls out a victory over the ‘RAT Grimes.
It would be nice if he would return to the Senate for the next session but lose the race for Senate Majority Leader to a more conservative Republican. Oh well, so much for fantasy.
>> McConnell is the one Republican Senator we should hope loses.
We cannot afford to lose the Senate. Why allow Grimes, the enemy in where she has the power of voting on laws to writing laws. I can’t stand Mitch but you need to rethink this. Both parties have fractions that are for amnesty. It’s a very difficult decision to vote for Mitch but I would never ever vote for a radical like Grimes.
Coal miners in KY and WV need to realize they are on the chopping block with a Harry Reid controlled Senate.
Self preservation is a good thing.
They are facing extinction, even though the world will buy all the coal we can mine, and yet, some of them keep pulling that Demon lever.
Grimes is from an old democrat family from near us here in southern Ohio....the Maysville, Paris, Lexington area. I guarantee that if she gets a foothold that she'll be hard to dislodge.
She is a radical pro-abortionist. She'll support anything Harry Reid says if the democrats retain control of the Senate.
McConnell is McConnell. He's good on life, guns, energy, coal, and after that he'll kowtow to the chamber of commerce.
David Patterson is the Libertarian Candidate. He's virtually unknown but here is his platform from his website:
>End domestic spying. A warrant should be required for any domestic surveillance.
◦Immigration reform. Peaceful people should be allowed to move freely, with minimal interference.
◦End state marriage. Consenting adults do not need permission from government.
◦End the drug war. Prohibition is costly, in dollars and in liberty, and unsuccessful.
>Non-intervention. Keep our nose out of the business of other nations.
◦Respect other cultures. We would not want other cultures pushed onto us.
◦Free trade. Trade is the best way to ensure peaceful international relations.
No bailouts. Companies must live and die by their own merits.
◦No special perks. Whether big or small, the rules should be the same.
◦No excessive regulations. Don't strangle our economy with ideology.
◦No cap on liability. Companies should be responsible for their actions.
◦Tax reform. End the income tax.
◦Industrial hemp. Allow our farmers to grow a versatile, viable crop here in America.
See #27. I added the formatting. Sorry for the inconvenient reading.
No problem.
Thanks for reformatting—that was good info on the KY candidates and now more people will read it.
We who?
He, McConnell, does not represent average American conservatives, nobody does who holds elective office.
He represents himself and his cronies in DC.
Candidates can say what they believe, but that doesn’t mean they will have one iota of influence over things if elected. Many bills are introduced and struck down or never brought to the floor. People need to wise up to what really happens once these clowns get elected.
“We can still have a majority without McCockle.”
The problem is that voters in other states may also think that about their senators. I’m thinking of Cochran in NC. I’m not a fan of him or McConnell. If it were up to me they would both be replaced by true conservatives. But if it were up to me, I’d probably also vote for them instead of their dem opponents.
The problem is that no matter how many Republicans win Senate seats in this election, the conservatives will still be a tiny minority.
Except for Biden. He is just as corrupt as the rest, if not more so, but too stupid to capitalize on it.
We’re writing in a Conservative or possibly voting for Patterson.
I will not vote for a Ruling Class Oligarch who vowed to crush Conservatives wherever he finds them, asserted we needed to be punched in the nose for daring to challenge him in the primary and who worked behind the scenes to get Cochran over the primary in MS. In many way, McConnell is WORSE for our cause than Grimes is. At least we know she is the enemy. We are stuck with a leader who has vowed to destroy us and serve us up to the enemy while pretending to be against everything he secretly works to enable.
The GOP under his rulership has enabled Obama’s dictatorship to go unchallenged, and they have given us NO REASON to vote FOR them outside of scare mongering and threats. They stand for nothing but their own power.
Sure hope Mitch crushes her.
If you’re suggesting McConnell or any other Senator receives gifts like 5 carat blue diamonds, that would be a serious violation of the Senate ethics rules, and should be prosecuted. Is that your suggestion? Is there any proof of any such gifts? Or is that “in your dreams?”
“McConnell needs to lose.”
Sorry....not at the expense of giving that Senate seat to a nut-ball Democrat. Get real.
And McCockle is not one of them.
So where’d professional political hack McConnell get $1.8 million to loan to his own campaign?
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