Posted on 03/08/2021 8:03:07 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Rumors are spreading like wildfire that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s retirement may be imminent. He won reelection in November, but it may be unrealistic to 79-year-old can stay in the Senate another six years. Now, the Kentucky state legislature is moving to protect the Republican Party by forcing Democrat Governor Andy Beshear to choose from three GOP options.
According to Newsmax:
For days, news in Kentucky has been dominated by reports that the Republican-dominated state legislature is poised to change the means for filling a vacancy in the U.S. Senate.
This has led fueled speculation from the State Capitol in Frankfort to the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., about the person who badly wants this legislation enacted and whom it most affects: Mitch McConnell, Senate Republican leader and handily re-elected last fall to a 7th term.
If enacted, the proposed legislation will remove Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s power to appoint whomever he chooses to a vacant Senate seat.
Instead, he and future governors would be required to choose the new lawmaker from a list of three from the executive committee of the party of the outgoing senator.
At 79, amid on-and-off speculation about McConnell’s health, the man called “Mr. Leader” by Republican colleagues and staffers and simply “The Senator” by Bluegrass State Republicans shows no signs of stepping down. Just this weekend, McConnell sent clear signals to Democrats he would thwart any attempt by them to scuttle the filibuster in the Senate.
But the speculation continues. McConnell supports the proposed change in rules for filling a Senate vacancy (officially Senate Bill 228). Morever, state Republicans have gone as far as to offer a list of three Republicans from which McConnell’s successor will be chosen.
McConnell has been uncharacteristically fearless in his handling of the post-election narrative surrounding President Trump. He has voiced direct opposition to the President’s alleged calls for insurrection, calls that prompted a second impeachment. But McConnell has fallen just shy of siding with Democrats wholeheartedly against the president who made McConnell’s time as Senate Majority Leader so eventful.
As soon as the Kentucky legislature changes the rules to keep party control over Mitch McConnell’s Senate seat, we can expect him to retire. It should have come years ago, but perhaps the nightmare will be ending soon.
Problem is that he very well may be replaced with a equally worthless GOP-tard or knowing the stop and steal machine with harvesting,a Rat may steal the seat.
The republican incumbent angered many people. His mistake was to propose a different pension plan for teachers. He didn’t realize that you first get reelected and then propose/push the plan in your second term. They came out in mass to vote against him.
Are Davey Crockett or Daniel Boone available to run? Just sarcing/asking but they’d be better than Mr. SloGo, NoGo McConnell.
China Mitch led the GOPe to subvert and thwart President Trump.
He attacked with Rats after Sham Impeachment II.
Amy Barrett is Mitch’s pick. She refused to lift a finger against election theft.
Crushed by Trump’s support of Patriots, Mitch is done.
Nothing but the final touches on rules for the coming vacancy.
Daniel Cameron, Kentucky’s Republican Attorney General, is a rising star. He is young, extremely intelligent, very handsome and African American. Kentuckians love him. He is the kind of candidate who could rise to the Presidency one day. Watch Daniel.
Being one of the Uniparty (R) chief architects of the destroy MAGA effort, he can now retire, mission accomplished. Of course, the family business McConnell/CCP Chinese Shipping, is now set to make billions moving MAGA back to China, where Mitch originally sold it.
I also found Cameron impressive, but it’s too bad that he was one of only a tiny number of red state Republican Attorneys General who did not support the TX voter fraud Constitutional challenge on behalf of Trump voters. I’m not sure Cameron can be fully trusted as MAGA. He probably would be better than Turtle and a lot of other RINOs though.
Oh, no! You can have him, we don't want him, he's too bad, oh so bad, he's too bad for me.
With these kind of numbers, a 75% majority, how did a demonRAT get elected as gubbernor?
Same old way: the GOP runs a democrat-lite, corrupt old boy with skeletons scattered all over his front yard, to say nothing about what may be in his closet.
Someone has to name 3 candidates not just 1.
LOL
Bevin?
What was his problem?
Got it.
Veto proof legislature, but Beshear won’t lose in the end. Dems own the state supreme court. They’ll toss the law as unconstitutional.
I know nothing of Kentucky law, but the law that I understand is similar in Massachusetts, enacted while Romney was governor and Kennedy was sick, and in one of the Carolinas. Maybe other places as well. I can’t think what the argument might be against it being constitutional for the legislature to enact legislation of this sort unless the state constitution dictates some other method for filling vacancies
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