McConnell Brushes Off Reports Of Wife’s Favoritism

Secretary of Transportation nominee Elaine Chao and her husband Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell depart the 2017 Presidential Inauguration at the US Capitol on January 20, 2017 in Washington,DC. Donald Trump wa... Secretary of Transportation nominee Elaine Chao and her husband Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell depart the 2017 Presidential Inauguration at the US Capitol on January 20, 2017 in Washington,DC. Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States Friday -- ushering in a new political era that has been cheered and feared in equal measure. / AFP / POOL / Jack Gruber (Photo credit should read JACK GRUBER/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) brushed off a report that his pet projects are getting special attention from the Department of Transportation due to his close (read: married) relationship to Secretary Elaine Chao.

“You know, I was complaining to her just last night, 169 projects and Kentucky got only five,” he said to a reporter who asked about the veracity of the report. “I hope we can do a lot better next year.”

That’s the statistic being touted by the Transportation Department as well.

Per Politico’s report, the department’s grants for McConnell’s projects have topped $78 million as the Kentucky senator gears up for reelection in 2020. The projects include an $11.5 million infrastructure improvement to Owensboro, a city long tied to McConnell that features a plaza named after him.

Chao also reportedly assigned an aide, Todd Inman, to specifically work as an intermediary between McConnell’s office and hers, an edge that other states do not have.

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  1. Favoritism is a funny way to say out and out corruption.

  2. Wonder what the Vegas odds are for a claim of executive privilege when the Dems try to look into this…

  3. "169 projects and Kentucky got only five,”

    4.45 million people and KY got 2 senator.

  4. I’m reposting this one from yesterday I put on another thread. It was late and I had too much tRump and his enablers on the brain as I tried to fall asleep last night.

    I can hardly wait until we can vote all these corrupt assholes out of office. Let’s do 2018 all over again except this time, let’s go a lot bigger, shall we? Let’s take back the Senate. Frankly, we only need 4 seats to take over that body and rid ourselves of that fucking reptile and his evil wife.

  5. Even that stat Supports the corruption narrative. Kentucky has 1.5% of population but 3% of the grants. A deeper dig would look at the dollars.

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