While Sen. Mitch McConnell has been railing about "blue state bailouts," insisting that no more federal money goes to states and cities unless businesses are allowed to kill their workers with no fear of being held liable, his campaign is back in Kentucky crowing about how much taxpayer money is being dumped into the state.
He's running an ad about McConnell's history of responding to crises, including this one. Kate Cooksey, the press secretary for his campaign says that since they can't have traditional campaign events, they're going on air emphasizing how McConnell "was a key part of congressional negotiations that secured about $11 billion for Kentucky through federal relief efforts." Never mind the part about how he secured more than $500 billion for his corporate pals. "He takes every race and everything he does incredibly seriously, and with this pandemic he knows that his job as Senate majority leader and his role in the government really requires something different from him," Cooksey told the Courier-Journal.
We can save the nation in the next pandemic. We can boot McConnell and his majority, with your $3.
Outside of Kentucky, everyone knows he's not doing a damned thing differently. Here's what he said about the crisis last week in D.C.: "I don't think we have yet felt the urgency of acting immediately. That time could develop, but I don't think it has yet."
The urgency McConnell is experiencing right now is having the Senate in session to confirm Trump judges, as well as a few other nominees, and nothing else. He's endangering the entire Senate by having them all be together in D.C. to vote on judges. Not on saving the citizens or the economy from coronavirus, but getting his Federalist Society pals packed into federal benches throughout the country.
That's $11 billion to Kentucky, paid for disproportionately by blue state taxpayers, and no more money for the first-responders, or teachers, or utility workers across the country that have kept their towns and cities and states running. This is what McConnell's campaign is claiming as "leadership."
