After Resisting, McConnell and Senate G.O.P. Back Election Security Funding

All of the sudden, #MoscowMitch decides to pretend to give a **** about our election security. Wonder what triggered him to finally do this after blocking it for so long?

poweRob said:

All of the sudden, #MoscowMitch decides to pretend to give a **** about our election security. Wonder what triggered him to finally do this after blocking it for so long?

After Resisting, McConnell and Senate G.O.P. Back Election Security Funding

WASHINGTON — Facing mounting criticism for blocking proposals to bolster election security, Senator Mitch McConnell on Thursday threw his weight behind a new infusion of $250 million to help states guard against outside interference in the 2020 voting.

Mr. McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, has been under regular attack from both Democrats and a conservative group for refusing to allow the Senate to vote on various election security proposals, some of them bipartisan, despite dire warnings from the intelligence community that Russia is already trying to replicate the elaborate meddling campaign it carried out during the 2016 presidential contest.​

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Optics, that's it. He wants to "appear" like he's doing something for the idiots that support him. When in reality it is nothing but smoke and mirrors. Remember this is the same shady Moscow Mitch that said we can't have a president pick a SCOTUS nominee during an election year but recanted when it was a Republican president and has said he WOULD push through a Republican presidential pick for SCOTUS during an election year.

Any Republican that supports Moscow Mitch and Traitorous Trump has proven they not only do NOT care for the rule of law but do not care about ethics either.

Giving McConnell credit here is like giving Trump credit for not deporting those whose lives would then be in danger, medically.

Trump is gonna be pissed.


But when isn't he pissed?

Well, his wife is in the hot seat as well. Mitch McConnell and his wife Elaine Chao, who only got her appointment as Secretary of Transportation because of her husband Mitch, is now under investigation herself.

House Oversight to investigate Elaine Chao for alleged conflicts

WASHINGTON – The House Oversight and Reform Committee said Monday it would be investigating Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao for alleged ethics violations.
Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill. sent a letter to the secretary, who President Donald Trump appointed to the position at the beginning of his term, requesting documents and information about alleged conflicts of interest.
The committee sought additional information about her alleged use of her official position to benefit her family's shipping company, Foremost Group, and initial failure to divest ownership of stock in Vulcan Materials, a construction company that received substantial funding from the Transportation Department.
“The Committee is examining your misstatements of fact, your actions that may have benefitted the company in which you continued to hold shares, and your compliance with ethics and financial disclosure requirements,” Cummings and Krishnamoorthi wrote in the letter.


Hey Trump supporters, let us know when Trump gets that nasty swamp drained, will ya? If you have time, Google about Elaine Chao's uncle who had his ship the Ping May raided off the coast of Colombia and found it was smuggling cocaine.

poweRob said:

All of the sudden, #MoscowMitch decides to pretend to give a **** about our election security. Wonder what triggered him to finally do this after blocking it for so long?

After Resisting, McConnell and Senate G.O.P. Back Election Security Funding

WASHINGTON — Facing mounting criticism for blocking proposals to bolster election security, Senator Mitch McConnell on Thursday threw his weight behind a new infusion of $250 million to help states guard against outside interference in the 2020 voting.

Mr. McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, has been under regular attack from both Democrats and a conservative group for refusing to allow the Senate to vote on various election security proposals, some of them bipartisan, despite dire warnings from the intelligence community that Russia is already trying to replicate the elaborate meddling campaign it carried out during the 2016 presidential contest.​

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Paywall, damn it.

Anyway, it looks like it was group of conservative senators that changed MoscowMitch's mind.