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theHandpuppet

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Sun Aug 10, 2014, 02:36 PM Aug 2014

Is Mitch McConnell's wife involved with anti-coal group?

The Hill
August 08, 2014, 11:13 am
Is Mitch McConnell's wife involved with anti-coal group?
By Cameron Joseph

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has made his defense of the coal industry a cornerstone of his campaign. But his wife, former Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, is involved in a group that's spent millions attacking coal, according to Yahoo News.

Chao is on the board of directors of Bloomberg Philanthropies, a group that has given $50 million to the pro-environment Sierra Club for its "Beyond Coal" campaign, an effort specifically aimed at undercutting the coal industry.
The group's express goal is to close down one third of the 500 coal plants in the U.S. by 2020 and keep coal "in the ground in Appalachia."

Chao, who has been active on the campaign trail for her husband, joined the organization in 2012, after it began funding the initiative in 2011. She serves as an adviser to the group and earned $9,400 from it in 2012.

McConnell has repeatedly accused his opponent, Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes (D), of supporting President Obama's "war on coal," attacks that could be undercut by these revelations....

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/214684-report-mcconnells-wife-involved-with-anti-coal-group#ixzz3A1H5BJIi

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Is Mitch McConnell's wife involved with anti-coal group? (Original Post) theHandpuppet Aug 2014 OP
I don't understand the attraction Cartoonist Aug 2014 #1

Cartoonist

(7,529 posts)
1. I don't understand the attraction
Sun Aug 10, 2014, 07:04 PM
Aug 2014

Mitch's wife is attractive. Mitch looks like a turtle. I'm handsome and have nobody. I'm confused, envious, and bitter.

As to the issue raised in the OP, I don't think we can use it against Mitch. The last time someone criticized his wife, he turned it into a racial attack.

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