McConnell: Self-Funding Multimillionaire Investing More Money In His Source Of Wealth-- His Sleazy Political Career

Last week we looked at PolitiFact verify that Mitch McConnell is the number one recipient of lobbyist money in the entire Congress. McConnell has used his Senate office to become immensely wealthy, primarily by being an unregistered agent of the Chinese Communist government and pushing their agenda. As the September 30 FEC reporting deadline, McConnell had already raised $26,896,568 and spent $21,494,327 to Alison Grimes' $16,250,304 raised and $11,862,353 spent. Meanwhile, McConnell's own criminal SuperPAC, Kentuckians for Strong Leadership, and SuperPACs allied with his campaign have spent $14,471,946 savaging Alison Grimes and another $4,582,271 trying to paint a misleading picture of McConnell as a vaguely "normal" person.

McConnell's Kentuckians for Strong Leadership PAC isn't funded by Kentuckians at all, but by a couple of dozen right-wing crooks from everywhere but Kentucky. This is the list of the rich assholes trying to help McConnell buy the Kentucky Senate race. Ask yourself why.

• Robert C. McNair, Houston, owner Houston Texans, $500,000
• Lawrence F. DeGeorge, Jupiter, Fla., self, venture capital, $500,000
• Christine Chao, New York, attorney, $400,000
• John W. Childs, Vero Beach, Fla., J.W. Childs Associates, chairman, private equity, $390,000
• Murray Energy Corp., St. Clairsville, Ohio, coal, $300,000
• Joe Craft (including related trust and company), Tulsa, coal, $300,000
• Philip H. Geier Jr., New York, New York, Geier Group, $200,000
• Warren A. Stephens Trust, Little Rock, Ark., financial services, $200,000
• John W. Nau III, Houston, Silver Eagle Distributors, $200,000
• Barbara R. Banke, Santa Rosa, Cal., Jackson Family Holdings, $200,000
• Craig Duchossois (including related trust), Elmhurst, Ill., Duchossois Group, CEO, $200,000
• Ed Bosarge, Houston, Capital Technologies, CEO, $175,000
• Thomas McInerney, Westport, Conn., Bluff Point Associates, venture capital, $150,000
• David A. Jones, Louisville, retired Humana executive, $125,000
• Dick Morris' Super PAC for America scam, Tampa, $125,000
• Steven Webster, Houston, Avista Capital, private equity, $125,000
• Ray L. Hunt, Dallas, Hunt Consolidated, chairman, oil, $100,000
• Bradley Bloom, Wellesley, Mass., Berkshire Partners, private equity, $100,000
• Stephen Chancellor, Evansville, Ameriqual Group, $100,000
• Howard Cox, Boston, venture capital, $100,000
• Curtis Mewbourne, Tyler, Texas, Mewbourne Oil, $100,000
• Bob Perry, Houston, Perry Homes, $100,000
• Sam Fox, St. Louis, Harbour Group, chairman, $100,000
• Kenny Troutt, Dallas, retired, $100,000
• NextEra Energy, Juno Beach, Fla., $100,000
• Kemper Holdings, Bellevue, Wash., $100,000
• Stephen I. Chazen, Pacific Palisades, Cal., Occidental Petroleum, $100,000
• Jim Justice Family, Beaver, West Virginia, coal, $100,000

Even with all that spending, McConnell has been unable to put the race to bed. The most recent public polling (October 20), by SurveyUSA for the a consortium of the state's biggest media outlets including the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Lexington Herald-Leader and the state's CBS affiliate, WKYT, shows a dead heat within the margin of error-- 44% for McConnell and 43% for Grimes. Predictably, McConnell panicked... and wrote his campaign a personal check for $1.8 million, a loan he will get back from his backers in Mainland China after he wins again.

McConnell could never get reelected on the issues. He wants to destroy Kentucky's very popular health insurance plan, Kynect, the local name for Obamacare and if the election hinged on jobs and a slow economy, probably the biggest issue for the most Kentuckians, there is no one more responsible for slow growth and the weakening of the safety net than McConnell himself. As Brian Beutler pointed out Friday in the New Republic, McConnell refused to answer "a straightforward question about whether the GOP will resume efforts to privatize Social Security, if they regain control of Congress... 'I’m not announcing what the agenda would be in advance. We’re not in the majority yet. We’ll have more to say about that later'."