Washington, D.C. — The McConnell-aligned super PAC Senate Leadership Fund has announced $67M in ad buys in six states — Arizona, Kentucky, Colorado, Iowa, Maine and North Carolina — to prop up some of his biggest allies in the Senate and his own reelection campaign. That is more than double the amount spent by the super PAC during the 2018 midterm elections, notes Politico’s James Arkin.
At a time of national pandemic, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is putting his partisan political priorities first: propping up the campaigns of his allies in the Senate so he can give half a trillion dollars in secret bailouts to his corporate donors.
The country and world are scared as a pandemic threatens thousands of lives and businesses are shuddering and laying off workers en masse. The economy is under extreme stress and no one knows when the social distancing measure in place across the country will be lifted. But McConnell is putting corporate interests and his personal power ahead of the American people every day.
Case in point: McConnell’s pushing a $500 billion slush fund for corporations with no oversight. His campaign donor list is a who’s who of corporations and the one percent whose pockets would be lined with taxpayer dollars should his corrupt bailout scheme pass.
"Everyone knows that McConnell's Senate is pay-to-play. But it's insultingly transparent when they line up to create a slush fund for corporate bailouts and, on the same day, use money from corporate CEOs and special interests to run television ads for their re-election. McConnell's Senators are more concerned with their stock portfolios than the American people — and McConnell keeps showing us he's not fit to lead," said Joshua Karp of Fix Our Senate.
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