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June 11, 2019

Transportation Sec. Chao Helped Boost Projects Favorable to Husband Sen. McConnell
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Politico is reporting Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has been
using her office to bolster projects benefiting her husband, Senate
Majority Leader Mitch Mc Connell. According to the report, Secretary
Chao designated a "special liaison" to handle grant applications "and
other priorities" for Mc Connell's home state of Kentucky, resulting in
at least $78 million in federal funds approved for local projects. Mc
Connell is running for re-election next year in Kentucky.

Walter Shaub, former director of the Office of Government Ethics and a
senior adviser at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington,
tweeted, "This is the sort of thing that should lead to the impeachment
of a corrupt official-that is, if her corrupt husband weren't in a
position to block that impeachment. We are now a full-fledged banana
republic. We have nothing to teach the rest of the world except what not
to be."


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