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kpete

(71,996 posts) Thu Apr 19, 2018, 04:24 PM Apr 2018

McTurtle looks at longer workweeks for Senate to keep Dems from campaigning: report

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is reportedly looking to hold longer workweeks as a way to keep vulnerable Democratic senators off the campaign trail.

White House legislative director Marc Short told a group of GOP donors this week that McConnell planned to prolong the Senate's workweek in order to reduce the amount of time vulnerable Democrats can spend campaigning, according to The Washington Examiner.

One GOP donor told the Examiner that the tactic is intended to keep Democrats, like Sens. Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.), Joe Manchin (W.Va.) and Claire McCaskill (Mo.), "tied up from campaigning."

Heitkamp, Manchin and McCaskill are among a handful of Senate Democrats facing potentially tough reelection bids in states won by President Trump in 2016.

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/383855-mcconnell-looks-at-longer-workweeks-for-senate-to-keep-dems-from-campaigning

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McTurtle looks at longer workweeks for Senate to keep Dems from campaigning: report (Original Post) kpete Apr 2018 OP

Then they should use it in their campaign ads. avebury Apr 2018 #1

Good idea. Wish I had read your before I posted. dameatball Apr 2018 #4

What would the penalty be if someone just told him to "F-Off?" Contempt? dameatball Apr 2018 #2

Devious nt BootinUp Apr 2018 #3

Suppress the competition - what a great idea! Initech Apr 2018 #5

They have no shame awesomerwb1 Apr 2018 #6

That could backfire on him. nt Blue_true Apr 2018 #7

avebury

(10,952 posts)

1. Then they should use it in their campaign ads.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu Apr 19, 2018, 04:29 PM

Apr 2018

Let the voters know that he/she works for them and that the Republicans view them as a threat to their dysfunctional majority by continuing to interfere with the election process.