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MITCH MCCONNELL RECEIVED DONATIONS FROM VOTING MACHINE LOBBYISTS BEFORE BLOCKING ELECTION SECURITY BILLS

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell squashed two bills intended to ensure voting security on Thursday, just one day after former special counsel Robert Mueller warned that Russians were attempting to sabotage the 2020 presidential elections "as we sit here."

McConnell said he wouldn't allow a vote on the bills because they were "so partisan," but, as previously reported, earlier this year McConnell received a slew of donations from four of the top voting machine lobbyists in the country.

"Clearly this request is not a serious effort to make a law. Clearly something so partisan that it only received one single solitary Republican vote in the House is not going to travel through the Senate by unanimous consent," said McConnell on the Senate floor.

https://www.newsweek.com/mitch-mcconnell-robert-mueller-election-security-russia-1451361?amp=1&__twitter_impression=true

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. MoscowMitch never surprises me any more. This is a prime example. n/t

[hedda_foil]

2. Quash! The word is QUASH -- not squash, damnit!!!

If you're writing for a national news magazine, you should at least be able to use the correct words in your pieces.

[Saviolo]

5. I'm always reminded of this scene from The Wire:

[erronis]

8. That's so totally bazaar.

And The Wire was probably written before spill chuckers.

[hedda_foil]

10. Love it (Though you could say that people were evacuated from the building)

If you don't mind passive voice.

[diva77]

3. despite the "modest" donation amounts, I'm willing to bet a lot of money gets funneled through

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voting machine contracts which get into the hundreds of millions of $$$ in some counties.

[marieo1]

4. Scumbag

McConnell should have been gone a long time ago. Instead of passing bills the majority of Americans want he is Claiming they are partisan but the reality is what he is doing is nothing but partisanship. He is a rotten scum of a human being, always has been and always will be!! Period!!

[dchill]

6. Mirror, mirror on the wall...

Who's the partisanest of them all?

Massacring Moscow Mitch!

[SergeStorms]

7. Yeah, because fair and transparent elections....

are so "partisan", especially where republicans are concerned. If they can't cheat, they don't win. It's as simple as that.

[Leith]

9. That's the dictionary definition of

corruption.