McConnell Flips on Election Security Funding

[applegrove]

McConnell Flips on Election Security Funding

September 19, 2019 at 12:17 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard56 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/09/19/mcconnell-flips-on-election-security-funding/

"SNIP....

“Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell came out Thursday in support of providing states with an additional $250 million in election security funding, an abrupt turnaround after more than a year of opposition by the Kentucky Republican on the issue,” the Washington Post reports.

....SNIP"

[applegrove]

1. Blink.

[saidsimplesimon]

2. "The devil is in the details."

How will these funds be allocated?

[LiberalLovinLug]

20. To Red States, and swing States to pay off hackers and trolls

[ancianita]

22. Exactly. Who divvies up the funds to whom, right?

[uponit7771]

35. +1

[lagomorph777]

28. To buy new voting machines with backdoor openings (hint: password is Пу́тин)

[Midnight Writer]

3. Wonder if this abrupt about face is connected to the Administration's looming security scandal?

[FirstLight]

7. ding!

I'm thinking he's got some skin in that game...

[Mike 03]

12. You mean like maybe this Trump promise wasn't a one-way promise?

"If you hack the election in my favor, I'll..." ??

[Midnight Writer]

37. If a national security breach from Team Trump becomes public, Moscow Mitch will want to look tough.

Regardless of whether it is an election issue.

Mitch is a savvy political operator. And he knows allegiance to no one, including Trump.

If the GOP President is tainted with the stink of disloyalty to our nation, McConnell can claim that he and his Senate power base are standing up for American democracy, distancing themselves from the stench.

I will bet dollars to donuts that Mitch already knows the nature of the breach, even while the Democrats (who, under law, should have been briefed weeks ago) are kept in the dark.

I will further bet that this breach is of such a serious nature that it will put the GOP in political and legal peril.

[meadowlander]

4. Nothing to do with getting ahead of a certain whistleblower story about to break, I'm sure.

[Botany]

34. +1

Vlad's people can now hack computers that are not online aka voting machines and central tabulation machines.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. too late for Kentucky -- Moscow Mitch wants Bevin re-installed

[global1]

6. Why The Sudden Change Of Heart?.....

My friend thinks that he knows that the election will be stolen for Trump and that when that happens he can say that the election was on the up and up - no funny stuff - and we put $250 million into the states to assure a secure election.

[ancianita]

23. Yep. It's his best likely story.

[shanti]

8. Sorry, but I don't trust that weasel

There has to be something in it for him.

[lastlib]

38. Hey! Stop insulting weasels!

The Mustelidae family takes GREAT offense at being compared to Moscow Mitchell McConnell! Weasel are noble beasts compared to toilet scum such as him.

[Freethinker65]

9. Time for some targeted voter roll purging for "security" in purple states

Blue states will be on their own, or see very little funding.

[lagomorph777]

30. "Election Security" "Voter Suppression" in my English To GOP Dictionary

[Iliyah]

10. I do not trust him.

Saw an article where the RWers wanted him to implement "Election Security Funding". I'm pretty sure that is not in the country's favor. It reminds me of NC recently wherein Repigs waited until most of the Democrats went to the 9/11 anniversary event and then voted to veto the governor.

I do not trust Republicans.

[Kaiserguy]

32. The word for today,tomorrow and forever

" I do not trust Republicans" Never trust any Right-Winger or Republican words to live by!!

[safeinOhio]

11. Feeling some heat from the polls

for his re-election.

[eleny]

13. His internals must be gruesome

[GoneOffShore]

14. A stopped clock.

[diva77]

15. Without details, cannot assume that this will improve election security. It could easily do the

opposite but be spun the other way.

[yaesu]

17. yep, never trust a fascist. nt

[diva77]

18. just knowing that the vendors and elections officials have candidates over a

barrel, this could be a bribe to them to treat him "favorably"

[lagomorph777]

31. Exactly like HAVA

[diva77]

33. +1,000,000 EXACTLY like HAVA

[uponit7771]

36. +1

[yaesu]

16. maybe he knows its probably too late to help the '20 election so what the hell. nt

[Kablooie]

19. Perhaps he found out that Putin has fallen out of love with Trump...

and plans to support Trump's opposition.

[Perseus]

21. He was just letting time run out to make it more difficult to get all processes in place

Traitor.

[ancianita]

24. It's funding to the inside remote hackers being put into blue and battleground states, along with

beefing up poll samplings.

[ancianita]

25. He probably cut a deal to pass the bill in exchange for the House not investigating his wife.

[Fritz Walter]

26. If #MoscowMitch thinks this will make that nickname disappear

He is sadly mistaken.
He’s chin-deep in дерьмо, (Russian “shit”).

[SergeStorms]

27. Hmmmmm.....

It makes you wonder what happened - all of the sudden - to flip The Turtle on his back? Now we can watch his little legs windmill in the air. The truth will come out sooner or later, and we'll find out why republicans have broken the law and every aspect of decency on this and many, many more matters.

[lapfog_1]

29. ok, the Russian hack patch(es) to the voting machines

was delivered and installed...

Time to lock them down!

[spanone]

39. and he'll point to that as some kind of marker that he protected our elections...blah blah blah

the polling must have been dire to move the fucking turtle