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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAn economic crisis in Kentucky has workers, businesses furious with McConnell
Joblessness is high, benefits are running out and local leaders say they need the kind of aid that the Senates most powerful figure has yet to endorseThe parade of cars honked incessantly as they crawled past the federal courthouse on West Broadway, their message clear to anyone who bothered to steal a glance at their signs outside.
Mitch better have my money.
The Kentucky representatives from the AFL-CIO, Teamsters and other labor groups had grown incensed with Mitch McConnell, their home state senator and the chambers most powerful lawmaker. For months, they said, he had been blocking much-needed congressional coronavirus aid, the kind of dollars that might help workers and businesses in the Bluegrass State struggling to survive financially.
So they hit the streets on Thursday, drove down to McConnells Louisville office and started to circle the block, their 30 or so vehicles plastered with not-so-subtle orange and gray signs featuring a family-friendly rewrite of a popular Rihanna tune.
The labor protest marked only the latest in a series of exasperated complaints from Kentuckians directed at McConnell (R), as some locals find themselves frustrated by the absence of their powerful political representative on Capitol Hill. In more than two dozen interviews, out-of-work residents, struggling restaurant owners and other business leaders, as well as a cadre of annoyed food, housing and labor rights groups, all said they are in dire need of more support from Congress the likes of which McConnell has not been able to provide.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/08/11/mcconnell-kentucky-coronavirus-aid/
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)But will they, despite all the angst?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Political inertia is terrible. People will vote for McConnell because they're used to him being "the Senator" and the reflected prestige it brings Kentucky that the Majority Leader is from their state. All the very good reasons for cashiering McConnell have an uphill battle to overcome the built-in advantage of incumbency.
Miguelito Loveless
(4,465 posts)they will vote for him. He could beat a toddler to death with a puppy and get re-elected.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)he will quickly change his tune . .
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)if not backed up by a serious campaign to fire the fucker it means nothing. They claim they hate the Turtle, but Amy McGrath would be a bridge too far to cross.
Just blowing off steam before bending over for another reaming.
IronLionZion
(45,447 posts)Most of these union workers must be knowing Amy McGrath exists. Vote for her
Leith
(7,809 posts)the part after the dash needs a rewrite: