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Surely It's a Coincidence That a Firm Tied to a Russian Oligarch Is Pouring Millions Into Kentucky
Charles Pierce at Esquire
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a27259438/oleg-deripaska-kentucky-aluminum-mitch-mcconnell-rand-paul/
"SNIP.....
Enter Rusal, a Russian aluminum company that until just three months ago was barred from doing business in the United States in part because of its ties to Deripaska. The Trump administration lifted the sanctions in January after Deripaska agreed to reduce his ownership stake in the Moscow-based company, the worlds second-largest aluminum manufacturer, from 70% to less than 45%.
And that came only after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell backed that decision despite large numbers of Republicans and Democrats who objected to allowing Rusal and its parent company En+ Group into the United States. The House voted to keep the sanctions 362-53, but the Senate fell three votes short of the 60 votes needed to end a filibuster. McConnell, along with Sen. Rand Paul, voted against the resolution.
Two of the three votes needed to maintain the sanctions against goons like Deripaska came from senators representing a state into which his company was pumping money he'd obtained god knows where or how, and one of whom is the Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate into whose PAC Deripaska's partner dumped $3.5 million between 2015 and 2017. Oddly, one of the stories that has sunk like a stone over the past few years is the story of how much Russian ratfcking money went into Republican campaigns generally over the past few cycles.
Again, nobody knows what the ultimate sources of this money may be, but since Russia is a thoroughgoing thieves' paradise, anybody's guess is as good as anybody else's. But only a fool believes in accidents any more.
.....SNIP"
BigmanPigman
(51,583 posts)It has been news on DU for a while so a lot of others are aware of it too. How do we get it "out there"?
His approval in Kentucky is only 33% but we know how Russia helps its enablers. How do we fight this?
dalton99a
(81,432 posts)Rand Paul is practically Putin's errand boy in the U.S. Senate
BadgerMom
(2,770 posts)Norbert
(6,039 posts)The polls looked good for his defeat (I know, those damn polls). He won by a comfortable margin.
Could Mitch's fiends have helped?
lindysalsagal
(20,648 posts)But only DJT was going to build a moscow tower.