Mitch McConnell sought money for biofuel plant while criticizing Obama for idea
Source: Louisville Courier-Journal
McConnell sought grant, criticized plan
Feb. 13, 2014 5:57 PM
Two years ago, U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell took to the Senate floor to deride President Barack Obama for a speech that called for developing biofuel from algae dismissing it as nothing more than a pipe dream.
I think the American people realize that a president whos out there talking about algae when theyre having to choose between whether to buy groceries or to fill up the tank is the one whos out of touch, McConnell thundered.
But a few years earlier, McConnell, R-Ky., himself worked to obtain a $30 million grant for a company that wanted to build a plant in Springfield, Ky., to turn algae, switchgrass, corncobs and other such materials into ethanol a plant that ultimately was never built and a grant that was never spent.
And each time McConnell interceded on behalf of the Nicholasville-based company Alltech or the federal government took action to help, its founder and president wrote a check to McConnells campaign or the Republican Party of Kentucky.
Though others in Kentuckys delegation supported the grant application, including U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth, D-3rd District, none except McConnell received contributions from T. Pearse Lyons, Alltechs founder and president, according to the Federal Election Commission website.
Read more: http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20140213/NEWS010605/302130054?gcheck=1&nclick_check=1
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)it is called the corruption of elections by money, and this is an example of the result.
And each time Mitch interceded the company cut him another cheque?
Is it wrong to call such a politician a Corporate Whore?
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)how wasteful and irresponsible the stimulus funds were, and how they'd never ever ever accept them....Only to take them months later with no one watching...
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Party of the Two Faced PukeBaggers.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)Unfortunately some my deluded fellow kentuckians keep voting for this asshole.
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,340 posts)That sounds like fraud. Will they be paying the money back with interest, or going to jail, or both?