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red dog 1

(27,797 posts)
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 07:42 PM Oct 2014

Mitch McConnell Gets Caught Trying To Disguise His Paid Supporters As Sound Crew

Source:
Politicususa.com
October 23, 2014

Senator Mitch McConnell was caught in a massive lie today when he told reporters that his paid supporters were sound crew.
Other media soon revealed that many of his supporters at rallies were bused in
.
McConnell claimed that his paid supporters were sound crew.

A reporter who asked Sen. McConnell about the paid supporters after an event in Louisville today was lied to, and snapped at by the reeling incumbent

McConnell said, "We had some staff people staffing the events.
Ninety-five percent of the people...You were there...Were you there?...Ninety-five percent of the people were local."

The problem is that reporters who were there are reporting that Senator McConnell is not telling the truth.
McConnell's campaign is increasingly showing signs of lacking popular support.
The Republican Party has spent much of the month of October trying to bribe people to show up at McConnell's rallies.


Read more:
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/10/23/mitch-mcconnell-caught-disguise-paid-supporters-sound-crew.html

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Mitch McConnell Gets Caught Trying To Disguise His Paid Supporters As Sound Crew (Original Post) red dog 1 Oct 2014 OP
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR randys1 Oct 2014 #1
When you're used to having work offshored, you forget how to inshore enough workers. nt valerief Oct 2014 #2
But yet they're neck and neck Politicalboi Oct 2014 #3
Of shells and shills Blue Owl Oct 2014 #4
Fuck! How much more is it going to take to sink McTurtle? davidpdx Oct 2014 #5
"A reporter who asked Sen. McConnell about the paid supporters.... red dog 1 Oct 2014 #6

red dog 1

(27,797 posts)
6. "A reporter who asked Sen. McConnell about the paid supporters....
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 02:36 PM
Oct 2014

...was lied to and 'snapped at' by the reeling incumbent."

So I guess McConnell is a "snapping turtle"

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