Wedded to free trade in China | The McConnell Machine |

[Leo 9]

Right wing media talked China bashing last week, yet somehow missed mentioning this concerning their Sen. Minority Leader.


Wedded to free trade in China | The McConnell Machine | Kentucky.com
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When Sen. Mitch McConnell married Elaine Chao in 1993, he got more than a wife he got a river of campaign donations from her family and friends in the Chinese-American business community.

Some people think that might affect his views on China, the world’s other superpower.

Eight days after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, where China’s communist regime crushed a nascent democracy movement, McConnell collected his first $8,000 from the Taiwanese-born Chao, then just a friend, and her family.

The Chao family is headed by James Chao, founder of Foremost Maritime Corp., a shipping company in New York that benefits from Chinese trade. It buys cargo vessels from China.

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[Angry Dragon]

1. Congress people are free to do insider trading

and not subject to conflict of interest
because they are so much more moral than
the common man.

[rurallib]

2. McConnell is a scuz of the first order posing as a turtle

turtles should be mad as hell