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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBlankenship goes after McConnell's 'China family' in new ad
Source: Politico
Blankenship goes after McConnells China family in new ad
By ALEX ISENSTADT 05/03/2018 05:25 PM EDT Updated 05/03/2018 07:01 PM EDT
West Virginia GOP Senate hopeful Don Blankenship is amping up his racial attacks on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell with a new ad declaring, Swamp captain Mitch McConnell has created millions of jobs for China people.
While doing so, Mitch has gotten rich, Blankenship adds. In fact, his China family has given him tens of millions of dollars.
McConnells wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, was born in Taiwan and her parents are Chinese. Her father is chairman of a shipping company.
The new spot, which is expected to start airing on Friday, comes just ahead of the May 8 primary. As the dramatic contest comes to a close, Blankenship, a former coal baron who spent a year in prison following the 2010 explosion at his Upper Big Branch Mine that killed 29 workers, has focused his assault squarely on McConnell sometimes in harshly racial terms.
During a recent interview with POLITICO, Blankenship said McConnell has a lot of connections in China. He also said that Chao is from China, so we have to be really concerned that we are in truth putting Americas interests first.
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By ALEX ISENSTADT 05/03/2018 05:25 PM EDT Updated 05/03/2018 07:01 PM EDT
West Virginia GOP Senate hopeful Don Blankenship is amping up his racial attacks on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell with a new ad declaring, Swamp captain Mitch McConnell has created millions of jobs for China people.
While doing so, Mitch has gotten rich, Blankenship adds. In fact, his China family has given him tens of millions of dollars.
McConnells wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, was born in Taiwan and her parents are Chinese. Her father is chairman of a shipping company.
The new spot, which is expected to start airing on Friday, comes just ahead of the May 8 primary. As the dramatic contest comes to a close, Blankenship, a former coal baron who spent a year in prison following the 2010 explosion at his Upper Big Branch Mine that killed 29 workers, has focused his assault squarely on McConnell sometimes in harshly racial terms.
During a recent interview with POLITICO, Blankenship said McConnell has a lot of connections in China. He also said that Chao is from China, so we have to be really concerned that we are in truth putting Americas interests first.
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Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/03/blankenship-mcconnell-china-568305
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Blankenship goes after McConnell's 'China family' in new ad (Original Post)
Eugene
May 2018
OP
Raster
(20,998 posts)1. Pass the popcorn...
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lordsummerisle
(4,651 posts)2. China people?
ecstatic
(32,704 posts)3. deplorable vs even more deplorable
Such disgusting people!
tanyev
(42,558 posts)4. Same Don Blankenship that has a Chinese fiancee and wanted Chinese citizenship?
That Don Blankenship?
Blankenship's own fiancee, Farrah Meiling Hobbs, was born in China and moved to the United States in 1996, The New York Times reported this week.
The newspaper also highlighted Blankenship's comments during his trial, from an interview recorded in 2009, in which he said he was considering moving to China, calling the country's "dictatorial capitalism" "very effective" and saying he'd opened a bank account there.
"I'm actually considering moving to China or somewhere and being more like George Washington if I can get citizenship," he said in the 2009 interview. "I can probably get citizenship in India. I'd rather be in China."
The newspaper also highlighted Blankenship's comments during his trial, from an interview recorded in 2009, in which he said he was considering moving to China, calling the country's "dictatorial capitalism" "very effective" and saying he'd opened a bank account there.
"I'm actually considering moving to China or somewhere and being more like George Washington if I can get citizenship," he said in the 2009 interview. "I can probably get citizenship in India. I'd rather be in China."
http://www.wlfi.com/content/national/480818701.html
Rhiannon12866
(205,355 posts)5. Stephen Colbert weighed in on this (again):
Profiles In Discourage: Blankenship's 'Cocaine Mitch' Ad