Just saw a story on CBS about Mitch McConnell

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19. Did the piece explain how McConnell became Chinese

Big Business's man in Congress? During the Tienanmen Square uprising, business became very alarmed that the U.S. was going to slap sanctions on China, so one very wealthy businessman in particular, a self-made shipping magnate, with a history of questionable doings, who had become an American citizen went looking for someone to represent his interests in Washington and was directed to Mitch McConnell, who already had an impressive reputation for effective influence peddling. He did so well that his name was passed around in China, and what followed has been a mutually extremely beneficial and lucrative partnership ever since.

McConnell's lifelong dream was to become Senate Majority leader, and he spent 30 years trading his vote for increasing power (most of it via donations of money he'd then use to get other people elected, who would then support him). And here he is. He gets reelected by the people he's spent 30 years betraying by spending whatever money it takes to bury those running against him under mountains of negative media. Those he serves make sure he never has a problem with money.

McConnell eventually married a very wealthy daughter of that first Chinese billionaire, Elaine Chao, herself an extremely ambitious hard-core conservative. She became Secretary of Labor under W and currently works for the Heritage Foundation, which is of course dedicated to both increasing the transfer of money and power to an ultrawealthy class and to destroying progressivism as a political force.

When they're not tending to their more publicized work, they're busy helping companies like Massey Energy get away with murder (including Chao as Labor Sec), one year in prison and some misdemeanor charges hardly justice for years of deadly and highly illegal practices. The tiny fines alone are proof in themselves of outrageous corruption. They are both really nasty, amoral pieces of work.

This article is about only one of the crimes they are complicit in, the Massey Energy coal slurry disaster--before it actually happened.
https://theoldspeakjournal.wordpress.com/2010/06/05/the-next-great-coal-spill-massey-energys-billion-gallon-disaster-in-waiting/

Spadaro believes the investigation was suppressed for two main reasons. Bush’s nominee for Secretary of Labor was Elaine Chao. Her husband, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), had just received a major campaign contribution through the Republican Senatorial Committee from Massey Energy.42 Spadaro alleges that Bush’s new political appointees were influencing the investigation in order to protect Massey Energy.43 Because the district MSHA office allegedly did not enforce the needed changes to the Martin County reservoir after the 1994 incident, top administrators within MSHA were also protecting MSHA from culpability.
http://www.ucsusa.org/our-work/center-science-and-democracy/promoting-scientific-integrity/coal-slurry-spill.html#.V0sZVFQrI1I