Posted on 01/24/2014 6:25:29 AM PST by cotton1706
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has got a big, big lead over his Tea Party-backed primary challenger, Matt Bevin.
Yet according to Bevin, that hardly means the longtime incumbent is going easy on the Republican businessman who’s trying to replace him.
In an interview with Politico, Bevin alleges that political operatives who once offered to support him have repeatedly withdrawn their offers. And Bevin thinks he knows why.
“I’ve had people who’ve said, ‘You can use our donor list’ or ‘I’ll come on with the campaign,’” Bevin told Politico. “Then all of a sudden they change their minds.”
Bevin says that some have told him they were warned not to go against McConnell and told that, if they did, their job with the Bevin campaign would be “the last job you ever have in this business.”
“It is thuggery,” Bevin says. “It’s literally like something out of Tammany Hall. It’s dusting off Boss Tweed. I say, bring it on.”
McConnell, meanwhile, has made a point of all but ignoring Bevin in his public remarks. Asked by Politico if he’d like to comment on his Republican challenger, McConnell’s response was terse and simple: “I don’t.”
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
Seems like a few in talk radio have gotten the threats too
McConnell is in deep political trouble. He knows it
I’m in pretty much the same boat as Bevin here in Iowa as I ramp up to challenge our incumbent Republican governor in the June 3rd primary.
The Iowa GOP is even violating its own rules by fully and openly endorsing Branstad.
The GOPe is playing hardball this time around, folks, and they have amassed a huge warchest to crush us.
Send RINOs packing time!!! Add Boner to the list.
The GOPe is playing hardball this time around, folks, and they have amassed a huge warchest to crush us.
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Too bad the Republicans won’t play hardball against their Democrat opponents or fight against their destructive policies.
De-fund the GOP.
It's also a little like Dukes of Hazzard.
It's dusting off Boss Hogg...
“Thuggery”? Isn’t that racist now? So hard to keep track sometimes.
Didn't know that McConnell was black.
KY people believe in McC, but no one knows why.
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