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Democratic strategist erases Twitter account after remarks about McConnell's wife
Fox News ^ | 8/4/2014

Posted on 08/07/2014 10:15:25 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat

WASHINGTON – A Democratic operative deleted her Twitter account Monday following a series of what some called racist remarks about Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao.

Chao, former U.S. Labor Secretary under President George W. Bush, is Asian.

Kathy Groob, who describes herself as an “advocate for women in politics,” sent a series of tweets related to Chao at a political event Saturday.

According to WKMS, Groob sent the tweets in response to comments McConnell made at the event, in which he referred to his wife as "the only Kentucky woman who served in a president’s cabinet."

In one tweet Groob wrote, “Hey Mitch, nothing against you wife and spouses should be off limits; since you mentioned, she isn’t from KY, she is Asian.”

Groob followed that tweet with another: “Google Elaine Chao, #MitchMcConnell’s wife. No mention of Kentucky, she is Asian” Groop wrote.

Her racially-charged comments drew a firestorm on Twitter from people who questioned why Groob was pushing a narrative that someone who is Asian could not also be from Kentucky.

In Chao's case, she and her family came to the U.S. from Taiwan when she was a child. She has been married to McConnell for more than two decades.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: chao; grimes; lundergan; mcconnell

1 posted on 08/07/2014 10:15:25 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

I love a Democrat pooch screw early in the morning.


2 posted on 08/07/2014 10:19:46 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Republican Wildcat
Groob, who describes herself as an “advocate for women in politics

I am Groob!


3 posted on 08/07/2014 10:22:22 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Interestingly (or not), Groob seems to have taken down her homepage the same time. I went to http://kathygroob.com/ , and all that came up was the webhoster’s page. A quick look at the cached version, though, shows her page was up as of 8/4/14 (Monday).

Guess ol’ Kathy is feeling the heat, eh?


4 posted on 08/07/2014 10:23:25 PM PDT by DemforBush (Six o'clock in *Berlin*. They were having lunch in Cleveland.)
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To: DemforBush

Bump


5 posted on 08/07/2014 10:27:22 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Resist in place.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Drunk tweeting strikes again.


6 posted on 08/07/2014 10:30:45 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Republican Wildcat

I actually don’t see anything wrong with the tweets.


7 posted on 08/07/2014 10:32:08 PM PDT by steve86 ( Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: steve86

Asian can’t be from Kentucky?


8 posted on 08/07/2014 10:33:34 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Republican Wildcat

The RINOs Rat-Friends trash talked his wife?


9 posted on 08/07/2014 10:40:06 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: Republican Wildcat
“Google Elaine Chao, #MitchMcConnell’s wife. No mention of Kentucky, she is Asian”

Explains why he's 90 degrees off kilter.

With this phony bastard as Majority leader, the Senate will go right back to the same rules as before the corrupt cultist mobbed up scumbag Reid kicked the GOP's ass up and down the block.

11 posted on 08/08/2014 1:04:24 AM PDT by Rome2000 (Elimination of the Federal Judiciary other than the SCOTUS is but a Pen and Phone away)
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To: Republican Wildcat

There’s nothing racist about that! But since they rip normal people over nothing, the bastard needs to be criticized, just as they would do to Republicans.


12 posted on 08/08/2014 4:13:41 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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