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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMcConnell loans his campaign $1.8 million
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell plans to counter the influx of Democratic spending aimed at defeating him by writing a big personal check.
The Republican leader is loaning his campaign $1.8 million out of his own bank account, exceeding a $1.5 million investment by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and Senate Majority PAC to bolster the prospects of Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes.
A McConnell campaign official told POLITICO Friday that his boss is making the donation because he has long said that the National Republican Senatorial Committee should spend money in other hotly contested races not his own.
Sen. McConnell has maintained a longstanding personal commitment to his members that he wont draw any resources from the team, said John Ashbrook, McConnells spokesman. So hes going to match Obamas money men out of his own pocket.
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/mitch-mcconnell-18-million-check-112195.html#ixzz3H7Y6ZIbp
strategery blunder
(4,225 posts)Or at least try to.
RandySF
(58,772 posts)MiniMe
(21,714 posts)peace13
(11,076 posts)...man that has got to hurt. I'm not certain that extra exposure will help!
lpbk2713
(42,753 posts)It's not like he's ever had a real job. He's been a career politician
most of his life, where would he get that kind of money?
Never mind. I know the answer to that one.