Mitch McConnell Wins, May Not Hold
Mitch McConnell may have won the 2014 election against Alison Grimes, but will it hold due to his recent involvement in voter fraud and connections to a ship holding 40 kilograms of cocaine?
Days before the election, Alison Grimes pressed charges against Mitch McConnell for two counts of voter fraud. In a statement to the public on her website, AlisonForKY.com, Grimes explained that Mitch McConnell had released mailers to three counties in Eastern Kentucky that contained the words “Election Violation Notice” and warned on the outside of the envelope that “you are at risk of acting on fraudulent information.”
However, the Louisville, Kentucky newspaper, The Courier-Journal, published the day before Election Day that at least one of these fraud charges against Mitch McConnell would not hold.
“Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd has rejected Alison Lundergan Grimes’ request for an injunction against the state Republican Party, prohibiting the group from disseminating mailers purporting to be notifications of ‘election violations.'”
The author of the article in the Courier-Journal went on to say,
“In fact, the mailer doesn’t allege any violation of election law and is simply an attack ad against Grimes. The Grimes campaign has said the mailer has prompted concern among some who received it that they could be in violation of election law if they vote.”
Judge Shepherd will still make a ruling about whether or not the mailing has any factual basis but says that he does not have the ability to stop the Republican Party from sending out those types of mailers, according to U.S. Supreme Court decisions.
“Regardless or the merits of the Plantiff’s claim that the speech in question is false, misleading and deceptive, this Court lacks jurisdiction to impose prior restraint on the freedom of speech.”
To get a better idea of what kind of materials are being posted, BradBlog.com obtained copies of the alleged mailers that started the Mitch McConnell voter scandal and posted photos of them online.
If the voter fraud charges do not hold, there is still the matter of cocaine to portend with. According to Politicus.com, Mitch McConnell is accused of being connected to a company that owns a ship that had 40 kilograms (estimated at $60+ million) of cocaine. If the accusations are connected to him, then Mitch McConnell will be dealing with the fallout of the investigation when the authorities are finished doing their work.
Obviously, if the cocaine charges stick, Mitch McConnell may be banned from holding public office and forced to resign as Senator. It is also apparent that if Mitch McConnell is brought up on cocaine charge, the idea of Jon Stewart’s ‘McConnelling’ will have a chance to be further evaluated and defined.
For a complete list of how Mitch McConnell has voted in the past, consult VoteSmart.org.
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