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Three years after defeating Hollenbach, though, McConnell, amid accusations of infidelity, got divorced himself. He soon began searching for a new spouse. Keith Runyon, Meme’s husband and a former editorial-page editor of the liberal Louisville Courier-Journal, vividly recalls him showing up at their house for dinner badly sunburned after a day of campaigning at a fish fry. McConnell, who has limited patience for such glad-handing, confided a plan. Runyon recalls him saying, “One of the things I’ve got to do is to marry a rich woman, like John Sherman Cooper did.” Runyon added, “Boy, did he ever.”
McConnell’s spokesman disputes Runyon’s account, but, in 1993, McConnell married Elaine Chao, an heiress, who is currently serving as Trump’s Secretary of Transportation. McConnell devotes a chapter of his autobiography to “Love,” describing how he and Chao, who emigrated from Taiwan as a child, are “kindred spirits.” He explains, “We both knew the feeling of not fitting in, and had worked long and hard in order to prove ourselves.” Chao graduated from Harvard Business School, ran the Peace Corps, served as President George W. Bush’s Labor Secretary, and has been a director on such influential boards as those of Bloomberg Philanthropies and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. She also brought a sizable fortune into McConnell’s life. Her father, James Chao, is the founder and chairman of the Foremost Group, a family-owned maritime shipping company, based in New York, which reportedly sends seventy per cent of its freight to China.
This sounds like fake news to me - McConnell is doing a great job, in my view.
Well, if you read the article, you might learn why so many people are contemptuous of him. Or you could just start with his breathtaking hypocrisy about the Garland-Barrett SCOTUS nominations.
Well, if you read the article, you might learn why so many people are contemptuous of him. Or you could just start with his breathtaking hypocrisy about the Garland-Barrett SCOTUS nominations.
McConnell's actions stopped the breathtaking Democrat liberal hypocrisy from harming America, and that's good enough for me!
Well, if you read the article, you might learn why so many people are contemptuous of him. Or you could just start with his breathtaking hypocrisy about the Garland-Barrett SCOTUS nominations.
She just married him cause her family is making lots of money off the connection. Took one for the team.
Elaine Chao is a very accomplished conservative women, she's been involved in politics since the Bush era in '91. She quite after the Jan 6 insurrection so I guess she's a RINO now.
I respectfully disagree with you on that - women probably found him attractive more due to his power than his money, IMHO.
As Henry Kissinger once said: “Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.”
Will Mitch was young once. He only started to look the way he does now about 10 years ago, then really aged over the last 5 years as most Senators did.
However, I think you mistaneking his first wife for Elaine Chao. He was poor when he married Sherill Redmon. He actually married up when he married Elaine.
But nonetheless, Sherill probably has some good dirt on him. Apparently, after helping him through school he cheated on her which is part of the reason why she divorced him.
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