It has been nearly six weeks since McConnell cast a vote in the Senate, just days before he was rushed to the hospital on June 14 by emergency responders.
The Daily Beast made multiple requests for information with the offices of all seven other members of the Kentucky delegation about whether the members of Congress had been in contact with McConnell or even bothered to reach out to the former Senate Majority Leader. Our questions were largely met with silence.
Only Rep. Andy Barr’s office responded and simply pointed to the congressman and GOP Senate nominee’s comments in Lexington one month ago, where he told reporters after an event in Lexington that he had exchanged text messages with McConnell. That was on June 21.
The offices of Paul along with Reps. James Comer, Brett Guthrie, Morgan McGarvey, Thomas Massie and Hal Rogers did not say whether they’d been in contact with the senator or his staff.
Beshear’s office confirmed with the Daily Beast on Tuesday that the governor has still not received “any communication whatsoever” from McConnell.
The Democratic governor and rising star in the party is now facing backlash for not going further by appointing a replacement or calling a special election amid McConnell’s radio silence.
Republicans would’ve have called a special election the moment a democrat senator got the sniffles, yet here we are
Makes you wonder if they’re all on the same team and 90% of everything you see is just for show, with one side always blaming the other side for everything wrong with the country, but most all of our government officials are getting huge amounts of money and free forever healthcare. Everyone is always concentrating on “it’s because of the dems\repubs that our government is fucking us” and never “our government is fucking us”. Always divided while the rich and powerful laugh their asses off.
McConnell would have skipped right ahead to appointing whoever the fuck was the most evil and compliant.
Gettin’ roasty, Moscow!