The battle for Mitch McConnell's Senate seat has been heating up lately and the election isn't for a year and a half! There is a lot of talk about Ashley Judd running against him and she could actually have a shot. Senator McConnell's poll numbers are not the greatest right now. He has the worst numbers of any serving Senator with only 37% approval and 55% disapproval among Kentucky voters. A poll was done of potential match ups for the 2014 race and Ashley Judd has the closest race, probably a lot to do with name recognition.
If the candidates for Senate in 2014 were
Republican Mitch McConnell and Democrat
Ashley Judd, who would you vote for?
Mitch McConnell ............................................. 47%
Ashley Judd .................................................... 43%
Not sure .......................................................... 10%
Progress Kentucky, a progressive group, has been hammering Sen. McConnell on outsourcing. They have dedicated themselves to unseating Sen. McConnell.
He is married to former Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao who is of Chinese decent. She was born in Taiwan after her family fled the mainland during the Chinese Civil War. On February 14th, Progress Kentucky stepped over the line when they released the following tweet suggesting that it is McConnell's wife's fault that jobs have moved overseas.
This woman has the ear of @mcconnellpress — she’s his #wife.May explain why your job moved to #China! rense.com/general77/raci…
— Progress Kentucky (@ProgressKy) February 14, 2013
This is way over the line, not to mention completely ridiculous. She served as Secretary of Labor for the United States, not China. I am sure she is not trying to get her husband to move jobs to China.
Progress Kentucky spokesman Curtis Morrison said on the issue: “It’s not an official statement. It’s a Tweet. And we will remove it if it’s wrong.” Almost two weeks went by and it had not been taken down. That's when ThinkProgress got involved. Pressed to retract their tweet and issue an apology, Progress Kentucky had this to say: “Senator Mitch McConnell has a conflict of interest that many are afraid to talk about, and Progress Kentucky is not.” His wife's heritage is not a conflict of interest. It is an interesting anecdote on the American Dream, nothing more.
Progress Kentucky has finally issued an apology, according to ThinkProgress, yesterday.
Progress Kentucky, you're better than this. You are a progressive group and progressives hate when things like this happen. If it was American's for Prosperity or any other conservative group that posted something this stupid, you would have been all over them immediately. You're liberals. And Liberals should hold themselves to a higher standard on things like this. Practice what you preach. I oppose Sen. McConnell too, of course, but there are much better ways to make your point than that.
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