Congratulations to the three elected officials—and the two appointees—in tight Senate races who recently secured tens of millions of dollars in DOT grants for their home states. Some received their grants after contacting Secretary Chao directly. (1)
Coincidentally, the campaigns of four of these Senators—Gardner, McConnell, McSally, and Tillis—received $50,000+ in independent expenditures from a McConnell-aligned Super PAC just before Trump’s Senate trial. (2) https://twitter.com/ex67t20/status/1220567093080469505
One director for that Super PAC is, coincidentally, Robert “Mike” Duncan, a longtime Kentucky political operative who voted to install Louis DeJoy as Postmaster General. (4) https://twitter.com/janemayernyer/status/1294663051535425543
Duncan’s son, coincidentally, is the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, whose nomination McConnell shepherded through confirmation. Duncan’s office prosecuted the father of McConnell’s 2014 opponent criminal campaign finance violations... (5) https://twitter.com/ex67t20/status/1302630534611378176
...based on an FEC complaint filed by the Republican Party of Kentucky when Mike Duncan, coincidentally, was a Party official. (6) https://twitter.com/ex67t20/status/1302418317685202946
https://restorepublictrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Chao-Kentucky-Contracts.pdf
The favoritism Secretary Chao has shown to her husband’s home state is well-documented. (7)
The favoritism Secretary Chao has shown to clients of her former “advisor on ports” is also well-documented. (8) https://twitter.com/ex67t20/status/1300636664080064512
But...

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...everything...

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...is...

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...coincidental...

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...I...

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...guess.

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More coincidences. https://twitter.com/ex67t20/status/1299775530179403779
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