• Mitch McConnell hopes support of hemp will help him win reelection in 2020
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https://www.mcclatchydc.com/latest-news/article222995730.html Mitch McConnell acknowledges he’ll be one of national Democrats’ top targets in 2020 when he runs for reelection. But he’ll boast an unusual tool on the campaign trail: His success at reviving hemp, a one-time Kentucky cash crop. “There’s no question when you run for office you talk about the differences you think you made,” the Kentucky Republican told McClatchy in an interview, minutes after he offered Wednesday on the Senate floor to loan President Donald Trump his “hemp pen” to sign the legalization effort into law. McConnell, who has made legalizing hemp a priority, is certain to make it a plank of his pitch to voters in a year that Democrats are likely to be consumed by trying to oust Trump and McConnell, an important White House ally. Never widely popular at home, McConnell has at time faced tough campaigns and launched his bid for a seventh term in the Senate over the summer, with supporters noting he believes “you can start too late, but never too early.” He has already raised nearly $5.5 million. Kentucky is likely to see a preview of McConnell’s hemp campaign in 2019 when Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles runs for re-election. Quarles was in Washington for the Senate bill passage and said it “demonstrates that hemp is no longer a novelty but a serious crop that will unleash economic opportunity for our farmers.” His 2020 campaign chairman, Jonathan Shell, said McConnell’s success with hemp “reiterates to Kentucky and to voters that when you want something done in Washington, you go to McConnell and he sets his mind to it. There’s not much that he can’t get done.”
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how do you do, fellow hemp farmers?
You're doing it wrong.
What if the Democrat supports hemp too?
Sadly, he's actually doing it right if he's trying to appeal to racist white Kentuckians. His position helps out all the rural farmers, and human consumption of pot is still illegal, so you can still take voting rights away from the negroes for life for being caught with a single sliver of weed.
How about you just give up, you worthless trash muppet.
Turtle of all people switching to less conservative fews makes me think he's starting to feel the heat
he'll be reelected because there's nobody in kentucky who will run against him. They certainly don't seem to have any stable of candidates given they elect rand paul the least productive senator and have reelected mitch for the last 30 years.
So he wants to legalize industrial hemp but not marijuana? Just legalize both ffs
cant put the dindus into the jail if weed gets made legal
We really don't have anyone to oppose McConnel, and bringing hemp back would be a major boom to the dying tobacco industry in the state. He knows what hes doing.
Afaik Mitch wasn't always a monster, he's just been in politics way too long and has learned how to play the game really well, including what rules can be broken.
“demonstrates that hemp is no longer a novelty but a serious crop that will unleash economic opportunity for our farmers.” When was hemp a novelty? It was one of our most important textile crops until cannabis law was pushed in the 1920s...
no if you follow his career he's been an opportunist and a sell out since very narrowly being elected to begin with. He'd sell his wife if it got him reelected.
You can hope for that and I can keep hoping you have a run in with a rogue satellite falling out of orbit.
Pay for my ounce a week and we'll talk.
You mean you're not actually asking McConnell to buy you an ounce of weed a week?
Totally the wrong guy, @Daddy-of-war ask Chuck Grassley https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/529356795924725760
Considering he was on of the two pioneers alongside Gingrich of getting lobbyists able to A not be called lobbyists and B use unlimited "discretionary" funds for PACs, he's doing it right and has been for over thirty years. That's a joke, right? He's the textbook definition of power mongering literal good ol boy sociopath. Like the actual picture in the dictionary.
So.....a Monster?
Come on, he's old, historically unpopular, and uncharismatic. Where's Kentucky's Beto O'Rourke?
this man is in his mid 70s, why the fuck are old cunts in charge when they are so out of touch.
South Carolina's Strom Thurmond got reelected at 94
McConnell is so far behind the times that if you stepped on his toes he probably wouldn't feel it for another six years.
make that sixty.
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