The Resistance: Confronting Mitch
Protesters outside, sharp questions inside.
Mitch McConnell expected the protesters outside the Republican-friendly luncheon in heavily Republican Anderson County. He didn’t expect what he found inside the American Legion hall.The questions from the $10-a-plate crowd, which heard the Senate Majority Leader offer his usual defense of the Trump administration and the GOP-led Senate, were not gentle.At one point, a frustrated audience member implored him: “Answer the question, Mitch!” after he offered a curt answer to a woman asking about lost coal jobs in Eastern Kentucky.As he began leaving the event, escorted by state and local law enforcement, a few in the crowd booed. Someone shouted “Do your job.”Al Cross, the director of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues at the University of Kentucky and a veteran political reporter, said it’s unusual for McConnell to be put in that kind of position at in-state events.“Typically, when he goes out and does these town halls, they’re not widely announced,” he said.
This
wasn't a town hall. It was a $10-dollar a plate fundraiser, and the
fucking coward brought a battalion of local and state police to protect
him from elderly and disabled constituents.
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