The McConnell Machine

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  • THE MCCONNELL MACHINE

    Bates' ride from driver to gatekeeper

    Sen. Mitch McConnell is famously close-lipped, but not with Gordon Hunter Bates. Barbara Kucera, a University of Kentucky researcher, occasionally talks to Bates about millions of federal dollars McConnell is steering toward a project she shares with Louisville company eCavern.

  • THE MCCONNELL MACHINE

    Wedded to free trade in China

    When Sen. Mitch McConnell married Elaine Chao in 1993, he got more than a wife — he got a river of campaign donations from her family and friends in the Chinese-American business community.

  • THE MCCONNELL MACHINE

    Two for the money

    Millionaire coal magnate Bob Murray knew the name to drop in September 2002, when Mine Safety Health Administration inspectors confronted him about safety problems at his mines: Sen. Mitch McConnell. Murray, a large man with a fierce temper, is a huge donor to Republican senators. McConnell, R-Ky...

  • THE MCCONNELL MACHINE

    Get cash-sniffing hounds to find Mitch

    — all the way back to 1984.

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