I didn’t realize Mitch McConnell was such a numbers guy.
I’m also a numbers guy—LET’S TALK SOME NUMBERS.
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I’m also a numbers guy—LET’S TALK SOME NUMBERS.
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fec.gov/data/receipts/…
Number of dollars J. Todd Inman contributed to McConnell-affiliated committees during the 2014 cycle:
3,100
Number of dollars J. Todd Inman contributed to McConnell-affiliated committees during the 2014 cycle:
3,100
Number of federal tax dollars J. Todd Inman is paid as Elaine Chao’s Chief of Staff:
160,000+
160,000+
Number of dollars Neil Gorsuch’s friend Philip Anschutz gave McConnell-affiliated Senate Leadership Fund on the day before McConnell killed Garland’s nomination:
500,000
500,000
Number of dollars Philip Anschutz gave Senate Leadership Fund one month before Federalist Society advisor Elaine Chao had dinner with Neil Gorsuch and Judiciary Committee member @JohnCornyn:
250,000
250,000
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Known number of times Elaine Chao and/or her deputy, (now DAG Rosen) met or communicated with Senate Leadership Fund’s CEO, Steven Law, in the days before Alabama’s special election:
4
Known number of times Elaine Chao and/or her deputy, (now DAG Rosen) met or communicated with Senate Leadership Fund’s CEO, Steven Law, in the days before Alabama’s special election:
4
Number of dollars Elaine Chao’s sister Christine—the wife of Mitch and Elaine’s hedge fund manager—gave to Kentuckians For Strong Leadership (Steven Law was a board member, and all expenditures were made against McConnell’s 2014 opponent):
400,000
400,000
Value of Tesla stock held by the hedge fund (Electron Capital Partners) managed by McConnell’s brother in law, as of February 24, 2017:
$50,367,000
$50,367,000
Value of Electron Capital’s Tesla holdings, as of May 15, 2017—two weeks before Trump’s Paris Agreement pullout speech, after which Elon Musk left a Trump advisory board in disgust:
$0
$0
Number of new shipping holdings in Electron Capital’s portfolio, just before a $43B Alaska LNG deal was inked during Trump’s visit to China:
4
(Note: Golar LNG holdings were also boosted.)
4
(Note: Golar LNG holdings were also boosted.)
Value of Vulcan Materials holdings in Electron Capital’s portfolio, as of February 2019:
$10,831,000
$10,831,000
Value of Electron Capital’s Vulcan Materials holdings, as of May 2019–while Elaine Chao was holding onto Vulcan stocks that she claimed she’d divested from:
$23,371,000
$23,371,000
Value of Electron Capital’s Sempra Energy holdings, as of February 2019:
$55,838,000
$55,838,000
Value of Electron Capital’s Sempra Energy holdings, as of May 2019—just prior to Trump’s visit to Sempra’s Cameron, Louisiana facilities:
$87,103,000
$87,103,000
Amount of financing Elaine Chao’s father’s shipping company received in 2015 from China ExIm Bank—a partner of sanctioned Vnesheconombank:
$37,500,000
$37,500,000
Enough McConnell-related numbers for now. Citations/links on request.
Number of years since McConnell contacted Brett Kavanaugh regarding a shortened timeframe for debate on nominees:
16
16
Number of relatives of Mitch McConnell serving on the Bank of China board of directors:
1
1
sss.tsinghua.edu.cn/publish/sssen/…
Number of speeches to a People’s Republic of China-controlled university that Elaine Chao failed to disclose in her written nomination testimony:
1
Number of speeches to a People’s Republic of China-controlled university that Elaine Chao failed to disclose in her written nomination testimony:
1
globaltimes.cn/content/948661…
Number of private meetings Elaine Chao held with a former chair of the United Front Work Department:
1
Number of private meetings Elaine Chao held with a former chair of the United Front Work Department:
1
Number of Chinese Communist Party United Front Work Department affiliated Confucius Center “inaugurations” attended by Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao:
1
1
