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NBC News projects that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will win his Senate seat in Kentucky against Amy McGrath. Aired on 11/03/2020.
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@karatandstone6007
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
They chose death. They get what they deserve. No fema for KY!!!!
@jamez.b.d6163
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
McConnell Won I disappointed in Kentucky 😒
@thomasmoriarty7881
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
The Dark Side of Mitch McConnell
Here are the basic, very skimpy facts: Mitch McConnell was classified 2-S ("Registrant deferred due to activity in study") on August 8th, 1962, and remained as such until May 4th, 1967.
(Source: HillBilly Reports which is Mitch McConnell's home town newspaper.)
He enlisted in either March 1967 or in July 1967 and served at Fort Knox in the 100th Division (Training) of the U.S. Army Reserve until August 15, 1967. He was assigned Selective Service number 15-131-42-44.
Addison M. McConnell, Jr., reported for duty as instructed, possibly in April or May, 1967. After that, though, things get murky. Convoluted explanations, obfuscations, outright denials, ("Senator McConnell had polio as a child and he never served in armed services.” said Robert Steurer, press secretary for McConnell in Washington. “I am not aware of him ever serving.”) and a strange little bombshell–maybe–below the arabesque.
Hillbilly Report
Feb. 13, 2007
Kentucky Kernel Article, dated November 1, 1996.
Senator’s Discharge Questioned
By Chris Padgett
News Editor
A letter found in the UK Library Department of Special Collections of a request from a former U.S. Senator to the then commanding general of Fort Knox created conflicting stories Thursday about the military record of Republican U. S. Sen. Mitch McConnell.
The letter was found in the personal letters of U. S. Sen. John Sherman Cooper, a Republican from Kentucky. it was written to Maj. Gen. A. D. Surles, commanding general of Fort Knox. McConnell served as an intern in Coopers Washington, DC. office in summer of 1964. He was in boot camp at Ft. Knox and a member of the 100th Division of the U.S. Army Reserve.
The letter was dated August 10, 1967, during a time when U.S. troops were being sent to Vietnam for combat duty.
In the letter, Cooper advises the major general that ‘Mitchell anxious to clear post in order to enroll NYU. Please advise when final action can he expected.”
According to the Registrar’s Office at New York University, no record exists that McConnell ever applied or enrolled for classes at that university. McConnell attended UK and earned a law degree in 1967 before he enlisted in the Army reserve.
While waiting for the release from active military duty McConnell's Army Reserve Unit was serving it's summer active duty at Ft. Jackson, South Carolina. Instead of following military procedure that would transfer McConnell from the training unit back to the Army Reserve Unit, McConnell was released from military service directly from the training unit by the Commanding General of Ft. Knox. This is a direct violation of military procedure and would only occur in the most critical circumstances.
What raises questions is a copy of a telegram sent from the office of Senator John Sherman Cooper to Commanding General A.D. Surles of Ft. Knox to speed the release of Private McConnell.
A computer replica of the document follows on the next page. You can obtain a copy of the document at the University of Kentucky, Margaret I. King Library, Special Collections, Lexington, Kentucky 40506.
The reference for the document is as follows:
John Sherman Cooper Papers
Senatorial Series II 1956-72
Office Copy File from 1967
Box 792
Army (hold)
McConnell,Mitchell
COPY
AUGUST 10, 1967
MAJOR GENERAL A. D. SURLES
COMMANDING GENERAL
FORT KNOX, KENTUCKY
PVT MITCHELL MCCONNELL, ER 15 767 802, BEING MEDICALLY DISCHARGED YOUR STATION OPTIC NEURITIS. PAPERS IN OFFICE
SPECIALIST HUMMER, COLONEL FLETCHER BATTALION CO. MITCHELL ANXIOUS TO CLEAR POST IN ORDER TO ENROLL NYU. PLEASE ADVISE WHEN FINAL ACTION CAN BE EXPECTED.
JOHN SHERMAN COOPER, USS
OFFICIAL
DAY LETTER
KSF
And now for the possibly sordid part!
The missing part of the story-?
Alan Lynch, a Lexington Postal Clerk, served in the 100th Army Reserve Unit, Louisville, Kentucky. He was in another unit in 1964 but the Army did a consolidation of units and he was transferred to the 100th in 1965 or 1966. He performed several duties while he served in the military as a postal clerk and personnel officer. Mr. Lynch has a remarkable story about the summer of 1967.
The summary of the story is as follows:
In the summer of 1967 Lynch reported for his summer active duty in the 100th Training Unit Army Reserve. The Unit did their summer active duty at Ft. Jackson, South Carolina. Lynch worked for S-1, the administrative arm of any army unit. Lynch worked for a Major, who was the assistant Adjutant and new to the unit. During his active duty in August of 1967 Lynch remembers coming into the office and noticed that the Major was upset. He asked him what was going on and the Major told him the following:
A new member of the 100th Army Reserve Unit in Basic Training at Ft. Knox was arrested in the barracks for sodomy. The guy is getting out of the military and the excuse will be due to an illness, an eye disorder. The Major then told a joke about it saying, "I guess the guy couldn't see the difference between guys and girls."
Lynch asked him how this guy could accomplish this and get a release from the army. The Major told him that the soldier had served as an intern to Senator John Sherman Cooper and Senator Cooper called the Commanding General of Ft. Knox to arrange the discharge.
At the time the Major told Lynch the name of the soldier but the name didn't stick to his brain. Lynch said frankly it was not important at the time because the name McConnell meant nothing to him. It was not until the issue was raised in McConnell's senate race of 1990 that he remembered the incident. Lynch provided the information to reporters with the Courier Journal and Herald Leader but they did nothing with it because they didn't have any real evidence. They only have the story of Lynch.
McConnell has been able to brush this whole thing off as a tempest in a teapot.
@PresidentialnurseFuturenurse
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
Lol Kentucky’s a dump, yet they still keep electing Moscow Mitch😂🤦♂️
@zacharykim5596
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
Is it just me but why are Kentuckians good at committing suicide?
@Spanishdog17
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
This proves that Kentucky has low scores in education.
@fatface2911
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
At least he's minority leader
@mokokoco4720
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
Now the people of Kentucky are hitting themselves after he denied the 2k stimulus check to a lot of Americans. Smh
@tkama2102
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
Well, in fairness, over 500k people in Kentucky DIDN'T vote for him so to them I say you're the change this continent needs.
@G1freelancedigitalproject75
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
China Mitch McConnell. you're a Traitor to the American people!
@dyroestube2004
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
This devil didn't win. Voter fraud. Ain't noway
@emperorpalpatine2531
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
Why do people always vote for people who don’t represent their best interests
@jimanderson2309
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
Who’s the lesbian who lost to Mitch ?
@apieceofhair8449
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
How does Kentucky let this turtle WIN?
@cindyweir9645
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
Masochistic Kentucky voted their abuser psychopath, Mitch back in. 🤬
Elijaha Andre
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
Don’t forget people Mitch McConnell refuse to pass the stimulus package & the eviction start @ the end of December in Kentucky because of Mitch McConnell
@AT-pb9ln
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
WTF Kentucky??? This despicable Mitch McConnell is one of the problem for Americans. What’s wrong Kentucky people??? Vote this piece of 💩 out out out
@annbarth8481
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
Don't let him use use our four father world and nation for his cult
@rodneyabrams6094
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
I was Wanting you to lose!!!!
@warrior7350
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
AWESOME!!!!!
@Jsimms1324
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
“Mitch McConnell will be leading the Democrats.” 😎
@jowannejackson8423
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
Can't believe they voted in this old fossil again… what a shame
@javihart4216
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
Rachel Maddow looks like she smells bad all the time
@rogersakey8969
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
No i will not blow you, am i the only one who hears him say that at the end?
@Lucas-dc4zw
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
Liberal tears😂😂😂😂😂😂
@robertduchaine6169
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
Red wave coming #fact
@Dianne615
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
I don't believe this! In my heart, I don't know how but I believe some way this man is cheating
@manuel0578
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
Love Mitch!
@stephss
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
This is beyond disappointing. I am dumbfounded this guy still has the opportunity to stall progress.
@theguardianofthelight9292
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
Kentucky is a republican state they been inhaling those McConnell snake oil for years what a bunch of big Dummy’s supporting an evil person like him.
@Saiputera
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
Msnbc,cnn, new York times etc.. propandaga doesn't work anymore 🤣🤣🤣
@brianbowman90
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
This is the stupidest people in the USA!!! Unbelievable that these idiots actually think that Moscow Mitch has done anything for them in the past or doing anything in the future but get rich off of them. Idiots!!! Smfh
@rodneyadamshortnacy40
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
Ha.
@MegaShrinkage
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
If, after six terms of nothing, you elect McConnell for a seventh, Kentucky deserves the gutter…. Un ff-ing believable…
@aliciao.5731
January 19, 2024 at 5:58 pm
Very dissapointing if McConnel wins.