Dylan Ratigan just reported that..

[butterfly77]

Mitch McCOnnell has taken almost ONE MILLION DOLLARS from executives at Toyota. Does McConnell does he have a Toyota in Kentucky?

[upi402]

1. Dylan Ratigan a great!

His studio needs some audio dampening tho


k/r

[madmax]

2. I believe I read same in The Nation.

The article compared the Ethics Committee investigation of Charlie Rangel and not Mitch McConnell.

[TheDebbieDee]

3. Doesn't Toyota have a plant in Kentucky, too?

[PBS Poll-435]

4. Yep. The majority of Camrys sold in the US, all Avalons, and the Venza

Are made in Georgetown, KY.

[butterfly77]

6. I think the same is going on with..

Shelby(Al)they said something about he has millions and he didn't want to save US companies because he is being paid by Toyota or one of the other foreign companies..

[OregonBlue]

5. Here's the salon CREW article:

According to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which has named both Rangel and McConnell to its annual lists of the "most corrupt" legislators, the list of donors to the McConnell Center was kept hidden by university administrators. When the Louisville Courier-Journal sued to obtain the names of those donors, the Kentucky Supreme Court handed down a curious decision. Future donors to the center would have to be revealed, the court ruled in August 2008, but 62 past donors could remain anonymous.

But thanks to the newspaper's diligent reporting, names of several of the bigger donors have emerged over the past several years. They include Toyota, which gave $833,000 to the McConnell Center and considers the Kentucky senator among its main Washington assets during its current crisis; RJ Reynolds and Phillip Morris, which gave $150,000 and $450,000, respectively, and which know they can count on him as a staunch backer of tobacco interests; and Yum Inc., the huge KFC/Pizza Hut/Taco Bell franchiser and a $250,000 donor, whose management was surely pleased when McConnell sponsored a special-interest bill protecting the fast-food industry against lawsuits alleging that their products cause obesity, heart disease and diabetes.

http://mobile.salon.com/opinion/conason/2010/03/05/mcconnell/index.html

[butterfly77]

7. I wonder about..

Orrin Hatch,Sessions,Inhofe,Coburn and Shelby..