{"id":98964,"date":"2019-01-25T11:14:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T16:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=98964"},"modified":"2019-01-25T11:14:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T16:14:49","slug":"letter-are-mcconnell-and-colleagues-involved-in-russia-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=98964","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: Are McConnell and colleagues involved in Russia scandal?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>To the\nEditor:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.jpg?resize=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why would a Senate majority leader block a possible veto-proof\nCongress from opening the government?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 800,000 people who are struggling without paychecks must\nbe asking the same question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my opinion, the unrealistic border wall myth is a\ndistraction from what many of us suspect: that some Republican members of\nCongress, some in Fox News and conservative radio talk hosts and the leader of\nthe free world may have hands in the Russian cookie jar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 800,000 people in the federal government are not\nreceiving paychecks because of Trump&#8217;s shutdown \u2013 the one he bragged about and\ntook responsibility for on national television. It is my notion this shutdown\ncould end if the Senate majority leader let the Senate vote for a bill passed\nin the House and sent to the Senate to open the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, Mitch McConnell is blocking the Senate from voting\non a bill once passed by Republicans in the Senate. This is basically one leg\nin the legislative body (Senate) protecting the executive branch from\naccountability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mitch McConnell was part of the eight Republicans who blocked\nvotes to reinsert lifted sanctions on a Russian oligarch&#8217;s firms; are their\nhands in the Russian cookie jar like Trump&#8217;s?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Alfred\nWaddell, Marstons Mills, Mass.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Editor: Why would a Senate majority leader block a possible veto-proof Congress from opening the government? The 800,000 people who are struggling without paychecks must be asking the same question. In my opinion, the unrealistic border wall myth is a distraction from what many of us suspect: that some Republican members of Congress, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23678,23808,8],"tags":[12902],"class_list":["post-98964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letterstotheeditor","category-opinion","category-top-story","tag-madison-county-courier"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-pKc","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}