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Pfizer Gives $1 Million to Kentucky GOP to Expand Its Headquarters – The “Mitch McConnell Building"


Pfizer donated $1 million to the Kentucky Republican Party in 2021 in what is being called the highest donation to a political party in state history.

The donation will be used to expand the Frankfort Mitch McConnell Building in the state capital.

The donation seems like a perfect fit.

Mitch McConnell has been a staunch supporter of the COVID vaccine and COVID legislation.

Via The Kentucky Lantern:

In what may be the largest political contribution ever given to a political party in Kentucky, the drug maker Pfizer Inc. gave $1 million last month to the building fund of the Republican Party of Kentucky.
A report filed by Republican Party of Kentucky Building Fund last week with the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance listed the $1 million from Pfizer along with five other big corporation contributions in the final quarter of 2022 totalling $1.65 million.
That is an extraordinarily large haul for the fund which had raised only $6,000 during the first three quarters of 2022.
The other large corporate donors to the fund in late 2022 were:
  • Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., New York, $300,000;
  • Altria Client Services LLC, of Richmond, VA., $100,000;
  • Comcast Corp., of Philadelphia; $100,000;
  • AT&T, of St. Louis; $100,000;
  • Delta Air Lines, of Atlanta, $50,000.
State and federal campaign finance laws set limits on how much a person or political action committee can give to the executive committee of either political party. (A person can give no more than $15,000 per year.) And corporation contributions to a party’s executive committee are prohibited…
… The $1.65 million added to the GOP building fund would be plenty to pay for a major expansion and upgrade for the party headquarters. The Franklin County Property Valuation Administrator’s website currently lists the taxable value of the current headquarters property at $485,000. The Franklin PVA lists the taxable value of the adjacent vacant lot owned by the Republican Party at $150,000.
A sign identifies the party headquarters as the Mitch McConnell Building, in honor of U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
Read the entire report here.
 

stephen the barbarian

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John Fetterman is in the hospital.
US senator John Fetterman hospitalised after feeling ‘lightheaded’
US senator John Fetterman, who suffered a stroke during his election campaign last year, was hospitalised after feeling lightheaded while attending a Senate Democratic event, his office said.

Fetterman's communications director, Joe Calvello, said in a statement issued on Wednesday night: "Towards the end of the Senate Democratic retreat today, Senator John Fetterman began feeling lightheaded. He left and called his staff, who picked him up and drove him to the George Washington university hospital."

Initial tests at the hospital did not show evidence of a new stroke, Calvello said, but doctors were running more tests and the senator would remain in hospital overnight.
 

Bear Ribs

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I threw up a meme about this and then realized it's so ludicrous sounding, folks might not realize it's the real deal, even here.

 

Cherico

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I threw up a meme about this and then realized it's so ludicrous sounding, folks might not realize it's the real deal, even here.


Just get rid of the FBI scrap the entire organization and fire everyone.
 

Husky_Khan

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Ohio Democratic Politician and BernieBro... Sis? Nina Turner demands $25 hour minimum wage for workers!

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Terthna

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Extremist group Family Heritage Alliance said this morning that the safest place for kids are in families that have a married mom and dad. What a dangerous and un-American belief.

Technically, she's not wrong; such things are dangerous to people like her who are trying to take control over every aspect of our lives, and destroy our ability to resist.
 

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