Jesse Benton thought that he could resign as Mitch McConnell's campaign manager on the Friday before Labor Day weekend, and that nobody would notice. Wrong! We intrepid cats were on the job so you wouldn't miss this.
We know we've been very focused on Transvaginal Bob McDonnell's corruption trial these last few weeks, but in the true spirit of Bob, this McConnell guy is just as scandalous. It's not cash-clothes-Rolexes-Ferraris for favors, but it's bribery all the same: paying an Iowa state senator to switch his 2012 endorsement from Crazy Lady Michele Bachmann to Ron Paul.
Everyone's focused on this as a McConnell story, and that's not incorrect. Mitch is already having a bad week, what with that Koch audio coming out and all. But Benton is the same guy who was caught a year ago, saying he'd have to "hold his nose" to work to re-elect Mitch. What people tend to forget is that he said he'd do it just because it would help Rand Paul. So this resignation is a Rand Paul story, too.
This lovely Jesse Benton person was Rand's campaign manager in his 2010 race for the Senate, so he was first in line to be Rand's right-hand man for a Presidential run in 2016. And now he's embroiled in bribery.
Now, mind you, Jesse's not been accused of a crime — yet. (He's just quitting.) We suggest that he dial up Transvaginal Bob and Maureen and ask them how they handled it when the FBI came a-knocking on their door. Ol' Jess will probably want to do things differently. We cats PURR.
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