Jesse Benton, Mitch McConnell’s 2014 campaign manager who said in a private phone call that he was “holding his nose” to work for the Senate minority leader, is trying to polish the giant turd he deposited on McConnell’s doorstep.
He now tells a Louisville TV station, “It was just so dumb, I don’t feel that way at all.”
The first half of his statement is true.
Bad as Benton looks, McConnell looks worse for not having the balls to fire him.
Mitch McConnell has emerged from his shell to post a photo of himself with his campaign manager, Jesse Benton, holding his nose.
Not funny and not effective, Yertle, Benton’s gotta go.
It would have been funnier to have McConnell holding his nose and pointing at Benton.
“Between you and me, I’m sort of holding my nose for two years cause what we’re doing here is gonna be a big benefit to Rand in ’16.”
Jesse Benton, Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s campaign manager (probably not for long) for his 2014 re-election, in a recorded telephone conversation with Republican activist Dennis Fusaro.
Fusaro leaked the conversation to the Economic Policy Journal as part of the scandal about Ron Paul’s 2012 presidential campaign paying Iowa State Senator Kent Sorenson to jump ship from Michele Bachmann to Paul. Under Iowa law, Sorenson couldn’t be paid by a presidential campaign, but he was. We’re talking a couple of hundred thousand dollars here.
Jesse Benton, who married into the Paul family, was Ron Paul’s national campaign chairman in 2012 and Rand Paul’s campaign manager in 2010.
McConnell needs Rand Paul’s support in his fight against Tea Party primary challengers, and then of course McConnell would be heavily in Rand Paul’s debt come 2016.
This is getting nasty, and it isn’t just about Kentucky, it has national implications for the next presidential election.
Embattled Farmers 