Apparently not.
It may seem silly to get picky over how Mitch McConnell signs his letters to major newspapers. But you’d think when running the most fiery re-election campaign of your U.S. Senate career, you’d want to make sure every last one of your constituents believes you’re a tried and true Kentuckian, right? Right.
On July 27th and July 30th Mitch McConnell wrote letters published in the Courier-Journal and signed them as follows:
MITCH McCONNELL
Washington 20005
Why doesn’t Mitch sign letters with his actual Louisville, Kentucky address? Could it be that he’s more comfortable signing them from his Washington hideout?
The zipcode 20005, if you’re not familiar, includes K Street in Washington, D.C., home of every skeevy lobbyist and special interest on the planet. One would think that after the Tom Delay and Jack Abramoff scandals involving K Street, Mitch would want to avoid sending the signal to Kentuckians that he’s more comfortable associating himself with big oil and mega insurance lobbyists than he is with everyday people he’s supposed to represent.
UPDATE: Senator McConnell’s campaign responded to clarify. According to campaign staff, McConnell doesn’t include an address or zip when writing letters to the Courier-Journal. The campaign says the K Street zip is added by editors at the C-J.
How lame is that? We don’t support McConnell, but you’d think the state’s largest paper of record wouldn’t deliberately attempt to make McConnell seem more ‘gone Washington’ than he already is.
7 responses so far ↓
1 Ben // Jul 30, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Hey, I used to live in that zip! Don’t you slander GWU that way, you swishy liberal media type!
2 jake // Jul 30, 2008 at 3:50 pm
I own property in that zip, so, I know what kind of scum inhabits that neck of the woods. Total elitist lobbyist types!
Not the kinda scum you want your constituency to associate with you.
3 J // Jul 30, 2008 at 4:40 pm
I thought the McConnells lived in 20002. Maybe the communications consultant who wrote the letter is in 20005.
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5 Don't Be a Jack@$$ // Jul 31, 2008 at 12:27 am
I am almost certain the CJ would publish anything to take a deliberate shot at McConnell. The only people who think the CJ is fair and balanced are looking at it from the left of the spectrum. I would put a hefty bet it was intentional!
6 jake // Jul 31, 2008 at 12:28 am
Get over your liberal media horse shit.
No one likes the C-J.
7 jefferson poole // Jul 31, 2008 at 8:36 am
Correction: Everyone except Jerry Abramson hates the CJ.
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