Mitch McConnell, Elaine Chao and the DC Bubble (Revolving Door)

Aren't there legitimate question to ask about how they both have profited by the "revolving door" in the US Government system as it is now in the Beltway Bubble?

The divorce from the woman who helped put him through law school and with whom he had three daughters might yield more information about his character and how he moved on to profit from the well-connected Elaine Chao and her family. How did the incredible successful Elaine Chao work her career through the "revolving door?" Did Mitch McConnell gain access to power through connections of his wife?

I found some interesting things just on a simple Google search:

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http://www.politicususa.com/washington-insider-mitch-mcconnell-his-wife.html

Mr. and Mrs. Washington Insider: Mitch McConnell and His Wife
By: Dennis S

The guy is a United States Senator. He’s been fouling up the chamber’s air for 27 years. He’s married to Elaine Chao, a reasonably bright and attractive Taiwanese immigrant (most likely Han Chinese) with a heavyweight CV that includes an 8-year stint as U.S. Secretary of Labor where she spent considerable time leaning on unions. She was also the Director of the Peace Corps and CEO of United Way. She earlier had been a VP of two huge banks. Before her labor gig, she was with the Heritage Foundation; she returned to Heritage in January 2009.
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Heritage opened an office in Hong Kong in 1996 and hired Chao to supposedly serve as Heritage’s academic liaison, passing on valuable cultural and scholarly matter for a better understanding of China and the region. In truth, Chao’s apparent lone responsibility was to grease the skids for U.S. manufacturers to cut deals to bring American jobs to non-union cheap labor plants in China. WorldNetDaily reported that she was also a director of an Alabama-based Insurance Company that partnered with the Chinese government. I’m sure she received a handsome stipend for her connections with a U.S. Senator – her husband. And this union-hating, American job exporter becomes U.S. Labor Secretary?

Any thoughtful Republican would consider most of the above to be a conflict of interest, not to mention her board membership of the National Association of Security Dealers. As Church Lady would say – “Isn’t that special.” For Republicans, it’s just another day at the office. Just like Clarence and his Tea Party wife, Virginia (Ginni).



If you haven’t guessed by now, the object of my disaffection is Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell. He’s my human equivalent of fingernails on a blackboard. While the media concentrates on the madman menagerie that is the U.S. House of Representatives, almost no attention is focused on the equally whacked out Republicans in the senate; every bit as Tea Party-possessed and Obama-hating as their house-bound colleagues.

MUCH MORE of the article at:

http://www.politicususa.com/washington-insider-mitch-mcconnell-his-wife.html


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Chao family gives $40 million to HBS (Harvard Business School)

By Katie Koch, Harvard Staff Writer / October 12, 2012

A family that sent four daughters through Harvard Business School — including former U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao — visited the School on Friday to announce a $40 million gift that will fund scholarships for students of Chinese heritage and support the building of the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center for executive education.\

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/tag/elaine-chao/

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Elaine Chao, Distinguished Fellow

Elaine L. Chao is a Distinguished Fellow at The Heritage Foundation, where she works on jobs, employment, trade, workforce and competitiveness issues.

An immigrant to this country, she arrived at the age of 8 speaking no English. In 2001, Chao became the nation’s 24th secretary of labor and the first American woman of Asian descent to be appointed to a president's Cabinet in the country’s history. The longest-serving secretary of labor since World War II, she is also the only member of President Bush’s Cabinet to serve all eight years of his administration.

Chao's distinguished career spans the public, private and non-profit sectors. During her tenure as labor secretary, the department set new records in worker health and safety; focused on increasing the competitiveness of America’s workforce in a globalized economy and enforced union financial disclosure reporting requirements for the benefit of rank-and-file workers.

Prior to leading the Department of Labor, Chao was president and CEO of United Way of America, director of the Peace Corps, deputy secretary of the Department of Transportation and chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission. She also worked as vice president at Bank of America in San Francisco and at Citicorp in New York City.

Chao received her MBA from the Harvard Business School and a degree in economics from Mount Holyoke College. Honored with innumerable awards for her contributions to public and community service, Chao is also the recipient of 34 honorary doctorate degrees.

She is married to the Republican leader of the U.S. Senate, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and they reside in Jefferson County, Ky.

http://www.heritage.org/about/staff/c/elaine-chao