GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell beholden to 'outside groups,' 80% of cash for his 2014 re-election is from outside Kentucky, made 6+ trips to NYC in first 3 months of 2014, held 8+ fundraisers there including at NY financial firms, back home pretends to shun East Coast fat cats-NY Daily News

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McConnell "has raised 80% of the $20 million he has collected this cycle outside Kentucky."

5/7/14, "EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell spends plenty of time in Manhattan while criticizing opponent’s trips," NY Daily News, Dan Friedman

"For a guy who is busy running the Republican side of the Senate and fighting for reelection, Mitch McConnell spends a lot of time in Manhattan. 

The 72-year old Senate minority leader's campaign has faulted his opponent, Democrat Alison Lundegran Grimes, 35, for lengthy fundraising trips outside Kentucky in Hollywood and New York.
But McConnell himself has made New York's Marriott Downtown practically his third home.

He made at least six trips to the Big Apple in first three months of 2014, according to Federal Election Commission records.

Campaign expense records show McConnell has quietly held at least eight fundraisers during those trips.

McConnell shelled out payments for catering at the upscale Brandy Library lounge in Tribeca, the ATRIO Wine Bar at Conrad New York Hotel and for events at financial firms.

While Grimes has also fundraised out of state, a spokeswoman for her campaign, Charly Norton, said the Democrat is the true local in the contest....

Back in Kentucky, McConnell has attacked what he calls the Obama administration's "War on Coal" and played on voters' distrust of Washington and East Coast elites....

He’s being bankrolled by fiscally conservative New York bankers.

The 2014 New York fundraisers netted McConnell more than $207,000 from executives at American Express, General Electric, Moore Capital, MetLife, Marsh & McLennan and Paulson & Co.

Such efforts have made New York, where McConnell has raised more than $1 million, the most lucrative metro area for the Republican leader's war chest, according to Center for Responsive Politics figures.

McConnell, who has raised 80% of the $20 million he has collected this cycle outside Kentucky, is just the most powerful of dozens of GOP candidates whose populist politicking doesn't stop them from fundraising on Wall Street.

A McConnell spokeswoman declined to comment on his New York fundraisers." via Mark Levin twitter

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