West Virginia GOP Candidate Attacks Mitch McConnell's Wife, Calls Her Father 'A Wealthy Chinaperson'

[workinclasszero]

West Virginia GOP Candidate Attacks Mitch McConnell's Wife, Calls Her Father 'A Wealthy Chinaperson'
JOSH BILLINSON | APR 25, 2018 | 8:53 AM

Just months after the Roy Moore debacle in Alabama cost Republicans a Senate seat, the GOP has found another Republican candidate it would like to keep out of the United States Senate.

Fresh off a stint in federal prison for his role in a mining disaster that left 29 people dead, Don Blankenship would like to be the next senator from West Virginia. He's been an enemy of establishment Republicans since he first launched his candidacy in November, but recent comments put him squarely at odds with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).

During a recent radio appearance, Blankenship questioned whether the ethnicity of McConnell's wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, could constitute a conflict of interest. Blankenship suggested that Chao's father is “a wealthy Chinaperson,” The New York Times reported.

Blankenship's choice of words is a gender-neutral spin on “Chinaman,” a once-common term for people of Chinese origin. Today, the term is considered dated and offensive after it found common use as a slur.

https://ijr.com/2018/04/1088345-don-blankenship-elaine-chao/

[Funtatlaguy]

1. You know he wanted to say

“Chink”....I’m surprised that bigot didn’t.

[dawg]

3. He wanted to say "Chinaman" but ...

he wasn't quite sure if the term was just regular offensive or like ... full blown n-word offensive.

So he decided to go with "Chinaperson" instead.

[genxlib]

7. So apparently

The gender role sensitivity training stuck with him but the racial sensitivity was just too much to comprehend.

[Volaris]

9. Ya but that's just the cherry on top of the

' He's stupid enough to pick a very nasty fight with mitch fucking mcconnell' Cake.

I'm no fan. But I'll give credit where it's due and Yertle is very damn good at being a very nasty advarsary. If there's a faster way to end this dumb fuckers run for senate, I can't really think of one.

[struggle4progress]

2. Eek! A young sea captain comes to the US and is successful in business!

[bigtree]

4. McConnell breeds these bigots

...with his own politics.

[workinclasszero]

5. Thats the truth

[Cha]

10. yes.. him, trump and the rest of them

[Sneederbunk]

6. It's just GOP politics Mitch. Ask Ted Cruz.

[Scurrilous]

8. What hath clean beautiful coal wrought!

[Takket]

11. As if there is nothing else to attack McConnell over

Like being the most corrupt person to ever head the senate. A perverter of established rules and an enabler of a Russian dictator. But let’s attack his wife’s dad’s ethnicity.