The perks of being married to a Cabinet secretary: millions in federal funding and a special pipeline to the Department of Transportation
a plan to fix the nation‘s roads, bridges, mass transit, and other crumbling infrastructure, despite the urgency of the issue and the outline of the deal receiving rare support from both Democrats and the White House. But, as it turns out, McConnell isn’t opposed toinfrastructure spending. In fact, he’s quite open to it when it‘s flowing specifically to towns in his home state, thanks to a special arrangement with the Transportation Department set up by his Cabinet secretary wife.
Beginning in April 2017, Inman and Chao met annually with a delegation from Owensboro, Ky., a river port with long connections to McConnell, including a plaza named in his honor.
“Todd probably smoothed the way, I mean, you know, used his influence,” Mattingly said in a Politico interview. “Everybody says that projects stand on their own merit, right? So if I’ve got 10 projects, and they’re all equal, where do you go to break the tie? Well, let’s put it this way: I only have her ear an hour when I go to visit her once a year,” he added of Chao and Inman, a longtime Bluegrass State operative who had worked as McConnell’s advance man.
Boone County, another McConnell stronghold, also benefited from the direct line to Chao, via Inman. Inman reportedly communicated with the senator’s office concerning multiple requests from county executives to meet with the secretary, who sat down with Boone County Judge/Executivein December 2017, and whose request for a $67 million discretionary grant to upgrade roads in Boone County, was approved in June 2018.
Unsurprisingly, not everyone is thrilled by the special privileges that McConnell has enjoyed by virtue of his marriage. “Where a Cabinet secretary is doing things that are going to help her husband get reelected, that starts to rise to the level of feeling more like corruption to the average American…. I do think there are people who will see that as sort of ‘swamp behavior,’”a Brookings Institution scholar, told Politico.
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