Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear sharply criticized Senator Mitch McConnell and the Senate at large over the Kentucky Republican’s prolonged absence from Congress due to health issues.
Beshear, a Democrat, said on Friday that he still had little information about the condition of McConnell, who was hospitalized in mid-June and released from a rehabilitation center earlier this month.
“I’ve received absolutely nothing, and that’s the same that the people of Kentucky have received,” Beshear told MS Now. “This is why the Senate feels broken. These guys don’t think that they have a boss when the people of Kentucky are their boss. They don’t feel like they are accountable whatsoever.”
Beshear called on McConnell to make a video or call into a news show to update the public about his health.
He could have called for a special election before August 3rd and forced the issue. That’s a hell of a lot more than I could do.
You also left out: McConnell is a US Senator for the state of Kentucky. It’s not like he immediately became untouchable by his state he represents the moment he got elected.
The democrats (and the governor) are just too spineless to force the issue.