The super PAC affiliated with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is squeezing Rep. Mo Brooks over acceptance of trip to China with his wife that was financed by groups supportive of comprehensive immigration reform.
Senate Leadership Fund backs appointed Sen. Luther Strange in the Aug. 15 special Senate election, and with two weeks to go in the race is keeping the pressure on Brooks by attempting to tie him to groups that oppose President Trump's get-tough immigration policies. The super PAC obtained the information on Brooks' trips — legal and conducted according to the rules — from required congressional filings.
According to information from SLF provided to and verified by Washington Examiner: "In March-April 2016, Brooks and his wife went on an all-expense paid, special interest-funded trip to China costing nearly $15,000...The trip was funded by several liberal groups who oppose Donald Trump's executive orders on immigration."
The groups, which funded trips sponsored by the Aspen Institute, included Carnegie Corporation of New York; Rockefeller Brothers Foundation; and Democracy Fund. The McConnell super PAC added gratuitiously that "the members of Congress who went to China with Brooks were overwhelmingly Democrats."
Brooks in a statement provided by his campaign said that Strange's supporters are being deceitful. He defended the trips as educational excursions that didn't cost the taxpayers a dime.
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04.29.2024