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Kentucky: Elaine Chao

Fri, 11/14/2008 - 14:23

Transition: What’s next for Elaine Chao?

By Trey Pollard, PolitickerKY.com Reporter

Though her husband - U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Louisville) - will have a government job in Washington, D.C., next year following his re-election to a fifth-term in the Senate, U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao is not likely not be in President-elect Barack Obama's cabinet.

Obama and Chao differ dramatically on labor policy, including the controversial Employee Free Choice Act, which Obama supports and Chao does not. Such incongruencies make it unlikely Chao would be asked to stay on under Obama after her service in the Bush administration.

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Mon, 10/13/2008 - 22:37

C-J's coverage of Senate race 'shameless,' says Chao

By Trey Pollard, PolitickerKY.com Reporter

BOWLING GREEN -- Mainstream media outlets have been a frequent target of criticisms from the campaign of U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Louisville) - particularly the state's largest newspaper, the Louisville Courier-Journal. McConnell's wife, U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, threw a jab of her own at that paper today while on the campaign trail, when asked if she thought recent polls indicating a tightening race between McConnell and businessman Bruce Lunsford (D-Louisville) were accurate.

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Mon, 10/13/2008 - 20:59

Lunsford camp on Chao comments: 'Ludicrous'

By Trey Pollard, PolitickerKY.com Reporter

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Comments made by U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao today while she campaigned for her husband, U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Louisville) drew an objection from the camp of McConnell's opponent, Louisville businessman Bruce Lunsford (D-Louisville).

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Mon, 10/13/2008 - 18:16

Chao pushes McConnell’s ‘influence’ at women’s event

By Trey Pollard, PolitickerKY.com Reporter

BOWLING GREEN - U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao has been hitting the campaign trail hard in support of her husband's re-election campaign. Chao made eight appearances in the last week to talk up the candidacy of U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Louisville) at "Woman-to-Woman" events across the state. During her stop in Bowling Green this afternoon, she spokes extensively on one of the campaign's principle messages - McConnell's purported influence as the Minority Leader in the Senate.

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Fri, 08/08/2008 - 17:48

Herald-Leader article references McConnell's own Vencor link

By Trey Pollard, PolitickerKY.com Reporter

A day after U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell's (R-Louisville) campaign referenced opponent Bruce Lunsford's (D-Louisville) history as head of the troubled nursing home chain, Vencor, the Lexington Herald-Leader notes McConnell has his own connection to the Vencor controversy.

John Cheves writes that McConnell's wife, and U.S. Secretary of Labor, Elaine Chao served on Vencor's board of directors from 1997 to 2001.

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Sun, 04/13/2008 - 22:40

McConnell targets Obama, defends Iraq policy

By Trey Pollard, PolitickerKY.com Reporter

Introducing her husband to an assembled crowd of fellow Republicans in Northern Kentucky on Saturday night, Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao said Senator and Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was playing a crucial role in preventing the “Europeanization” of American labor law.

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