Ventura

Vladimir Putin wants to expand Russia’s influence in the United States. Multiple mass shootings here in America and President Donald Trump’s rhetoric is helping to weaken our unity and our ability to recognize who the threat is. Putin has said “they are eating themselves,” referring to Americans.

Sen. Mitch McConnell has helped Putin to increase Russian influence in America. Several months ago, McConnell helped lift the sanctions to allow a Russian company to invest $200 million in an aluminum plant in McConnell’s home state of Kentucky. The senator’s wife, Chou, is in the Trump administration as transportation secretary and personally cleared the way for Kentucky projects that politically benefited her husband.

McConnell is also blocking bills to stop Russian interference in our elections. Two bipartisan bills have been stalled in the Senate at his insistence. McConnell declares that no bills to improve election security will be allowed to be brought to a vote in the Senate until after the election. McConnell doesn’t want an honest election. This way he can make sure it isn’t.

Russia wants McConnell; we should not. Ditch “Moscow Mitch.”

Linda Noble, Simi Valley