By BERRY CRAIG
AFT Local 1360
The Kentucky Democratic Party has opened a “Moscow Mitch” webstore featuring bright red buttons, stickers and tee-shirts, plus brown fake-fur Russian-style hats.
"They won’t be in stock in time for Fancy farm, unfortunately," said Nicole Erwin, KDP communications director. "But we will have signs."
The state's premier political picnic is Saturday. McConnell is expected to speak.According to a KDP release, the buttons, stickers and apparel are "an embrace of the label originally given to Mitch McConnell by West Kentucky retired teacher Marshall Ward, and later echoed by conservative political pundit Joe Scarborough on MSNBC."
“#MoscowMitch would hate it if you bought one of these shirts,” the KDP tweeted today. "Just say nyet to Moscow Mitch. #kysen”
The merchandise urges voters to "Just say nyet! to Moscow Mitch" and depict the Senate majority leader decked out in a Russian fur hat with a hammer-and-sickle superimposed on a GOP elephant.
The buttons and stickers are priced at two for four bucks. The shirts are $25 apiece; the hats go for $35 each.
On the webstore page, the fur hat is shown crowning a bust of what looks suspiciously like George Washington.
"There's no comparison between the Father of Our Country and Moscow Mitch," Erwin said. "It certainly provides a clear contrast: Mitch McConnell doesn't care about the coal miners or any of the working families here in Kentucky."