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'Mitch Kills Poor': McConnell's Kentucky home vandalized over Covid stimulus stance after Pelosi's house defacement

A 'F*** Mitch' graffiti demonstrated the clear outrage that people felt in response to McConnell's staunch stance against providing  Americans with $2,000 stimulus checks

After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's California home was vandalized, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's home in Kentucky was covered with graffiti on January 1, 2021, after polls showed that the overwhelming majority of Americans disagreed with McConnell's opposition to $2,000 stimulus checks.

McConnell's home in Louisville was graffitied with the words "Weres [sic] my money" on the front door, along McConnell's front porch being covered with similar messages. Slogans like "F*** Mitch" and "Mitch Kills Poor" were also painted, which demonstrated the clear outrage that people felt in response to McConnell's staunch stance against providing  Americans with $2,000 stimulus checks – a move that President Donald Trump and fellow Republicans and Democrats have pushed for.

Authorities said that they were yet to identify the culprit who vandalized McConnell's home. They also confirmed that the rest of McConnell's home appears untouched. On Saturday, January 2, McConnell issued an angry statement against the people who were responsible for vandalizing his home. "I’ve spent my career fighting for the First Amendment and defending peaceful protest," he said. "I appreciate every Kentuckian who has engaged in the democratic process whether they agree with me or not." "This is different," McConnell continued, "Vandalism and the politics of fear have no place in our society."

The leader also added that he and his wife were unmoved by the action. "My wife and I have never been intimidated by this toxic playbook," he said. "We just hope our neighbors in Louisville aren’t too inconvenienced by this radical tantrum." It was not immediately clear if McConnell was home during the incident.

McConnell squashed a bipartisan effort to increase stimulus checks to $2,000 despite Trump, most Democrats in the House and Senate, and plenty of Senate and House Republicans supporting the measure. He stayed firm and said Americans did not need the stimulus. "The Senate is not going to be bullied into rushing out more borrowed money into the hands of Democrats’ rich friends who don’t need the help," he said during a Senate floor speech last week.

Congress passed a $908 billion Covid-19 relief package that offered $600 stimulus checks instead.

MEAWW had reported that Pelosi's house was defaced with a pig’s head in a pool of red paint and a message written with spray-paint that spoke about the failed $2,000 stimulus checks. Photo of the disturbing scene was shared on social media by pro-Trump television personality Maggie VandenBerghe that showed Pelosi’s white garage door defaced with black graffiti text reading: “$2k Cancel RENT! We want everything!” The perpetrators also spray-painted two 'A's in circles, mostly identified as the symbol for anarchism.

The veteran Californian representative recently had a mixed bag of success in the legislature over the passing of a fresh Covid-19 relief package. While the Democrat was happy to see President Trump wanting to raise the paychecks from $600 to $2,000 and the House dominated by her party passing a new bill last Monday, December 28, to that effect, it was blocked repeatedly by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who called it “socialism for rich people”.