Shady Katie McGinty returned to DC yesterday to hobnob with her dark money heavyweight friends. According to reports from Morning Consult, McGinty gave shout-outs during her speech to fellow Clinton cronies, “McGinty…pointed to former Clinton administration colleagues of hers in the room – including John Podesta, the chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign…”
In her speech, Shady Katie also bizarrely bragged about her role in a land grab for which she was subpoenaed and only turned over records after contempt of Congress charges were threatened.
McGinty was greeted in Washington by a large group of protesters wearing “Shady Katie” branded sunglasses and a handful were dressed in a cap-and-gown following her recent lie about being the first in her family to attend college.
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Speaking at an annual gala in Washington for the League of Conservation Voters, McGinty recalled her work in the White House as the chairwoman of President Bill Clinton’s White House Council on Environmental Quality, saying she was at the center of the administration’s controversial efforts to employ the Antiquities Act to declare a large swath of land in Utah a national monument. It earned the administration criticism and spawned a protracted legal battle with House Republicans.
McGinty looked over the crowd and pointed to former Clinton administration colleagues of hers in the room – including John Podesta, the chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign – and praised them for “dusting off the Antiquities Act,” the 1906 law used as a “tool to protect and celebrate our heritage.”
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Instead, her opponents have raised ethical qualms about her moving in and out of government and private sector work, going from environmental regulator to the one who was being regulated in the clean energy sector. The “revolving door” attack line has been the subject of paid television advertisements by both Toomey’s campaign and outside groups, and was featured in a new LinkedIn-style website called ShadyKatieMcGinty.com released this week by the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
McGinty’s pitch to donors here came as she hit a rough patch in her campaign back home. In recent days, she has been on the defensive after being accused of exaggerating her blue-collar roots, and since she won her primary in late April, some Democrats have openly questioned whether the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s major investment on her behalf in the primary was worth it.