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The gifts included tickets to NFL and NBA games, a production of Dostoevsky's Crime And Punishment, a Ringo Starr concert, "top-quality brandy," and what McConnell called a "beautiful ham." McConnell often ended his thank you notes to tobacco lobbyists with an offer: "Please feel free to call on me whenever I may be of assistance to you." In response to NPR's questions about these gifts, a spokesperson for McConnell wrote, "these gifts were legal." The email continued, "It is wrong to insinuate that Senator McConnell's support for Kentucky tobacco farmers was unique in an era where, regardless of party affiliation in Kentucky, with at least some tobacco grown in 119 out of 120 countiesand over 100,000 growers, everyone in the Kentucky Delegation was fighting for tobacco in Kentucky in that era." "We will provide maximum help early" Throughout this time, the industry also provided McConnell with major campaign contributions

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Dimensions: 3460 x 5200 px | 29.3 x 44 cm | 11.5 x 17.3 inches | 300dpi Date taken: 15 November 2013
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