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By Duncan Hardock In February, a series of tweets attacking former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao’s ethnicity had politicians and advocacy groups up in arms. The comments were made by the liberal PAC Progress Kentucky, as part of their campaign to oust Chao’s husband Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell from Kentucky. On February 14th, Progress Kentucky’s official Twitter account posted: “This …