Former Secretary of State and son of (his namesake) a former governor, John Y. Brown III, has endorsed Bruce Lunsford for U.S. Senate.
You’ll recall that we alluded to Brown’s support in early March when we revealed that he sat with Lunsford at the annual Wendell Ford Dinner.
In an email today, Brown said:
As a former Secretary of State, son of a former governor, and grandson of a former Kentucky congressman, I have deep roots in Kentucky. I care about the people of this state and I want to make sure they are represented by individuals who will fight to improve our lives. I have known Bruce Lunsford since he was the Commerce Secretary in my father’s administration and Treasurer of the Kentucky Democratic Party. I have gotten to know him both as both a public servant and a friend and I know he is the man who can bring change to Washington.
Read JYBIII’s message in its entirety after the jump…
Brown’s letter:
Dear Friend,
As a former Secretary of State, son of a former governor, and grandson of a former Kentucky congressman, I have deep roots in Kentucky. I care about the people of this state and I want to make sure they are represented by individuals who will fight to improve our lives. I have known Bruce Lunsford since he was the Commerce Secretary in my father’s administration and Treasurer of the Kentucky Democratic Party. I have gotten to know him both as both a public servant and a friend and I know he is the man who can bring change to Washington.
I decided to endorse Bruce because it is time for real change and you can help make it happen.
Many in Washington have lost touch. I’m certainly not alone in my sentiment. I’m hearing the same thing from people all across Kentucky. We need a Senator who will fight to give working families more opportunity, change course in Iraq, and work hard to make universal health care a reality. Bruce will be that Senator.
That’s why I am asking you to join me in supporting Bruce Lunsford for U.S. Senate.
Bruce is the Democratic candidate with the best chance of beating Mitch McConnell. Bruce received the endorsement of the labor organizations Change to Win and the AFL-CIO because they know he will fight for the 175,000 Kentucky families they represent. He received the endorsement of Iraq war veteran Col. Andrew Horne because Col. Horne knows Bruce will fight to protect our troops and our veterans.
The people of Kentucky already understand Bruce is the right Democrat to take on McConnell. Last week, a public poll by WHAS TV showed likely voters overwhelmingly chose Bruce above any other Democrat.
Endorsements and positive poll numbers are wonderful tools to have in a campaign but the only way to win is with the support of the people of the Commonwealth. Show your support today and help us term-limit McConnell in 2008.
Thank you,
John Y. Brown III
10 responses so far ↓
1 Jeff Noble // Apr 8, 2008 at 1:41 pm
You’ve misused the word namesake.
JYB3, of Louisville, is the namesake of the former governor, JYB, Jr. Brown, 3rd was named for the sake of, and is thus the namesake of, his father.
JYB, Jr., who was a resident of Louisville during the Primary but called Lexington his home by the time of the November 1979 election, was named for the sake of, and is thus the namesake of JYB, Sr., who was a former Congressman (one term) and several-term member of the Kentucky House of Representatives. Brown, Sr. as a member of the Kentucky House, sponsored the state’s first sales tax and was a strong supporter of civil rights legislation. He ran for governor once, the US Senate a few times, and again for Congress in the early 1980s. I got to know him then. I’ve been told he ran for office a total of 21 times, but I’ve never affirmed such.
JYB, Sr., of Lexington, was himself named for the sake of, and was thus the namesake of, John Young Brown who served Kentucky as Congressman, first from Kentucky’s 5th district as a resident of E’ Town, then ten years later from Kentucky’s 2nd, representing the Henderson area.
Years later he moved to Louisville. At some point he returned to Henderson, from where he ran for governor and won, in 1891.
I know that this thread isn’t a discussion of the definition of the word namesake, which is why I provided the side stories about Kentucky’s other John Young Browns.
— JN
2 jake // Apr 8, 2008 at 1:45 pm
From Dictionary.com:
name·sake
–noun
1. a person named after another.
2. a person having the same name as another.
3 Jeff Noble // Apr 8, 2008 at 1:59 pm
And with that you’ve made my case. Definition #1 applies to my writing. Definition #2 does as well. JYB3 has the same name as his father, and is thus his namesake. AS JYB, Jr., was first named, he cannot be named for the sake of his son.
Let me provide much of the rest of dictionary.com’s entry on the word, as you left most of it out.
6 results for: namesake
noun
1. a person named after another.
2. a person having the same name as another.
[Origin: 1640–50; alter. of name's (name + 's1) sake1]
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
(nām’sāk’) Pronunciation Key
n. One that is named after another.
[From the phrase for the name's sake.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
namesake
1646, “person named for the sake of someone” is probably originally (for the) name’s sake.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
namesake
noun
a person with the same name as another
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
a person with the same name as oneself
See also: call (someone) names, nameless, namely, nameplate, in the name of, make a name for oneself, name, name after
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version), © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged DictionaryNamesake
Name”sake`\, n. [For name's sake; i. e., one named for the sake of another's name.] One that has the same name as another; especially, one called after, or named out of regard to, another.
4 kilowat // Apr 8, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Lunsford had two young men show up at Tater Day with home made sign, pretty good turn out, crowed est. was close 10K,you think he could at least show up for some of the events !!! Greg Fischer and Heather Ryan were their she waked the 2 mile parade route .
link to the photos i took
http://s163.photobucket.com/albums/t283/kilowat1946/Tater%20Day%20Benton%20Ky/?action=view¤t=IMG_3959.jpg
http://s163.photobucket.com/albums/t283/kilowat1946/Tater%20Day%20Benton%20Ky/?albumview=slideshow
5 jake // Apr 8, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Again, I’m pretty sure “namesake” has more than one definition, including “a person having the same name as another.” Hence my use of “namesake”…
6 James R // Apr 9, 2008 at 11:15 am
70-30 race in the fall.
7 jake // Apr 9, 2008 at 11:17 am
Bruce’s $8,392,809,898,230,984,239,048 will buy a much closer race than that.
Heck, even Greg Fischer could pull a 60-40 with no current name I.D. or money.
8 Forks of Elkhorn // Apr 10, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Maybe he was speaking of the Primary. 70-30 might be right. But what will Fischer get?
Lunsford -39
Williams -27
Fischer – 25
Every body else – 9
Ok, Jake. There’s your first prediction for the Primary.
9 Lobster // Apr 10, 2008 at 3:24 pm
This is about playing both sides. JYB 3 and Hunter Bates are lobbyists together. Bates is of course supporting his former boss McConnell. Brown is playing up to the Dems with support of Lunsford. It’s franky part of the problem in Frankfort, in particular, same thing going on over other larger firms in Frankfort like McBrayer’s. You have libs like Mary Ellen Horner and the Cutter fellow while a former Fletcher hack Benton? is their GOP suckup. Same old story.
10 Annex Annie // Apr 10, 2008 at 8:05 pm
I think you mean Bentley. Have met him a couple of times. He has a very big opinion of himself. Don’t most of these types around Frankfort, particularly the Fletcherites like him?
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