The Kentucky Democratic Party has hired a new communications staffer: Liz Fossett. She’ll hopefully serve as interim director until a new one is hired to replace Thom Karmik (remember him? heh) but will primarily focus on new media and the internets. Liz, from northern Kentucky (Covington), worked on Ken Lucas’ race in 2006, was behind [...]

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Why has the Kentucky Association of Counties spent $200,000 in two years for advertising during UK basketball games? WTF kind of waste is THAT? Every day we learn something new that makes us hope KACo is dissolved entirely. What a g.d. farce. That money really would be better spent on hookers and coke. And maybe [...]

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Don’t forget to watch Comment on Kentucky tonight at 8:00 P.M. Eastern on KET. Scheduled guests: James Bruggers – Courier-Journal Ronnie Ellis – CNHI Bill Estepp – Herald-Leader We’d bet money Ronnie Ellis will be able to bring the funny this week. But not a lot of money.

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Using the river to generate electricity? How strange. Surely you’re kidding. We’d never do something like that anywhere near Kentucky. [C-J] Southern Belles: Louisville’s oh snap moment. Yeah, you know you watched every minute of that mess. Now we know why Shea was our favorite. [Told Ya So!] Careful, Rick, or Kellie’s mom will yell [...]

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In meetings and such this afternoon, so let’s take a look at how the Warshington pundits are viewing Kentucky’s U.S. Senate race. From The Fix: 2. Kentucky (R): Jim Bunning. Say those two words to any Republican operative in either Washington or Kentucky and you will get an eye roll and a shrug of the [...]

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This week Governor Steve Beshear spends 1:41 discussing the military tax credit:

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Just released from the White House, Poppy Bush’s statement on the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act: “I congratulate President Obama for taking some time today to remember the 19th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There is no place in our society for prejudice of any kind, yet it was not that [...]

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Earlier today on the Twitter machine, Secretary of Finance and Administration Jonathan Miller, provided an over-the-shoulder view of Governor Steve Beshear signing Kentucky’s new car tax credit. Everything looks a-okay from afar: But when you zoom in on the photo? You’ll see what Beshear actually scribbled on that piece of paper. Peep the zoomed-in photograph [...]

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If Daniel Mongiardo is such a proponent of E-Health, why didn’t he attend more than three out of eight meetings last year? See? February 6, 2008 – Present March 5, 2008 – Absent April 2, 2008 – Present June 4, 2008 – Present July 2, 2008 – Absent August 6, 2008 – Absent October 1, [...]

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The Democratic National Committee released a new health care ad yesterday:

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