The Herald-Leader has a story about the U.S. Senate race in Kentucky. As you’ll see, the paper claims Jack Conway is busy building a network behind the scenes: Both candidates have been heavily involved in raising much-needed funds for costly TV ads in the fall, when most voters pay attention to the race. But Conway, [...]

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Looky here! David Adams registered Phil Moffett dot com on July 10th. He also registered a dot org but no dot net. And I hear Mike Harmon could be his running mate. No wonder Adams has some teabagger press conference scheduled for Thursday. UPDATE: Folks everywhere are telling me that David Adams was forced out [...]

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I don’t like criticizing Andrew Horne, but give me a break. His wife and others have spent the past two months telling everybody and their mother that Andrew’s part of a new organization focused on taking Rand Paul down. So he needs to can it with the non-partisan talking point. P.S. How can a group [...]

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What was that, again, about me being wrong, Conway staffers? Looks like John Collins really IS Jack Conway’s new communications director and Allison Haley really is being replaced.  So much for those personal attacks from your state computers about what an idiot I am. [Cleveland Plain Dealer] If you missed it earlier, Jack Conway got [...]

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That should be this story’s headline. Because that’s definitely who Sylvia Lovely sounds like. She is still making excuses for her behavior and actions while at the helm of the Kentucky League of Cities. And she’s till trashing the government audit that uncovered all the wrongdoing, waste, fraud and abuse. She’s on a one woman [...]

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If you’re not a reporter working for a dying newspaper looking to us to do your job (and even if you are), you’re refreshing Page One 24/7 because you want some horrible snark. You say you hate us but you keep coming back for more. So ramp up your rage, get those manties out of [...]

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Yeah, we’re examining everybody’s Federal Election Commission reports, so let’s also take a look at Daniel Mongiardo’s quarterly report. $163,539.94 raised $471,103.66 spent ($1,858,237.08 spent for the entire campaign) $203,038.27 cash on hand $77,357.73 debts/obligations Mongiardo loaned his campaign $12,500 Notable Contributions Brent Ackerson $250 Steve Horner $1,800 Tim Longmeyer $710.32 Chris Tobe $475 Marcus [...]

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Jack Conway’s quarterly report to the Federal Election Commission for his U.S. Senate run is now available. Let’s dig in… $893,948.96 raised $1,016,359 spent, plus $275,000 in loan repayments (He’s spent $3,000,554.65 for the campaign thus far) $703,012.82 cash on hand $331,209.28 debts/obligations $400,000 loaned to the campaign by Conway Notable Contributions Jerry Lundergan $4,800 [...]

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This week President Barack Obama discussed moving the economy forward instead of backward:

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Only one person in the media isn’t afraid to question whether or not strip mining and mountaintop removal is to blame for the disaster in Pike County. [Larry Webster] All the national papers are all over Rand Paul because his family received USDA farm subsidies. [Washington Post] I don’t want to harp too badly on [...]

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