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Entries Tagged as 'Campaign Finance'

Can You Believe They Let The Gays Immigrate?

May 9th, 2013 · No Comments

In the past five years, Kentucky lawmakers have cut the state budget by $1.6 billion. But if something doesn’t change, they may have just begun to cut services. [Ronnie Ellis] Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is taking a page from President Obama’s reelection playbook for his own campaign — embracing Internet memes, data mining and cinematic [...]

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Tags: Alison Grimes · Barack Obama · Budget · Campaign Finance · Discrimination · Economy · Education · Environment · Immigration · Jobs · KDP · Kentucky Tourism · Mitch McConnell · RPK · Senate · The Gays

You’re Still Hung Over From The Horsie Races

May 5th, 2013 · No Comments

Last spring, Conor Murphy was a hired hand who spent his days galloping racehorses, combing knotted manes and shoveling manure in a stable in Berkshire, England. [H-L] The job market may not be as weak as it looked just a month ago — but it is still nowhere near as strong as it could be. [...]

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Tags: Alison Grimes · Barack Obama · Campaign Finance · Economy · Education · Flashback · Health Care · Humor · Jobs · Stats · Takin yer guns! · UK

Will RPK Field A Knuckledragger Or Someone With Sense To Run In The Special Election?

April 30th, 2013 · No Comments

James L. Kay II, chairman of the Woodford County Democratic Party, will be the party’s nominee in the June 25 special election to fill a vacancy in the 56th District of the state House of Representatives. His mugshot(s) are going to make it difficult for him to win because those mail pieces just write themselves [...]

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Tags: Campaign Finance · Economy · Environment · Health Care · KDP · Kentucky Business · Kentucky Tourism · Polling · Rand Paul · Special Election · Steve Beshear · Takin yer guns! · Wasted Money

Stop Pretending Real Pension Reform Will Happen

March 25th, 2013 · No Comments

Republican fundraisers say the changing views of gay marriage in their party could unlock big money from GOP donors in places like New York, California and Florida — where some Republicans have kept their checkbooks closed over what they saw as misplaced priorities, at best, or intolerance, at worst, at the highest ranks of the [...]

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Tags: Campaign Finance · Discrimination · Economy · Health Care · Jack Conway · Steve Beshear · The Gays

Paper Just Now Realizes UK Made Up Of White Men

March 18th, 2013 · 4 Comments

White men make up most of the University of Kentucky leadership team. By next month, the top candidates for provost of the University of Kentucky should be on campus for interviews in the most-watched job search since President Eli Capilouto came on board in 2011. [H-L] What Americans keep ignoring about Finland’s school success. Everyone [...]

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Tags: Barack Obama · Campaign Finance · Corruption · Discrimination · Eastern Kentucky · Education · Military · Mitch McConnell · Rand Paul · Takin yer guns! · UK

Kentucky Should Jump On Clean Energy $ Train

March 15th, 2013 · No Comments

Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) proposed budget would reduce government spending outside of Social Security and interest on debt to its lowest levels in over six decades, Investor’s Business Daily reported Wednesday. [HuffPo & IBD] If a rolling stone gathers no moss, then the Republican Party is a very stationary stone, Kentucky U.S. Senator Rand Paul told [...]

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Tags: Barack Obama · Budget · Campaign Finance · Corruption · David L. Williams · Education · Environment · Rand Paul · The Gays

Former AG Candidate Todd P’Pool Is In The News

March 8th, 2013 · No Comments

Despite constant budget fights in Washington, the U.S. economy managed one of the best months for job gains in the past year in February, driving the unemployment rate to its lowest level in more than four years. [HuffPo] This has got to be the dumbest thing to go down in Kentucky in decades. A pro-gun [...]

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Tags: Campaign Finance · Corruption · Economy · Health Care · Jobs · Journalism · Rand Paul · Takin yer guns! · Wasted Money

Rumors Of FEC Audit For Anti-McConnell Group

March 4th, 2013 · No Comments

We’ve been hearing rumblings and rumors that Progress Kentucky is about to face an audit from the Federal Election Commission. Which will come as a surprise to no one. What may come as a surprise? There could be some serious drama ahead. Of the $1,004.97 raised by the Super PAC, its report claims the organization [...]

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Tags: Campaign Finance · Mitch McConnell · Rumor

Sometimes Teabaggers (Not TPers) Are Just Bizarre

March 1st, 2013 · 1 Comment

Wondering why David Adams’ political organization and tiny group of supporters are easily dismissed by most Republicans and true Tea Partiers? The First Amendment doesn’t protect them from backlash when they say something stupid and racist. Also doesn’t protect them from reporting requirements – which they agreed to when forming the organization. If they didn’t [...]

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Tags: Campaign Finance · First Amendment · Mitch McConnell · Spotted

Mitch Gains Campaign $ From Super PAC Mess

February 28th, 2013 · No Comments

We told you last evening about Mitch McConnell’s re-election campaign capitalizing on the racist remarks from Progress Kentucky. Here’s the email blast: Dear Friend, You’ve probably seen the attack ads already targeting Senator McConnell – still nearly 2 years away from the election! As he stands in the breach for freedom and against President Obama’s [...]

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Tags: Campaign Finance · Mitch McConnell · Senate