Let’s just go ahead and say it: Alison should run for Attorney General in 2015. She could clean up the mountain of corruption. She could beat Andy Beshear and potentially end that political dynasty before it begins. She’d be a world of difference from what the OAG currently has with Jack Conway. Since Jamie Comer [...]

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Former Kentucky Democratic Party Chairman Bill Garmer said Friday he is considering running for the U.S. Senate next year if Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes declines to enter the race against Republican incumbent Mitch McConnell. [PEE ALERT] Naturally, Republicans are split on a media shield law amid outrage over the Associated Press records seizure. [...]

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You guys, Mitch McConnell is really mad about fishing: Can you even imagine Mitch using a fishing rod? We can’t, thankfully. But we can imagine him ignoring important issues like pension corruption in his home state, his constituents’ lack of jobs, lack of access to health care, starving poor kids and everything else under the [...]

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This may be one of the most interesting Rand Paul moments we’ve seen:

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What the hell is going on in Scott County These days? A chocolate lab named Darcy ended up at the Scott County Animal Shelter after her owner says she escaped from the yard. [WKYT] With a barrage of legal briefs, a coalition of business groups and Republican-leaning states are taking their fight against Obama administration [...]

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Wanna know what’s going to suck for the hundreds of thousands of families in need of food assistance in Kentucky? This: The average value of federal food aid will fall to $1.40 per person per meal in November, as a Recovery Act provision expires, but Republicans are already working to impose a further $21 billion [...]

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Mitch McConnell is so mad at the IRS mess that he spent 8.5 minutes on the Senate floor talking about it:

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You can’t even be in Lexington these days without getting shot or stabbed. That town is still trying to catch up to Louisville. [H-L] Pat Buchanan has a plan to win more white voters for the GOP. Which should make some racist old coots in Frankfort quite happy. [HuffPo] People magazine dubbed him “the deadliest [...]

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Ouch! Republicans are hitting Alison Grimes pretty hard today: CLICK TO SEE FOR YOURSELF The ad goes on: When Alison Lundergan Grimes attacks Kentucky’s Senator Mitch McConnell for “obstruction,” she’s signaling to Washington liberals that she would rubber-stamp the Obama-Pelosi agenda that McConnell is defending Kentuckians from. “Alison Grimes says she’s thinking about running because [...]

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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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