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Posted on: August 5, 2009
 Rand Paul officially announced he is a candidate for the GOP nomination for the seat currently held by Jim Bunning. Secretary of State Trey Grayson is the acknowledged frontrunner on the Republican side.
Paul describes himself as an "outsider" in politics. That's a similar characterization to his father, Ron Paul's, political career.
If he runs the same kind of campaign that Dad ran in presidential race in a smaller pond, there will be fireworks ahead on the GOP side of the ballot.
Posted on: August 5, 2009
The Dan Mongiardo for Senate team seems to have gotten a break in their weather since last weekend’s slip of the tongue put opponent Jack Conway on the defensive for the first time since the two men announced their intentions of running for Sen. Jim Bunning’s seat in the US Congress.
Posted on: August 5, 2009
Joint agreement reached between Murray State University and Madisonville Community College
The agreement allows MCC students with 30 to 45 transferable credit hours to be jointly admitted to MSU. Students will follow transfer frameworks for their program of interest at Murray.
Posted on: August 4, 2009
8/4/84 "Ivan C. Potter and Mary B. Gardner request the pleasure of your company to share a moment of their happiness"
Twenty five years ago today was our wedding day. We're still celebrating being crazy (about each other) after all these years.
WARNING: Sentimental journey down memory lane ahead.
Posted on: August 4, 2009
A pair of sentences in reporter Joseph Gerth’s Courier-Journal story about the Fancy Farm picnic jumped out at me:
-- “The two top Democratic candidates in next year's U.S. Senate race abandoned any pretense of civility…”
-- “The top two Republicans trained most of their fire on Democrats.”
Posted on: August 3, 2009
Bluegrass Politics is reporting that Attorney General Jack Conway issued an apology today, saying:
“I apologize to picnic organizers, parishioners and guests that I got caught up in the fiery rhetoric that is a trademark of Fancy Farm and made a remark in reference to myself that I should not have,” he said in the statement. “When someone attacks my family with statements that are simply untrue, I am passionate in their defense and fight back, just as I am passionate and fight everyday for issues that are important to Kentucky families…” the rest of the story
Good for Conway for apologizing. We don’t remember any attacks on his family – but we couldn’t hear what the hecklers were saying from the crowd either.
Posted on: August 2, 2009
Lt. Governor Dan Mongiardo went home from Fancy Farm weekend with some positives. He didn’t give the best speech at Fancy Farm, but he didn’t give the worst, either.
His supporters came in green med gear to cheer him on.
Posted on: August 2, 2009
Whatever his political fate, Paul can congratulate himself on the best speech at Fancy Farm 2009. He told the crowd that both parties were guilty of hypocrisy, pointing out moral lapses by elected Republicans and tax avoidance issues of Democrats. Paul promised to introduce legislation to force every lawmaker to read bills before voting on them. At one point, he held the massive stimulus bill over his head to illustrate the point that no one read the bill before passing it.
Posted on: August 2, 2009
Democrats who harbor the hope that Grayson will be a sort of Blue Dog Republican will be sorely mistaken. Grayson’s attack theme is clearly McConnellesque. There will be no bipartisanship in Senator Grayson's future - not if he wants to carry the mantle of his role model, Mitch McConnell. Anyone who thinks otherwise is fooling themselves.
Posted on: August 2, 2009
It has been reported in other blogs and newspapers that Jack Conway’s quote of Wendell Ford’s SOB comment was offensive to some in attendance. Various news organizations, including a particularly gleeful account in the Paducah Sun, reported that locals were not happy that mouth-washing-out language was used in front of the St. Jerome Parish’s new priest and their beloved bishop emeritus.
While not shocked at four letter words or in this case a five letter word, (I would sell my television if I were), the venue was inappropriate. Conway owes an apology to the people of St. Jerome Parish.
Posted on: August 2, 2009
  
Three other candidates faced the Fancy Farm crowd at the 2009 picnic. No matter how good (or bad) a candidate's chances, they take this speech very seriously.
Posted on: August 2, 2009
I had a chance to interview Miller on Friday evening at the Marshall County Bean Soup Supper. Here's what he said about federal stimulus dollars and where they went:
"We were assuming that the stimulus funds were going to be used for what they call “shovel ready projects”. We have pipe on the ground. We’re ready to start laying water lines. Then all of a sudden, we are using that money to balance the state budget. Now, you’re putting a patch on that thing. You’re not going to solve problems by using stimulus money to balance the budget.
For Miller's Senate pick and his future plans - click through
Posted on: August 2, 2009
By: Story by Mary Potter, Photos by Ivan Potter
The Marshall County Democrats Bean Soup Supper at Kentucky Dam Village on Friday evening didn’t have the crowd it has boasted in election years, but pols local and state showed up with their supporters for some partisan rhetoric, bean soup, cornbread and watermelon and to raise money for the Marshall County Democratic Party. We were there, camera and notepad in hand.
Kentucky battery research and development funding receives U.S. House approval
$5 million for research, development and engineering of advanced energy storage systems
From the press release".....No date has been set for a vote in the Senate on the DOD appropriation. Talks are already underway to find a suitable location for the Kentucky R&D facility in Central Kentucky."
YO. Governor.
We have huge open spaces out here in West Kentucky perfect for large battery operations.
Wow. Lowell Reese has taken three weeks to come up with a post on his blog, but the result is well worth the wait. His analysis of how Governor Steve Beshear is working to get a slots bill passed before the 2010 session is old time analytic journalism at its best. The answer? Turn a red chamber blue by luring away senators with juicy jobs and juicer retirement packages.
Reese documents how the Law of Unintended Consequences may weaken the Republican majority in the Kentucky Senate. It seems a little known law passed in 2005 under Governor Ernie Fletcher allows legislators with the time in to retire to work in government for three years and use their full time government salaries as their “high three” to calculate their retirement pay.
The Government Accounting Office said Tuesday tha tthe USPS is now on the GAO's "HIgh Risk List". That can't be a good thing.
Kentuckians for the Commonwealth are planning a field trip to the Fancy Farm Picnic on Saturday according to an email blast sent out by Dave Newton of KFTC. The group will be at Fancy Farm to "cut through a lot of the partisan posturing and talk to people (including candidates and elected officials) about real issues facing Kentucky".
Members will be talking about voting rights and distributing 1,000 bumper stickers.
For more information on the organization or to meet up with the group when they come, email
Dave@KFTC.org
Tim Kaltenbach, Commonwealth Attorney for McCracken County, Lanny King of Stout Farmer & King and Chris McNeill are the three nominees for the circuit judge position in McCracken County vacated by Judge Jeff Hines in January.
It’s E-D-E-L-E-N.
Not Edelman or Edelstein or Edelin, as some recently mispronounced and misspelled Adam Edelen’s name. Remember that name and that spelling. It’s attached to a 34 year old who, unless he does something stupid (which Kentucky politicians have been known to do), has a long career in public life ahead of him.
He's Out! That’s what Jack Brammer and the Lexington Herald are reporting about Senator Jim Bunning. He’s not running again for re-election. He can’t raise the money to run. And he’s blaming the senior senator from Kentucky – Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Read what the junior senator and his supporters have to say about McConnell. So far, there are at least two GOP candidates waiting to get into the race. Bluegrass Politics
Former reporter Al Cross will be the emcee at the Fancy Farm Picnic next Saturday. This is quite a change of gig for Cross who spent his journalistic first Saturdays in August sweating out a story from West Kentucky for the Courier Journal in Louisville.
Fortunately for Al, the hijinks of years past - marches, skits, drowning out the speaker with catcalls and chants - have been quieted somewhat by the increased presence of law enforcement in recent years.
Cross can be ringmaster where past emcees have been lion tamers.
The pig was the real star of a five county Democratic Rally held on Saturday. About a hundred hungry River Countians turned out for pork and political rhetoric.
More photos after the jump..
Fish Lake in Ballard County is one of several bodies of water subject of a "don't eat the fish" warning issued by three state agencies on Friday morning. Mercury and PCBs contaminants found in the fish can be especially harmful to pregnant women.
For the detailed advisory and complete warning, follow the link.
In response to requests from hundreds of Clinton residents protesting the requested 50% rate increase by Water Services Inc., the Kentucky Public Service Commission will hold a public hearing in Clinton on August 13th.
 When asked if their early announcement would hurt the fund raising efforts of the two Democratic senatorial candidates, Dan Mongiardo who is supported by the Governor, and Jack Conway, Abramson’s pick, the Governor said, “I don’t think it will hurt it all. Both of them are running hard and they are different races.”
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