Posts Tagged ‘Kentucky’

Check out the latest RSLC ad in Kentucky below:

From WEKU.com:

Democrats currently outnumber Republicans 65-35 in the Kentucky House, but Republicans are hoping that will change November 2nd and voters will give them control. If they do, House Republican Leader Jeffrey Hoover is promising open and honest government.

“It’s time for new leadership that will make government fiscally responsible – a government that works under the saying of government of, for and by the people,”said Hoover.

House Republicans are pre-filing legislation requiring lawmakers to forfeit their pay if a special session is needed because of failure to approve a budget. Another measure would require any bill that raises taxes or spends tax dollars to be made available to the public and lawmakers at least 48 hours before a vote.

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From Courier-Journal:

Some leading Republicans are promoting the idea that two of the party’s possible gubernatorial candidates next year — Senate President David Williams and Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer — should team up as a slate for governor and lieutenant governor with Williams in the top spot.

“Richie running with David is really the only credible talk that I’m hearing lately,” said Ellen Williams, a former chairwoman of the state Republican Party. “I think that would be a formidable ticket and one that Kentuckians would be excited about.”

Larry Forgy, the GOP’s 1995 candidate for governor, said a Williams-Farmer ticket would be the best the party could field.

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From Courier-Journal:

But a chain of events that began the day after the election has Conway scrambling to bring into his tent Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo, who lost the primary by 4,174 votes, 0.8 percent of the total, and said last week that he might not endorse Conway.

The margin was small enough to prompt an automatic recanvass in many states, and Mongiardo said the morning after the primary that he would ask for one. Conway’s camp said that would complicate its efforts to start fund-raising for the general election, so a deal was struck: Mongiardo forsook the recanvass in return for Conway’s pledge to help raise $70,000 for Mongiardo’s campaign, according to advisers in both camps. The agreement did not call for Mongiardo to endorse Conway, but was the beginning of a process that would naturally lead to an endorsement.

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From Courier-Journal:

The May primary election will be a first for Mark Slaughter, candidate in the Republican primary for Bullitt County’s 49th District House seat.

His challenger, Russell Webber, has been a candidate three times, once coming within 36 votes of victory.

Slaughter is funding his campaign with $780 of his money, while Webber has raised $4,758, mostly by reaching out to residents who have given to conservative Republicans in the past, he said.

And that’s where a lot of the men’s differences end.

Both have taken a grassroots approach to campaigning, sticking to door-to-door introductions, and in Slaughter’s case, Facebook and web pages to gain support.

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