Showing posts with label Kentucky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kentucky. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

5 Things to Watch in Tuesday’s Primaries: Outside of Texas runoffs, this week’s action is mostly on the Democratic side

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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Kentucky: Hillary lost nearly 250,000 votes since her win in 2008. This must have Democrats nervous.







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Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Election Night – Kentucky (D) and Oregon (R and D)…





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Saturday, January 23, 2016

#Snowmaggedon2016























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Monday, January 11, 2016

Kentucky to dismantle its ObamaCare marketplace





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Thursday, November 5, 2015

Democrats have the presidency. Republicans have almost everything else.



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Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Republican wins Kentucky governor's race...

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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

CNN Tears Into Democrat Candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes Over ‘Hugh Jass’ Family Business - and minimum wage

◼ On CNN’s The Lead, Jake Tapper bashed Grimes’ claims that she is for “a living wage” and a champion of women’s issues, bringing up her family’s minimum wage-paying business, Hugh Jass Burgers, and its rather risque entree names: “Charlotte’s Rack” and “Abby’s Hugh Jass” burger. - IJ Review

("Tipped" employees in Kentucky make $2.13 an hour. $7.25 for those who don't make tips.)
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Monday, October 6, 2014

VIDEO: 'She's just got to do what she's got to do to get elected'...



◼ Grimes’ campaign workers caught on hidden camera: "It's a lying game”/Washington Free Beacon
The video, produced by conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe, shows five employees of the Grimes campaign and local Democratic Party affiliates speculating that the Democratic challenger to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) is only professing her support for the industry out of political expediency....

She’s saying something positive about coal because she wants to be elected,” said Ros Hines, a staffer in Grimes’ Lexington campaign office. “And in the state of Kentucky, if you are anti-coal, you will not get elected, period, end of conversation.”

Some Grimes supporters captured in the hidden-camera video likewise suggest that Grimes is lying about her support for the industry in order to get elected.

“She has to say that,” remarked Juanita Rodriguez of the Warren County Democratic Party. “But you know what? Politics is a game. You do what you have to do to get [elected]. … It’s a lying game unfortunately.”
◼ HIDDEN CAM: Alison Grimes campaign caught in 'lying game' - IJ Review

Will 'wipe out that coal industry'

UPDATED:

◼ ALLISON GRIMES AND THE LYING GAME - John Hayward/Human Events @Doc_o



...Grimes is one of the most hilariously phony candidates in this election cycle – there’s no Democrat who does a less convincing job of pretending to be a maverick who barely even heard of this Obama guy, and doesn’t like what little she’s heard. It doesn’t speak well of McConnell that he can’t close the deal against such a challenger in Kentucky. Maybe it will help that a new undercover video from James O’Keefe and Project Veritas makes it clear just how phony Allison Grimes is. Behind the scenes, her staffers and local Democrat Party big shots think it’s pretty funny that the rube voters of Kentucky are falling for her act...

O’Keefe and his crew long ago mastered the art of releasing their exposes in stages, with some of the best stuff bottled up for the later chapters, making it tough for the mainstream media to bury their stories. Sure enough, there’s a Part 2, in which Project Veritas goes undercover at a Grimes fundraiser, in which one of her rich supporters chirps that if she can trick Kentucky voters into sending her to the Senate, she’ll wipe out the coal industry without delay: “She’s going to f**k them as soon as she gets elected.” He makes a shushing gesture to emphasize the importance of Grimes supporters keeping quiet about this until the idiot voters have been successfully bamboozled.

There’s not much Grimes can do about this, except distance herself from her own campaign staff and supporters, just like she pretends to be the mortal enemy of President Obama. As NewsBussters notes, this bombshell hit right as Grimes was pumping out a deceptive ad trying to make McConnell look like the enemy of coal in the race.

◼ VIDEO: Grimes responds to undercover videos of her campaign workers calling her a liar: "I speak for myself." Grimes dismisses undercover videos as 'act of desperation' - WDRB

WDRB 41 Louisville News
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Mitch McConnell turns his opponent's own ad against her



◼ Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., may come across as soft-spoken, but don't let that fool you: He's got sharp elbows and a sharp staff, and when you come at him, you'd best not miss. - T. Becket Adams/Washington Examiner

Alison Lundergan Grimes, McConnell’s Democratic challenger, released a video on Monday featuring the Democratic Senate candidate talking about her plans for Kentuckians, emphasizing that she is not like President Obama, an extraordinarily unpopular figure in the Bluegrass State. Late last month, a CNN poll found that Obama's approval rating in Kentucky is only 29 percent.

McConnell’s people responded almost instantly, using Grimes’ own ad against her in their own spot...
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Saturday, May 24, 2014

Virginia aims to stamp out (308,000) double-dipping voters

◼ Around 308,000 Virginia voters may also be registered elsewhere, an analysis of 22 states’ election records found, according to Watchdog.org. - Washington Examiner

The results, which were originally reported by the Virginia Voters Alliance, found around 308,000 double registrations by matching names, birth dates and the last four digits of Social Security numbers.

...How many of the double-registered voters cast multiple ballots in a single election is unknown, though the VVA revealed it has so far found 164 individuals who voted in both Virginia and Maryland in 2012.

Don Palmer, the secretary of Virginia’s State Board of Elections, said efforts are being made to contact Virginia voters who may be double-registered.
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Monday, January 6, 2014

OBAMACARE SCREW-UP: Rand Paul’s Son Signed Up For Medicaid Without His Permission



◼ “For a month they wouldn’t talk to him because they said they weren’t sure he existed. He had to go down to the welfare office, prove his existence, then next thing we know, we get a Medicaid card.” - Right Wing News
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Sunday, April 14, 2013

Democrat recants story of Kentucky Progress members taping McConnell meeting

◼ The Democrat who implicated two members of the liberal super PAC Progress Kentucky in the secret taping of a campaign strategy meeting for Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell is changing his story. - FOX

Jacob Conway, a member of the Jefferson County Democratic Executive Committee, said Friday he might have talked to only one of the men he accused, ◼ according to The Courier-Journal.

Conway told the newspaper he is certain he talked with volunteer Curtis Morrison about the recording, but might not have spoken with Executive Director Shawn Reilly, contradicting what he said a day earlier.
“I had a lot of conversations with both of them during that time period, and maybe I was just confused, and maybe Shawn never said anything,” Conway said.

...Conway changed his story after a lawyer for Reilly said Conway lied about his client’s role. The lawyer also said Reilly had complied with FBI and U.S. attorney office probes.

The newspaper story also points out Conway made a plea agreement in 2006 to felony theft charges.

(Shouse pointed out a 2005 criminal case in which Conway was accused of stealing money from the office safe at the Jefferson County attorney’s office while working as a clerk there, as well as from the Log Cabin Republicans, a national GOP group that advocates equality for gays and lesbians.

Conway entered an Alford plea in 2006 to felony theft by unlawful taking, meaning he did not admit guilt but agreed there was enough evidence to convict him. He was put on diversion and agreed to pay $2,800 to the county attorney’s office and $670 to the Log Cabin Republicans.)
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

“Once you had the county clerk and once you had the Democratic commissioner, you had control,” he said

◼ Drug money funds voter fraud in Kentucky - Eric Shawn/FOX
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Obama loses 40% of the vote in two Democratic primaries

◼ Barack Obama had no national primary challengers in his second nomination race in most states, including Kentucky. Who knew it would still be a tough choice for voters? - Ed Morrisey/HotAir

Kentucky voters in the Democratic primary preferred the empty slot to the empty suit, apparently:
About two out of every five Democratic voters in Tuesday’s presidential primary in Kentucky chose “uncommitted” instead of voting for President Barack Obama.
That’s not the worst of it. Obama may end up losing as many as half of Kentucky’s counties to “Uncommitted” as well:
Kentucky’s vote was notable, though, for the fact that there weren’t even any other candidates on the ballot. The most the “uncommitted” option won so far this primary season was previously 21 percent in the North Carolina primary earlier this month. Kentucky looks as though it will double that number.

In addition, Obama looked as though he may lose more than half of the state’s 120 counties.
On top of the embarrassing results in Kentucky, Obama also lost 40% of the Democratic vote in Bill Clinton’s home state yesterday, too. So far, challenger John Wolfe has 41% of the vote with 67 of 75 Arkansas counties reporting. Wolfe appears to be carrying almost half of the counties in Arkansas as well, just as “Uncommitted” did in Kentucky.

◼ ARKANSAS AND KENTUCKY DON'T HAVE BARACK'S BACK - Ben Shapiro/Breitbart
◼ KENTUCKY: OBAMA LOSES NEARLY TWO-THIRDS OF COUNTIES TO 'UNCOMMITTED' - Breitbart News
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Obama struggles in Kentucky, Arkansas Primaries

◼ President Barack Obama continued to have trouble on Tuesday performing in Democratic primaries in traditionally conservative states, barely eking out wins in Kentucky and Arkansas. - Ginger Gibson/Politico

The president didn’t even have an opponent in Kentucky, but with 99 percent of the vote counted, Obama took just 57.9 percent of the vote, with the remaining more than 42 percent of ballots cast for “uncommitted.”

In Arkansas, with 70 percent of the vote tallied, Obama nabbed just 59 percent of the vote. His opponent there, John Wolfe, was able to take 41 percent of the vote at that point, according to The Associated Press....

Obama has had trouble this year in Democratic primaries in conservative states. When West Virginians headed to the polls earlier this month, nearly 43 percent of Democratic primary voters opted for Keith Judd, a convicted felon currently serving time in a Texas federal prison. Republicans seized on Obama losing a handful of counties in West Virginia, pointing to it as proof that even Democrats aren’t happy with the incumbent.
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