October 15, 2009 – 11:25 am
Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson raised $642,857 for his U.S. Senate campaign in the year’s third quarter, according to a campaign press release. The Republican U.S. Senate candidate filed his finance report today with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and has raised a total of $1,245,992 to date with more than $1 million on [...]
October 14, 2009 – 2:50 pm
The lame controversy over the latest Possibility City ad campaign that is being peddled by the humorless Louisville Metro Councilman Doug Hawkins, R-25, who called the ads “poor taste,” has gone national. In a voicemail message that he left after our interview, the south Louisville Republican highlighted that Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly jumped on [...]
October 14, 2009 – 1:00 pm
In an attempt to inspire new leadership and fresh ideas in the race for mayor, Metro Councilman Brent Ackerson, D-26, said he plans to introduce a resolution before the council that would encourage the Kentucky General Assembly to amend Louisville’s merger law and set shorter mayoral term limits. The freshman councilman’s idea has sparked a [...]
October 14, 2009 – 12:39 pm
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul has a viral video featuring a Kentucky version of the Obama Girl.
From Bluegrass Bulletin:
Well folks, here it is, the “Rand Song” video from Wendy Macy. I don’t know, but we might just have a new “Gene Snyder” jingle in the making:
The Bowling Green ophthalmologist, who is the son of [...]
October 13, 2009 – 12:05 pm
Playing the dozens: After announcing that the Louisville African-American Think Tank will be hosting monthly political forums in west Louisville that will focus on the mayoral race, the Rev. Gerome Sutton made it a point to tell The Courier-Journal, “The West End does not know (Metro Councilman) David Tandy.” One prominent Tandy supporter has taken [...]
October 9, 2009 – 1:05 pm
In an act that would be the first amendment to merger law since city and county governments combined in 2003, Louisville Metro Councilman Brent Ackerson, D-26, will introduce a resolution urging state lawmakers to change the number of consecutive years a person can hold the office of mayor from three terms to two.
At a news [...]
October 9, 2009 – 12:21 pm
The Fairness Campaign’s call to boycott Woody’s Tavern over another alleged racial incident involving the bar’s owner, David Norton, was covered in The Advocate this week. The national news magazine is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the country.
From The Advocate:
Now, a group called the Fairness Campaign is urging Louisville residents to ditch Woody’s by [...]
October 8, 2009 – 12:01 pm
Rain on Jerry’s parade: During a committee meeting in which a senior adviser to Mayor Jerry Abramson said the city “moved pretty quickly” in picking up curbside debris after the Aug. 4 flash flood, Metro Councilwoman Judy Green, D-1, blasted Abramson and said it was was “unconscionable” he did not immediately dispatch Public Works [...]
October 7, 2009 – 3:59 pm
The mayoral candidates have filed their first round of campaign finance reports with the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance and here’s what we know thus far:
Louisville businessman Greg Fischer’s campaign has raised $220, 295, the most of any other candidate. The former U.S. Senate candidate has has already spent $70,337 on hiring staff, booth rentals [...]
October 6, 2009 – 12:01 pm
Money men: As the local punditry predicted, mayoral candidates Greg Fischer and Metro Councilman Jim King, D-10, are the fundraising leaders. Both topped $200,000 in campaign contributions, leaving the other candidates in the dust. It’s still early and the dollar derby isn’t all that matters. Besides polls it’s the only crude way reporters can measure [...]
