Category Archives: election

Lunchbox: Super Jerry

December 11, 2008 – 12:00 pm

Jerry saves the day (so to speak): Without raising taxes or fees and avoiding layoffs, Mayor Jerry Abramson cut enough to match up the projected $20 million budget deficit. It still hasn’t shielded him from criticism from union leaders, who are upset about an additional furlough day, the increase in the take-home car program and the [...]

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Lunchbox: Jane goes bye-bye

December 2, 2008 – 12:01 pm

City CFO retires: With the city facing its worst economic crisis in nearly three decades, you have to question the timing of Jane Driskell’s retirement. The city’s chief financial officer says her decision was based on changes in the state retirement system that would result in her losing benefits if she didn’t bail before Dec. [...]

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Lunchbox: Get yr green on

November 10, 2008 – 12:00 pm

Bluegrass going green: Gov. Beshear’s office announced this morning that the state has joined The Climate Registry, a nonprofit group trying to normalize the measuring of greenhouse gases. According to the agreement, which Page One has here, the state will help develop a common method for measuring the harmful emissions and submit KY’s emissions regularly [...]

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The end of Recorder-gate

November 8, 2008 – 8:44 am

The most transparent political stunt of Mitch McConnell’s re-election campaign is officially over. A grand jury in Marshall County yesterday declined to indict Democrat Bruce Lunsford and/or members of his campaign staff for allegedly “stealing” a digital audio recorder from Richard St. Onge III, a young staffer for the National Republican Senatorial Committee who had [...]

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Shotgun full of Obama

November 7, 2008 – 11:38 am

A reader pointed out something strange in a CJ photo gallery of photos from the west Louisville celebrations on Election Day. Check out photos 13-15. LMPD officers running around with shotguns? Really? Seems excessive.

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Most calls ever to Election Fraud hotline

November 6, 2008 – 1:23 pm

We took yesterday mostly off, so we’re just getting around to this one, but it’s of at least some significance: More people called the Attorney General’s Office on Tuesday re: voting questions/complaints than ever. That said, most were procedural questions, according to a press release from AG Jack Conway we just dug up. It was [...]

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Still the King

November 4, 2008 – 11:45 pm

Billed as the most important Republican in Congress during his introduction by Kentucky State Sen. David Williams, R-Burksville, Sen. Mitch McConnell survived a close race against Democratic challenger Bruce Lunsford. Despite the Democratic tidal wave nationally, Mitch stands, setting him up as undoubtedly the most important Republican in America for the post-Bush years. Not surprisingly, [...]

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President Obama

November 4, 2008 – 10:46 pm

Slate has officially called the election for Obama. They said they would. Meanwhile, NBC has Obama up 200-90 in electoral votes. Might as well be over.

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Bar Belle is on fire!

November 4, 2008 – 10:26 pm

My goodness. LEO’s Bar Belle is out and about, tempting party-goers all over the ‘Ville to Obama her under the table. You simply must read it all here.

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Happy Birthday to Yarmuth!

November 4, 2008 – 10:11 pm

Hundreds of supporters packed into the main Marriott ballroom to hear U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth deliver his victory speech just 30 minutes ago. After a moving introduction from his son, Aaron Yarmuth, the congressman thanked the roughly 200,000 voters who cast ballots for him today, resulting in a solid win over his Republican opponent, Anne [...]

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