November 20, 2009 – 10:36 am
The mayoral campaign for Metro Councilman Jim King, D-10, is in hot water with St. X High School after sending an unauthorized e-mail using the school’s alumni association logo that went out to an unknown number of former students.
The e-mail promotion sent out late yesterday afternoon attaches King’s biography as the “Son of St. X [...]
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 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 2, 2009 – 5:58 pm
Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway has named a special prosecutor to investigate the campaign contributions that Louisville Metro Councilman Jim King, D-10, gave to his daughter, Jefferson County District Judge Katie King, in her 2008 campaign. Shelby County Attorney Hart Megibbon has been appointed to review a criminal complaint filed against the Kings by Louisville activist [...]
September 17, 2009 – 1:41 pm
Like 60 or so other people, I dropped by the waterfront yesterday morning for Tyler Allen’s first public foray into campaign politics, a 15-minute or so speech announcing his candidacy for mayor. He stood on a makeshift stage just feet away from the edge of our Mighty Ohio River, on a day on which the [...]
September 16, 2009 – 12:01 pm
The King and I: In this week’s Jerry’s kids we sat down with Metro Councilman Jim King, D-10, to talk about a few issues. The hard-knocks councilman is a leading candidate for mayor who knows government and business policy well. But the King campaign hit its first snag yesterday. According to a preliminary report by [...]
September 15, 2009 – 3:48 pm
Tyler Allen, co-founder of 8664.org, announced today he is leaving the organization to run for mayor of Louisville. The announcement, sent in an e-mail blast to the 12,000-some registered supporters of the initiative to tear down a stretch of waterfront highway to make way for development and greenspace, comes as little surprise, as Allen filed [...]
September 14, 2009 – 10:40 am
Louisville Metro Councilman Hal Heiner, R-19, will announce his mayoral candidacy tomorrow morning, according to a release sent by the Jefferson County Republican Party. Heiner will be the second Republican to enter the race, joining local developer and political activist Chris Thieneman, who launched a campaign earlier this month.
“Learn about his track record as a [...]
September 9, 2009 – 4:35 pm
Louisville businessman Tyler Allen has filed a letter of intent with the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance that allows him to begin raising and spending money in a campaign for mayor of Louisville. The letter indicates he will run as a Democrat.
This means it’s official: Allen is in.
Four other Democrats have already announced their mayoral [...]
