Tag Archives: U.S. Senate Campaign 2010

Paul wins Kentucky U.S. senate race (& a brief post-mortem)

November 2, 2010 – 9:13 pm

It’s official. All hail your new Kentucky senator, Rand Paul, aka The Man Who Would Be Jim Bunning. The Bowling Green ophthalmologist and Tea Party faux-messiah has bested  his Democratic opponent, Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway. Conway offered his congratulations from his loser’s party, held at Louisville’s downtown Marriott hotel, where the mood suggests a [...]

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Rand Paul is your new Kentucky senator

November 2, 2010 – 7:11 pm

You were surprised? Check back later for the full post-mortem…

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GOP ad calls out Conway flip-flop on Bush tax cuts

October 6, 2010 – 4:41 pm

With the general election less than four weeks away, the National Republican Senatorial Committee has unveiled an ad against Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Jack Conway that accuses the state’s attorney general of waffling on extending tax cuts enacted under former President George W. Bush: And the thing is — the ad is pretty much spot [...]

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Paul calls out Conway over energy ties

June 2, 2010 – 4:24 pm

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul took to Twitter to criticize his Democratic opponent for taking contributions from energy companies. Earlier today, Attorney General Jack Conway announced he had filed a motion to dismiss the pending rate increase requests made by Louisville Gas and Electric and its sister company Kentucky Utilities. The state’s largest providers [...]

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Election Day snooze

May 18, 2010 – 2:40 pm

Despite feverish television campaign commercials and millions of dollars raised, the news of the day for the May 18 primary is the predicted low turnout. According to Kentucky Secretary of State spokesman Les Fugate, early turnout appears to be very low and is expected to be around 30 percent statewide. Besides that we’re hearing the [...]

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Tea in Kentucky

April 26, 2010 – 12:19 pm

Over the weekend, The Courier-Journal’s editorial board decided not to endorse either candidate in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate. The newspaper spent a fair amount of ink slamming both Rand Paul and Secretary of State Trey Grayson, telling voters they couldn’t make a decision between bad and worse: From The C-J: This newspaper cannot [...]

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Paul’s Resignation Demand Out of Ths World

January 21, 2010 – 5:42 pm

U.S. Senatorial candidate and son of America’s favorite marginal revolutionary figure Rand Paul released an interesting letter today, which asks his Republican primary challenger/KY Secretary of State Trey Grayson to excuse himself from his duties as chairman of the state board of elections due to a supposed “conflict of interest.” Pertinent excerpts from the letter [...]

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For Mongiardo, Whine & Cheese Does Not A Good Rebuttal Make

January 20, 2010 – 3:54 pm

As expected, Lt. Governor Daniel Mongiardo has made a poo-poo over Jack Conway’s signing of official candidacy papers today. While thunder-stealing is, of course, a commonplace political tactic, and there are a variety of ways to rob your opponent’s sails of any apparent wind — from “pointing out the facts” to spinning the facts to [...]

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Conway On The March

January 19, 2010 – 5:06 pm

Kentucky Attorney General Jack “The Jaw” Conway is officially kicking off his Senate bid this week with a job creation-themed tour that will criss-cross the candidate from one end of the commonwealth to the other. Here’s some video of a press conference he held earlier today at the eco-minded Naturally Horton’s hardware/gardening supply store. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I64-NEnHSrc&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] [...]

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Rand Paul: Coal > Environment

December 9, 2009 – 3:51 pm

…Or so it would appear, given Dr. Paul’s opposition to recent Environmental Protection Agency findings that run counter to his support for the coal industry. You see, carbon dioxide and methane are by-products of this whole coal-burning business, and it just so happens that the EPA has deemed them “a danger to the environment and [...]

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