Thursday, September 18, 2014

Today's Political Headlines


Grimes' grandmother stars in ad blasting McConnell's Medicare votes

09/18/2014 09:54 AM
Elsie Case, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes’ maternal grandmother, plays a key part in Grimes’ latest television ad released Thursday, recounting her husband’s stoke and the couple’s struggle to make ends meet. The ad, titled “Proud Man,” also features Grimes attacking Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s votes on Republican budgets, which didn’t pass, that would have altered the Medicare system. Case, who also played a prominent role in a light-hearted ad credited with Grimes’ victory in her 2011 secretary... Read more 

Democrats looking to recapture 62nd House district seat with challenger hand picked by Beshear

09/18/2014 08:25 AM
GEORGETOWN – The 62nd district House race features a young two-term Republican incumbent being challenged by a lifelong farmer who was hand picked to enter the race by Gov. Steve Beshear. Rep. Ryan Quarles, R-Georgetown, is being challenged by farmer and business owner Chuck Tackett, who is currently a magistrate on the Scott County fiscal court. The makeup of the district changed significantly during the 2013 redistricting process. It now encompasses most of Scott County, including part of downtown Georgetown,... Read more 

Challenger uses Democratic lawmaker's comments about women's underwear against him in campaign ad

09/17/2014 03:40 PM
A western Kentucky Democratic lawmaker’s remarks about a pair of women’s underwear have resurfaced in a television ad from his Republican challenger this fall. Rep. Jim Gooch, D-Providence, had his conduct at a legislative conference questioned after he blocked a House resolution from a floor vote in April that would have supported two female legislative staffers who brought allegations of sexual harassment against former Democratic Rep. John Arnold last year. Thomas Clay, who represents Legislative Research Commission employees Yolanda Costner and... Read more 

Doctors and concerned parents say government should "be ashamed" of lack of funding for pediatric cancer

09/17/2014 03:19 PM
LOUISVILLE — In an emotional meeting of the Interim Joint Committee on Health & Welfare Tuesday, parents of young cancer patients and the doctors who treat them pleaded with lawmakers to make funding for pediatric cancer a priority. Lobbyist Jamie Bloyd was first to testify in front of the interim committee Wednesday at the office of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky where she told legislators the story of her son’s diagnosis. Her son, Paxton Bloyd was diagnosed with Stage 4... Read more 

Fiscal mismanagement, administrative and faculty differences led to troubles in Fayette County Schools, Audit finds

09/17/2014 02:15 PM
Uncommunicative administrators, mismanagement of financials and weak policies led to financial instability of the Fayette County School System, an audit conduct by Auditor Adam Edelen’s office found. Edelen announced the findings of the audit on Wednesday after initial allegations were made indicating possible criminal wrong doing — something Edelen said his audit did not uncover. “We found no evidence of criminal activity,” Edelen said. “However, we did find chronic mismanagement of the district’s budget and finances which has contributed to... Read more 
University of Kentucky officials say they didn't mean to surprise a group of high school journalism students with the racist rantings of a U.S. Senate write-in candidate at a Constitution…Click to Continue » [...]
Thu, Sep 18, 2014 6:36:00 PM, Continue reading at the source

Facing off in one of the most contested Senate races in the nation, Colorado Democratic Sen. Mark Udall and his Republican challenger, Rep. Cory Gardner, found something to agree on…Click to Continue » [...]
Thu, Sep 18, 2014 7:10:00 AM, Continue reading at the source

Kentucky is arguably one of the Affordable Care Act's biggest early success stories, with about 10 percent of the population getting coverage through the state's online insurance marketplace and none…Click to Continue » [...]
Thu, Sep 18, 2014 3:43:00 AM, Continue reading at the source

After a six-hour debate, the U.S. House approved a bipartisan measure to train and arm Syrian rebels fighting the Islamic State on Wednesday.Congress adopted an amendment to the spending bill allowing the Obama administration to provide aid against the terrorist group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which is also referred to as ISIS, or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. [...]
Thu, Sep 18, 2014 12:24:00 AM, Continue reading at the source

Fact-checkers at The Washington Post and PolitiFact, a project of the Tampa Bay Times, have been busy researching the claims made by Kentucky's U.S. Senate candidates (Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes) and their surrogates during the first 17 days of September. Here's what they found. Immigration: A television ad aired by the Kentucky Opportunity Coalition, which the Washington Post described as "an independent group with connections to Republican strategist Karl Rove," earned three Pinocchios (the equivalent of mostly false) from Post Fact Checker Glenn Kessler on Sept. 17. The ad claimed Grimes is a [...]
Wed, Sep 17, 2014 7:24:00 PM, Continue reading at the source

Kentucky U.S. Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes received a boost from the most prominent pro-coal Democrat in Washington in her slugfest with Republican Leader Mitch McConnell this fall.Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., waded into the contest Wednesday and said Grimes would be an ally to the coal industry and miners if elected. [...]
Wed, Sep 17, 2014 7:01:00 PM, Continue reading at the source

The leader of a national labor union said Wednesday Kentucky’s U.S. Senate race is a top priority for organized labor that could define the country’s direction over the next two decades. [...]
Wed, Sep 17, 2014 5:22:00 PM, Continue reading at the source
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