Katie Stine contemplates next career move after 20 years in General Assembly
10/07/2014 12:10 PM
State Senate Pro Tem Katie Stine will be finishing up a 20-year career in the General Assembly, the last 16 in the Senate, at the end of this year. Stine leaves the Senate with bitter disappointment that her signature bill, Senate Bill 5, known as the heroin bill, failed to pass the House the last day of the session. “We bent over backwards, we even used language that they (the House) recommended in the bill,” Stine said. “I can’t understand how anyone... Read more 
Heiner raises $56,000 in latest quarter but says his focus remains on state House races
10/07/2014 10:50 AM
Republican Hal Heiner has collected about $56,000 for his gubernatorial bid in the latest fundraising quarter, but he says the light third-quarter haul shows he has kept his promise to focus on GOP candidates for state House. Heiner reported $56,492 to the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance, pushing his fundraising total to $4.45 million since he formed a ticket with former Republican Party of Kentucky official K.C. Crosbie in March. The Louisville businessman has loaned his campaign $4.2 million of that... Read more
Conway raises nearly $400,000 for 2015 gubernatorial campaign in quarter, pushing total to $1.1 million
10/07/2014 10:05 AM
Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway raised nearly $400,000 in the latest fundraising quarter, giving the Democratic hopeful more than $1.1 million raised since he entered the race in early May. Conway’s campaign announced the $397,539 raised late Monday, which The Lexington Herald-Leader first reported . The Democratic hopeful has $978,044 cash on hand in his campaign coffers. “Great results for two straight reporting periods show the strength of our campaign and that we are uniting Democrats behind our ticket for the 2015... Read more
James Comer nets more than half a million in 22 days for his gubernatorial bid
10/06/2014 08:00 PM
Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner James Comer netted $540,000 for his Republican gubernatorial bid next year, his campaign announced Monday. The Lexington Herald-Leader first reported the total, which Comer’s campaign said comes from about 800 donors representing 71 of Kentucky’s 120 counties. Monday marked the deadline for the third fundraising quarter, and Comer’s haul comes 22 days after he launched his GOP bid alongside state Sen. Chris McDaniel, R-Taylor Mill. Holly Harris VonLuehrte, a Comer campaign aide, called the third-quarter fundraising report... Read more
Louisville Democrat Neville Blakemore files for state treasurer in 2015
10/06/2014 04:41 PM
Neville Blakemore, a Louisville Democrat and executive chairman of Great Northern Building Products, has filed to run for state treasurer next year. The Kentucky Registry of Election Finance confirmed that Blakemore filed a letter of intent to begin raising and spending more in the race. His first fundraising report will cover the last quarter of this year. Blakemore could not be reached for comment by Pure Politics, but a campaign website with a red, white and blue campaign logo came online... Read more
Legal issues, evolving voting patterns at the center of 6th House District race
10/06/2014 03:46 PM
The 6th House District race may not look like a premiere contest at first blush, but the changing political landscape of western Kentucky coupled with the legal fight of the incumbent Democrat have made for an interesting contest heading into Nov. 4. Three-term incumbent state Rep. Will Coursey, D-Symsonia, has a healthy fundraising lead with nearly $56,000 in the bank while his Republican challenger Keith Travis, an executive a Murray Calloway County Hospital, has around $25,000 in his campaign coffers. But... Read more
Leaked Bluegrass Poll results show Grimes up 2 percent as online national survey has McConnell leading by 4
10/06/2014 11:23 AM
UPDATED: The day of the latest Bluegrass Poll’s release, an apparently premature posting by pollster SurveyUSA showing Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes ahead of Kentucky U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell by 2 percent. The link , first reported on Twitter by Insider Louisville’s Joe Sonka, has Grimes ahead of McConnell 46 percent to 44 percent among 632 likely voters with a 4 percent margin of error. Liberterian candidate has 3 percent support with 7 percent of respondents undecided, according to the poll results. Regardless... Read more
Republican James Comer got his campaign for governor off to a fast start, raising $534,000 in 22 days after announcing his candidacy September 13 in Tompkinsville.Click to Continue » [...]
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Conway raises $400,000 for gubernatorial bid, bringing total to $1.5 million
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"Great results for two straight reporting periods show the strength of our campaign and that we are uniting Democrats behind our ticket for the 2015 governor's race," Jack Conway, the…Click to Continue » [...]
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By Jack Brammer jbrammer@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT – Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway’s campaign for governor raised $397,539 in the last three months, bringing his total fundraising to about $1.15 million since entering the Democratic primary earlier this year. Conway's campaign also reported late Monday that it had about $1 million on hand. “Great results for two straight reporting periods show the strength of our campaign and that we are uniting Democrats behind our ticket for the 2015 governor’s race,” Conway said in a statement. Conway said he and his running, state Rep. Sannie Overly of Paris, “remain focused on the Kentucky House races and Alison Lundergan [...]
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Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner James Comer raised more than half a million dollars during his first three weeks as an announced candidate in the 2015 gubernatorial race.Click to Continue » [...]
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By Jack Brammer jbrammer@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT – A national group focused on electing Republican state legislators has started sending out hard-hitting mailers to help the GOP try to gain control of the Kentucky House for the first time since 1921. Jill Bader, communications director for the Republican State Leadership Committee, said in an email Monday that the group has “consistently named the Kentucky House as top of our targets for a pick up this year.” Republicans now control 60 of 99 legislative chambers in the country, including the Kentucky Senate. Bader also said the RSLC, based in Washington, D.C., has begun “a significant six-figure multi-platform independent [...]
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