McCONNELL- Hedging his bets?

When Senator Jim Bunning exclaimed, " My God, he's trying to run everything" regarding Mitch McConnell, it was a very revealing statement. It's Mitch's way, or the Highway, some say. While Senator Bunning IS the more conservative of the two senators, Mitch has fallen far from the Conservative tree. And he feels the heat from conservative republicans, independents, and conservative democrats. So much so, that he is now hedging his bets with Trey Grayson.

Grayson who was previously a democrat, and former delegate for Bill Clinton, now turned republicrat is getting some help from a former McConnell Aide. Upon Joe Gerth's Blog Page with the Courier Journal the story is told.

Justin Brassell, who ran U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell's 2008 reelection campaign, is now helping Secretary of State Trey Grayson in his non-campaign for U.S. Senate. Grayson has created an exploratory committee and said he has no plans to challenge Sen. Jim Bunning, but is beginning to look more and more like an actual candidate. In an interview Wednesday night, Brassell said he is serving as a volunteer advisor to Grayson. He said that if Grayson decides to get into the race, his role with the campaign may be formalized but that he doesn't see himself moving back to Kentucky from South Dakota, where he is running Sen. John Thune's reelection campaign. Thune could be a a candidate for president in 2012.

Brassell said he and Grayson plan to meet and talk this week in Minnesota while Grayson is there for a National Association of Secretaries of State conference. "It's only a four-hour drive," he said.

Many conservative voters have grown wise to the "politics as usual" in the Republican Party of Kentucky. They have reviewed the records of McConnell and Bunning and they see that they are looking less and less conservative, McConnell being the lesser conservative of the two. And again while Jim Bunning has been the more conservative of the two, he has been less conservative on issues that have enlarged the size of government. Jim Bunnings service has been appreciated.

NEW BLOOD

Many conservative voters are already lining up behind an exploratory candidate who stands upon the principles of a true conservative.

Rand Paul, an eye surgeon from Bowling Green Kentucky, and the Son of Texas Congressman Ron Paul, announced his exploratory committee and the growing grassroots support is becoming a phenomenon.

With a clear vision for Kentucky, and a deeply experienced understanding of the current monetary crisis in the country, Rand Paul's message is resonating with conservative voters, and it's about time they had a candidate they can actually believe in.

To learn more about Rand Paul go to www.randpaul2010.com/issues/

Governor Beshear Wastes 2 Million on a Propaganda Program

Your Tax dollars are being confiscated by the "takings coalition" to give to Government entities and Non-Governmental Organizations.

Today, Steve Beshear announced the wasteful use of 2 million dollars on a failed radical feminist propaganda pork program that subverts due process of law. False allegations will suffice.


New Press Releases:

Gov. Beshear announces $2 million in stimulus funds for Violence Against Women grantsURL : http://kentucky.gov/Newsroom/governor/20090710vawgrants.htmDate : Friday, July 10, 2009Issued By : Governor Steve Beshear's Communications Office Summary : Gov. Steve Beshear today announced that $2 million in stimulus funds would be available for supplemental public safety grants through the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Services, Training, Officers, Prosecution (STOP) grant program. The grant program will provide funding opportunities for victim services projects throughout the Commonwealth.
Eligible applicants are state and local government agencies and not-for-profit agencies.

A Different Kind of Republican

'I have little interest in streamlining government or making it more efficient for I mean to reduce it,'" Paul said, as one of his favorite quotes from the late Sen. Barry Goldwater, a champion among conservatives.


Paul, who spent the weekend in Northern Kentucky, said the GOP has lost its way and that a more conservative voice representing Kentucky is needed in Washington.

Recalling Reagan and quoting Goldwater, Paul spent more than an hour talking to and taking questions from about 25 local business owners, political activists and others.

They gathered at the invitation of developer Matt Toebben, meeting with Paul in the board room of his Crescent Springs office building.

Republicans, Paul said, have lost their "believability" by contributing to federal deficits and debt during the George W. Bush years and when the GOP held Congress.

During his talk Paul touched some of the major tenets of his campaign platform including allowing school vouchers, eliminating the federal department of education, promoting marketplace solutions in the debate over health care reform, adhering to the U.S. Constitution when passing laws and trimming federal spending.

Paul said he has no plans to take Bunning on, but he pointed out that Bunning said he is in the race as long as he hits his fund-raising goals. The next campaign finance report is due in mid-July and many contributors to Bunning's past campaigns are now supporting Grayson or Paul.
"We need some new energy, and we need some new direction," Paul said.

"If Jim Bunning doesn't run," Paul said, "we need to have a primary."

We must take Kentucky and America Back.
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Socialized Frankfort

Kentuckians have something new to fear besides an ever increasing socialist federal government. Frankfort has now rocketed down the slippery slope to hell in a handbasket, when Governor Steve Beshear called a special session, and the general assembly went lock step in tow to allegedly "bail out" the horse industry. Like Washington, Frankfort now thinks it must determine the market, bailout and slant it in favor of certain industries.

The Kentucky House of Representatives voted 52-45 passing -SS 09 - HB 2 - expanding gambling (code word) 'Lottery" terminals at horse tracks, while eliminating sales taxes on certain equine industry items. HB 2 was also an illegal omnibus bill with multiple topics couched in. Shame on those Republicans, who voted for this "bailout", for failing to follow the constitution and failing to stand up against an illegal omnibus bill.

See HB 2 WWW version here. See your Legislators voting record here.

It has been said this bill will not pass the Senate. We will see.