From Forward Kentucky: Bevin’s racist (and fake) ad draws national attention
The Daily Kos Elections team posts daily updates during election season, and today, our own Governor Bevin got the top spot. Not for his fund-raising, mind you, or for a new poll – but for his racist “be scared of the brown people” ad.
Here’s the post:
Morning Digest: Kentucky’s GOP governor, trailing in polls, resorts to desperate racism in new ad
KY-Gov: Fundraising reports covering the period of May 22 through Sept. 6 were due for candidates running in November’s gubernatorial election late last week, and they show Democrat Andy Beshear outraising Republican Gov. Matt Bevin, who has also trailed in the few polls we’ve seen here recently.
During the reporting period, Beshear brought in $2.8 million, spent $1.5 million, and had $1.3 million left heading into the final two months of the campaign. Bevin, meanwhile, raised $2 million but supplemented that haul with a $500,000 personal loan and had $1.6 million in his campaign account. According to disclosure forms he filed when he ran for Senate in 2014, Bevin’s net worth was as much as $60 million, so he can write more fat checks whenever he likes.