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MOREHEAD -- House Minority Floor Leader Rocky Adkins won Rowan County in last month’s Democratic primary election for governor with 89 percent of the vote. On Monday, he asked those voters to flip their support to the man who beat him statewide: Attorney General Andy Beshear.
“We need to flip that over,” Adkins told a crowd at the Fuzzy Duck coffee shop in Morehead Monday morning. “You know how to get that done. You’ve done it for me for years and years and years.”
Frankfort, KY — As working families continue to unify behind the Beshear/Coleman ticket, Matt Bevin’s nasty public feud with his own lieutenant governor is only getting worse.
Here’s what people in Kentucky are saying in the media about the GOP family feud between Bevin and Lt. Governor Jenean Hampton:
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s re-election campaign is so proud that he’s turned the once-hallowed chamber of the U.S. Senate into a place where legislation goes to die that it retweeted an investigative report on the topic with a special seal of approval from “Team Mitch.”
A few days ago, I went to my study to read in the early morning hours. I have a new book on how to read poetry. How instructive that might have been as poetry tends to be a balm for my soul’s wounds.
EDITOR'S NOTE: We received this statement from the Kentucky Democratic Party: "When Senator Thayer’s bill to disrupt the State Board of Elections failed, and then he covertly attached it to legislation in the Senate, we knew it would harm Kentucky voters. Now, when Secretary Grimes points out the inaccuracies to protect Primary voters, it’s no surprise the Republican party runs to defend its politically motivated legislation.
