A Fine Export: Used to be the Courier-Journal was a fertile training ground for journalists who went on to become national newsmen. There’s no better example than Howard Fineman, who had the political and environmental beat here in the late 1970s, when the paper truly covered the entire state. Now, he’s best known as Newseek’s […]

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The C-J Loves Bruce: Who would have thought the state’s major newspaper would embrace Bruce Lunsford? Editorial writers at the paper seem to have gotten over all their past problems with Lunsford the politician in a convincing endorsement delivered Sunday. It’s time for those Dems still holding a grudge against Bruce to get on the […]

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Chris Thieneman, the often controversial political figure and current primary challenger of Anne Northup for the 3rd District Congressional nod, is up on television with his first commercial. The winner will face current Rep. John Yarmuth in the fall.
Rick will have more on the story a bit later.

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There was no more entertaining TV on last night than what KET offered — a live debate with four Republican candidates for U.S. Congress. You can check out highlights from Jake at Page One, who was blogging about it LIVE. The C-J’s Deborah Yetter described the debate as “polite” but her words were restrained […]

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UPDATE 7:15 p.m.: Northup campaign manager Scott Will confirmed that Northup will attend the KET Debate on Monday.   Also, the poll noted below on PolitickerKy.com doesn’t ask about a head-to-head matchup between Northup and Thieneman. The poll asks whether Thieneman “has any shot at getting the GOP nomination in the 3rd District.” As of now, […]

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We Win the Drinking Game: Louisville Metro Government gets to figure out how to spend the prize package won by the city for being selected as the twin city of the Bushmills area of Ireland. Half the $40K goes to throwing a party for Irish Fest, and the city will decide how to allocate the […]

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Chris Thieneman, who’s on the ballot as a Republican candidate for the 3rd District seat in Congress, says he’s still not sure whether he’ll mount a formal challenge to former Congresswoman Anne Northup.
In an interview this afternoon, Thieneman said he’d received calls recently from Northup aide Ted Jackson, asking him to endorse Northup in […]

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Greg Fischer and Bruce Lunsford, or at least their campaigns, and engaging in some childish little skirmishes that have the political blogsphere going all goofy. While Fischer’s campaign continues to wallow in amazingly low name recognition for someone running in a statewide race (anyone want to guess how many people in Hazard could pick him […]

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Be aware, Hillary. Over at Page One, Jake’s uncovered another eye-opener, this time involving Steve Henry and the Hillary Clinton campaign. From the looks of things on Bardstown Road, Henry is doing some sort of work to help the Hillary campaign. His old campaign office, right there next to Palermo, is filled with Hillary campaign […]

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Nothing like a good old public fight between politicians. This morning local Republican Party chair Jack Richardson IV, under fire for his handling of insider party politics and a botched appearance on the Francene radio show (Remember, Jack, don’t insult the host), wrote a lengthy letter to the C-J criticizing Chris Thieneman and Francene herself.
Jack’s […]

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The abrupt withdrawal of Chris Thieneman (you remember him– he’s the guy McConnell and Northup allegedly forced out of the race) from Kentucky’s 3rd District Republican congressional primary sent shockwaves through Jefferson County’s GOP and across the Republican Party of Kentucky. Unfortunately for the powers that be, the uproar is far from over.
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Saying he was now ready to “fight a different fight,” Chris Thieneman said today that he felt that we was under “heavy pressure” to back out of his run for the Republican nomination for the 3rd Congressional District.
Thieneman told me that “someone in Mitch McConnell’s inner circle” told him that the Senator had made it […]

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It’s true, folks. Chris Thieneman just announced via the Francene show on 84WHAS radio that he is dropping out of the Congressional race and endorsing John Yarmuth.
Stay tuned to this developing story.
UPDATE @ 11:30:
Joe Gerth has more on the story.
Developer Chris Thieneman said this morning that he is dropping out of the 3rd District Republican […]

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UPDATE 11:20 A.M. — Thieneman called back to respond to the show’s comments — and confirm that he was threatened by Northup through Seum. “I called it a threat because that’s what it was, a threat.” He called the party leaders, in particular Jack Richardson, “unethical.” Republicans who deny their threats are “lying.”
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This morning at 7:15, Chris Thieneman appeared on WHAS Radio and made it clear that his run for the 3rd Congressional Seat is not an idea championed by the state’s Republican Party and its godfather, Mitch McConnell.
Thieneman, on Tony Cruise’s morning show, told of the many phone calls he’s received from various party officials, including […]

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The way Chris Thieneman sees it, the 144,000 votes against the library tax last fall were, in reality, votes of support for him. So he’s decided that a run for the District 14 Metro Council seat isn’t a big enough deal, and he’s put both feet in for the 3rd District U.S. Congressional race, no […]

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Sound Familiar?: The Mayor will give his State of the City address today, and it’s expected to focus on money, or lack of it. There’s the projected $9 million shortfall this fiscal year, mainly from the tax on business profits. Department heads will be asked to cut their budgets by up to 5 percent, and […]

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That didn’t take long.
Hours after Erwin Roberts announced his candidacy for the 3rd District Congressional Seat is in jeopardy because of his obligation to military service, Anne Northup seems poised to jump in the race for the seat she lost in 2006.
The C-J’s Joe Gerth reports that Roberts, who had the support of Northup, learned […]

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You can only imagine how much pleasure former U.S. Rep. Anne Northup must have taken as she wrote a fiery letter to the Courier-Journal this week. She said the proverbial straw that unhinged her was a mention by David Hawpe in a Sunday column professing his fairness to Republican candidates. She must have been considering […]

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