Included in the package:

• Two single-day front row VIP tickets to the HullabaLOU Music Festival with express entry via a private concierge escort
• A personal meet-and-greet with Kenny Chesney (Saturday, July 24)
• A photograph taken on the exclusive Churchill Downs clubhouse balcony, which overlooks the HullabaLOU Main Stage and iconic Twin Spires
• First-class airfare for two to Louisville (within the United States)
• A two-night stay in the Grand Suite at Galt House Hotel & Suites in downtown Louisville
• Dinner for two at the award-winning upscale restaurant RIVUE
• Limo service from the airport and Galt House to HullabaLOU, courtesy Xtreme Transportation.

Click here to dig deep into your pockets. Starting bid was $2,000.

It’s a nice move for helping the children, as Kathy Griffin would say. But. Uh. Get a load of this photo that came along with the press release:

Fine and dandy, you say? Well, take a closer look at the photograph to see just why I’m wholly grossed out.

See the rest after the jump – WARNING – could cause nightmares…

The Crusade for Children raised $5.3 million. 57 years strong. Doesn’t your community make you proud? [WHAS11]

A new braille sign was unveiled at Waterfront Park on Friday. [WFPL]

Legacy Lofts developer Mark Isaacs is the focus of an extensive Courier-Journal article. What a sad downfall. [C-J]

Guess this means no one will be buying at Cliff View Terrace for a while? [More From The C-J]

Fun times! It’s BP: The Game. [Fat Lip]

Metro Council’s Budget Committee will resume hearings today at 1:00 P.M. and will end at 6:30 P.M. [Media Advisory]

Check out these fancy shots of the new state capitol murals. [Click the Clicky]

Your big city newspaper seems keen on tolling. Check out this story about the virtues of an electronic, cash-free system. Happy now? [C-J]

Just in case you missed it: There’s a new right-wing shadow group headquartered in Louisville that’s being funded by America’s largest anti-labor corporations. [Page One]

Larry Clark is trying to kill Kentucky’s bourbon industry. Folks need to get outraged over this.  [Bluegrass Politics]

Metro Government is consolidating its automobile fleet. I’d write about it, but Jerry Abramson’s spokesgays can’t handle even a bit of warranted criticism and yanked me from their fancy list. [Joe Arnold]

The next city budget predicts a slight revenue increase. Something doesn’t smell right. [WFPL]

Kentucky’s April unemployment rate dropped to 10.6%. [Page One]

That Pussycat girl won some fancy dancing contest on the teevee! [WHAS11]

TARC’s service cuts go into effect on June 6: #35 Indian Trail, #58 Bashford Manor/Oxmoor, #59 River Road, #80 Hurstbourne Parkway. [Press Release]

The Belle of Louisville’s 96th (!!) Season opens Memorial Day Weekend and you should take a fancy cruise. I mean, the boat has fancy air conditioning this year. [Click the Clicky]

Chief Robert White is now a finalist for the Atlana job. [Jessie Halladay]

It is a shame that the libruls have not tagged my giant Republican automobile with a Gas-Hole magnet. [Swiss Miss via Broken Sidewalk]

Just in time for Derby.

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But here he is complaining about how sexist and discriminatory the media is or something:

It’s like he just cold forgot about talking about Darcie’s you-know-what on the radio, for fun.

Fairdale Bigfoot has decided not to run for mayor of Louisville. Sure, the dreams of power and women and unrestricted access to shelter and food were nice, but there are three reasons a sasquatch will not sit in City Hall.

Unbelievable news.

Mr. Bigfoot went on to say this about the crowded field of candidates:

Have you seen the slate of candidates? Fairdale Bigfoot got halfway through and had to take a break. There are so many candidates, Fairdale Bigfoot will still be reading this one on the beach in July. Oh, sure, Fairdale Bigfoot will pretend to have already read it when girls ask, and Fairdale Bigfoot will put a much more obscure and impressive dust jacket over it for coffee shop reading, but the ballot will still be underneath.

And with that he went back to the underbrush of Jefferson Memorial Forest.

Louisville lost yet another great potential leader.

The planetarium at UofL is offering a free public tour of the universe today at 7:00 P.M. (that’s when the doors open, anyway) and it’s hosted by Terry Meiners. It’s called – wait for it – Terry Meiners’ Star Tour. It’s apparently a special edition of the ongoing Skies Over Louisville program that’s been pretty popular with the general public.

Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. You can even stay for the 8:00 P.M. Oasis in Space program for free. So somebody go and tell us how it is.

Okay, so maybe this bit of news is a little bit scary. The thought of Terry Meiners talking about the stars at the planetarium makes me afraid.

FROM THE RELEASE

Wade is from Season 20 “Heroes vs. Villains” and will be at a dinner at Westport Village on Thursday, January 21 at 6:00 P.M. The evening will benefit the University of Louisville’s Women’s Golf Program, according to a press release.

The por shindig kicks off at a wine tasting at Westport Whiskey & Wine and is followed with appetizers at Napa River Grill at 7:00 P.M. The party then moves to an “exclusive dinner” at Wild Eggs at 7:45 P.M. with desert to follow at The Comfy Cow. Coach K will apparently be on-hand. You’ll have to pony up $75.

Wade will apparently return on Friday, January 22 at 6:00 P.M. for more desert at The Comfy Cow.

CLICK HERE (Warning: PDF Link) for the full court file (73 pages) from the Henry case proving him wrong.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Here’s the June 30, 2006 letter from the FEC I just mentioned on the radio. Click here (Warning: PDF Link) for that.

Original story below:

Why, it’s the sound of Heather French Henry never getting to run for mayor (sorry to kill the rumor, folks) because she and her husband illegally used her fake veterans foundation:

In court documents, prosecutors alleged that in 2006 and 2007, Henry improperly used money from a nascent U.S. Senate campaign, which, being a federal race, should not have been spent on the costs of seeking state office. He also improperly used funds from two nonprofit charities affiliated with him and his wife, former Miss America Heather Renee French Henry, prosecutors said.

The two charities — the Kentucky Prostate Cancer Coalition and the Heather Renee French Foundation for Veterans — paid several hundred dollars for a gubernatorial campaign aide and stamps for the campaign and covered the costs of Henry’s personal cell phone used during the campaign.

Ouch.

Don’t miss Ralph Dunlop’s story.

Or my own final thoughts and reaction to the end of a three-year battle I’ve fought.