Told you on Friday about the coming mayoral poll.
Well, here are the final numbers that are apparently only available in the print edition (wtf kind of out-of-touch IS that?) of the Courier-Journal:
Fischer leads among white Democrats; Tandy leads among black Democrats. Tandy runs strong among those who attend church regularly; Fischer leads among those who [...]

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Central Labor didn’t endorse today.
For one Democratic candidate who has been touting the endorsement of this union group, it’s a serious blow.
Greg Fischer loses out again, thanks to Larry Clark.
35 different union reps chose not to endorse.
Maybe somebody shouldn’t have told everybody else that they were going to score the major endorsement.

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We’ve been hearing mayoral poll numbers all day and Phillip Bailey finally got his hands on them. You’ll pee a little. It’s basically all name ID, based on the data that have been leaked so far:
Republicans

Thieneman 34
Heiner 30
Robertson 4
Undecided 32

HAHAHA! Let’s look at that race again in about two weeks.
Democrats

Fischer 20
Tandy 17
King 12 [...]

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Dear David Tandy: What’s up with your campaign compiling hundreds (thousands?) of email addresses and consistently spamming them – without permission, despite dozens of unsubscription requests?
Several people from different groups and organizations have contacted me over the last few weeks to complain. From the Kentucky Democratic Party to members of a local civil [...]

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Yesterday David Tandy unveiled his plans for education, something he’d have very little to do with as mayor. We shared the outline of his plan early in the day.
So what’d he announce that was so grand during those two hours he should have been at a mayoral forum before hundreds of voters?
This:

Making libraries, computers, [...]

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Those aren’t coyotes, they’re just really big cats that have escaped Rep. Joni Jenkins’ cat farm in Shively. [WFPL]
Yesterday former Speaker of the House Jody Richards endorsed Jim King’s mayoral campaign. Initially, I thought it was lame and and a waste of an announcement. And then I realized this sends a message that King [...]

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Tonight from 6:00 to 8:00 (PM), David Tandy will discuss his “plan” for education at the Newburg Community Center, 4810 Exeter Avenue.
Tandy says his plan will “ensure that primary school students learn basic skills, and all high school students graduate prepared to successfully enter the workforce or college” and includes the following:

Making libraries, computers, and [...]

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The first major mail piece of the Democratic mayoral race is hitting about 90,000 (based on info I’m able to pull from the printer and the tight-lipped campaign) primary voters in Louisville this weekend and it comes from Jim King.
Let’s take a look of one of the pieces (It’s a full 8.5″ x 11″ before [...]

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Three University of Louisville Board of Trustees committees will meet today at noon at the Brown & Williamson Club at Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium. The meetings start at noon with the finance committee, personnel and academic and student affairs. [Press Release]
A report says the Iron Quarter buildings on Main Street are still salvageable. It’d [...]

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From the Washington Post on Jim Bunning:
For four days, he has been on a one-man campaign to cut off unemployment benefits, kick the unemployed off of health insurance, cut Medicare payments to doctors, deny satellite TV to rural Americans, shut down federal flood insurance and highway projects, and furlough thousands of federal workers.
-SNIP-
The ornery Kentuckian [...]

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