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SurveyUSA Poll Released: The Numbers

March 14th, 2010 · No Comments

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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Tags: Chris Thieneman · Congress · Courier-Journal · Democrats · Greg Fischer · Jim King · John Yarmuth · Mayor's Race 2010 · Politics · Polls · Republican Party · WHAS

Big Labor News Today for Mayoral Candidates

March 13th, 2010 · 4 Comments

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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Tags: Democrats · Greg Fischer · Politics

Mayoral Poll Numbers Leaking Out

March 12th, 2010 · 12 Comments

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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Tags: Chris Thieneman · Democrats · Greg Fischer · Jim King · Mayor's Race 2010 · Republican Party

Tandy Campaign Illegally Using Email Addresses

March 11th, 2010 · 9 Comments

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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Tags: Bad Behavior · Democrats · Mayor's Race 2010

David Tandy Unveiled Mayoral Education Plan

March 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: Democrats · Education · JCPS · Mayor's Race 2010

Tuesday Morning Dept Of Cat Farming & Tolling

March 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: Democrats · Greg Fischer · Jim King · LMPD · Mayor's Race 2010 · Ohio River Bridges · Politics · Polls · Scandal · Senate Race · State Government · University of Louisville

David Tandy To Unveil Plans For Education

March 8th, 2010 · 3 Comments

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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Tags: Democrats · Education · Mayor's Race 2010 · Metro Government

First Mayoral Mail Piece Hitting This Weekend

March 5th, 2010 · 8 Comments

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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Tags: Democrats · Jim King · Mayor's Race 2010 · Politics

Another Morning Of Mayoral Announcements

March 4th, 2010 · 8 Comments

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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Tags: Bad Behavior · Charity · Chris Thieneman · Democrats · Downtown · Education · Greg Fischer · Indiana · Mayor's Race 2010 · Reporters · Rumors · University of Louisville

From P1: Are You Proud Of This, Kentucky?

March 2nd, 2010 · Comments Off

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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Tags: Democrats · Oops · Politics · Senate Race

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