Boy, this Senate primary would be really interesting if it were a close race.
The latest is this silly attack ad from the Fischer camp that calls Bruce Lunsford the “mudman” and includes some vintage black-and-white boxing footage. Watch it over at Page One.
Fischer still hasn’t cut into Lunsford’s 20-point lead, no matter what his campaign […]

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That’s right. Someone made the mistake of letting us commies on the teevee! This week Rick discusses the crazy U.S. Senate race and the weird fight going down in 18th Metro Council District.
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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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I’m sure it’s prudent political strategy, but seeing Bruce Lunsford produce a new TV spot that’s all about Greg Fischer is disappointing. He and his people certainly know more than us, but the new ad is unnecessary. He’s up 20 points with a week to go, and his spots ought to continue to point out […]

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A new Survey USA poll released yesterday shows that Greg Fischer has NOT cut into Bruce Lunsford’s lead in the U.S. Senate race. The results suggest that the political neophyte Fischer is learning that backlash from negative campaigning offset any gains he might make. Or that his mistake-prone campaign staff all need to be fired.
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It’s that time again. Watch us on the teevee and send us all of your hooker & coke money! (People always complain when I say that…)
We discussed everything under the sun this week. From charity to the Democratic outrage at the Fischer campaign. It’s all here.
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Whoa, Boy. In Dan Klepal’s C-J story this morning on the city budget, Jerry Abramson says the city would be a “hurtin’ cowboy” if not for a few breaks it got in the budget. Still, he’s singing the budget blues again, cutting another $3 million from the city budget for this fiscal year, just weeks […]

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Here’s what I hear people who support Greg Fischer say most frequently about him: he’s a nice guy, and he’s smart.
So I’m wondering how he justifies the mean-spirited attacks he’s produced on Bruce Lunsford, especially in the face of growing resistance from everyone who’s anyone in the Democratic Party. Today the Lunsford campaign released a […]

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This is a good one. Close examination of Greg Fischer’s personal financial disclosure form reveals that Fischer is an investor in the same Bruce Lunsford companies on which he has based his entire campaign. Fischer has claimed in ads that Lunsford’s actions as the head of Vencor were unethical and disqualify him from public service, […]

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Like the feeling you get coming back from Christmas break, post-Derby blahs are going around today. Let’s get back to business with a few political items.
C-J and Barack: Over the weekend, the Courier-Journal endorsed Barack Obama for President. Obama did his C-J interview with the editorial board, while we remember Mrs. Clinton actually went to […]

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There seems to be no end to the mistakes being made, by the minute, by the Greg Fischer campaign for U.S. Senate. Today, Fischer’s taking some heat for his recent attack ads on Bruce Lunsford from some prominent elected officials — Congressman John Yarmuth, Attorney General Jack Conway, Lt. Governor Dan Mongiardo and State Auditor […]

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A new Survey USA poll released today shows that the U.S. Senate Democratic primary race is getting closer since the last poll, with Greg Fischer picking up 9 percent in the last two weeks while Bruce Lunsford has dropped 4. But the gap is still 43-18, so you can’t really call it close.
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Or how to campaign for Mitch McConnell.
Greg Fischer’s campaign for U.S. Senate has launchd its first real attack ad of the campaign. The ad features an unidentified elderly woman talking about Bruce Lunsford’s business ethics, says he evicted old people from nursing homes while newspaper and internet headlines roll across the screen. It […]

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Four weeks from today, we’ll be going to the polls to pick someone to try and knock off Mitch McConnell.
I think Democratic voters will choose Bruce Lunsford, given his gigantic edge in polls and his financial advantage, not to mention the ineptness of the Greg Fischer campaign. I’m not going out on a limb, here, […]

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Every Friday, as we’ve reminded you over and over again, I (Rick) do a little TV segment at the CW. These segments are proving to be valuable not only for the marketing of our media company and the stroking of my ego, but because I almost always discover a news item or two worth […]

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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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A few weeks back, I was talking with WAVE-TV general manager Steve Langford, who was bemoaning the lack of political money rolling into the station.
A year ago, of course, a highly competitive governors’ race, with Democratic and Republican primaries, made for a nice payday for local stations. Bruce Lunsford and Ernie Fletcher were spending big […]

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Louisville-Jefferson County Democratic Party’s annual Wendell Ford Dinner was a hoot this past Friday. We took advantage of the semi-palatable Tanqueray and mingled all night like a good little blogger is supposed to do. Also snapped a few photos (horrible lighting at the Executive West– they don’t have gays there, so sorry […]

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About a year ago, I traveled to Frankfort to attend the press conference announcing the Bruce Lunsford-Greg Stumbo campaign for Kentucky governor. Later, I’d get involved in the campaign, helping create and edit the campaign’s website, which is still online.
Don’t be surprised if that sort of event (a Lunsford press conference) happens again, as Lunsford […]

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BrownBacked: Our friends at LEO turned up the identity of the folks behind the Greg Fischer campaign, and they have one thing in common — their last name is Brown. An e-mail from Christy and Owsley (once rumored to be entering the Senate race against Mitch McConnell himself) proclaims that Fischer is an “. . […]

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