Racing compact passes Senate panel
By Beth Musgrave -- bmusgrave@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT — Kentucky would be the first state to join an interstate racing compact if the bill allowing it passes the legislature this year. The Senate...
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House panel approves bill to ban pension ‘placement agents’
FRANKFORT – A House committee unanimously approved a bill Thursday that bans state governments’ pension funds from paying middlemen known as “placement agents.” But the sponsor of House Bill 480, House...
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Rand Paul dishes about McConnell, 2010 campaign in new book
By Jack Brammer - jbrammer@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT — In his new book, “The Tea Party Goes to Washington,” U.S. Sen. Rand Paul recounts his tense meeting last year with U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell in...
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Senate panel approves ban on ‘bath salts’ drugs
UPDATED AT 4:46 P.M. By John Cheves -- jcheves@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT -- A Senate committee on Thursday approved a bill banning synthetic drugs commonly sold as "bath salts" while more horror...
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House leaders propose a compromise on state budget fix
By Beth Musgrave bmusgrave@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT -- State House leaders have proposed using a host of one-time money and cost-saving measures to plug a hole in the state Medicaid budget. House...
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UPDATED: Senate likely to vote Thursday on Medicaid budget fix
By Beth Musgrave bmusgrave@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT -- Members of the Senate budget committee grilled Cabinet for Health and Family Services Secretary Janie Miller Wednesday on how the state would...
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Senate convenes, Stein calls it “political theater”
By Beth Musgrave bmusgrave@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT -- The state Senate convened Wednesday and appears posed to pass a series of resolutions to override some of Gov. Steve Beshear's vetos of a...
View ArticleFormer legislator suspended from practicing law for three years
By Beth Musgrave bmusgrave@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT -- A former state legislator and prosecutor has been suspended from practicing law for three years, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday. Leo...
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Ethics panel holds closed-door hearing regarding Rep. Keith Hall
By John Cheves - jcheves@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT — The Legislative Ethics Commission held a closed-door hearing Tuesday to review a complaint about state Rep. Keith Hall, D-Phelps, and more than...
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At Tea Party rally, Mitch McConnell viewed with ‘mixed feelings’
By Jack Brammer jbrammer@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT — Kentucky’s two Republican U.S. senators — one a Tea Party darling and the other whose ties to the conservative movement are tenuous at best —...
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Conservatives warn Mitch McConnell they’re watching him closely
By David Lightman McClatchy Washington Bureau Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell got his first big challenge from the right Wednesday, as the conservative group ForAmerica launched an ad...
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Several Kentucky Tea Party groups plotting to defeat McConnell in 2014
By Jack Brammer jbrammer@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT — Many of Kentucky’s Tea Party leaders are plotting a strategy to defeat U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell in the 2014 Republican primary, a spokesman for...
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Mitch McConnell: Liberals trying to infiltrate conservative groups in Kentucky
By Jack Brammer — jbrammer@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT — U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell's re-election campaign is contending that Democratic liberals are trying to infiltrate conservative groups in the...
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McConnell reports raising $715,000 in last quarter of 2012 for re-election...
HERALD-LEADER FRANKFORT BUREAU U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell raised $715,000 in the last three months of 2012 for his re-election campaign, bringing his campaign total to $7.4 million, according to...
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Ashley Judd thanks American Crossroads for the publicity
By Jack Brammer jbrammer@herald-leader.com The conservative Super PAC American Crossroads released an advertisement Wednesday on YouTube that mocks the political stances of actress Ashley Judd, who is...
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Mitch McConnell lampoons Democratic efforts to find a challenger for him
By Jack Brammer jbrammer@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT – U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell’s re-election campaign released its first video ad Tuesday, a parody highlighting the difficulty Democrats are having...
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Beshear: Ashley Judd wants to talk about U.S. Senate race
By Linda B. Blackford lblackford@herald-leader.com FRANKKFORT -- Gov. Steve Beshear said Thursday that he has spoken with actress Ashley Judd and plans to talk more with her about next year's U.S....
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Beshear says Ashley Judd would be a ‘formidable candidate’
By Beth Musgrave bmusgrave@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT — Gov. Steve Beshear said Tuesday he has spoken with actress Ashley Judd about her potentially challenging U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch...
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Mother Jones releases secret tape of McConnell’s campaign discussing Ashley Judd
By Jack Brammer jbrammer@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT — U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell asked the FBI Tuesday to investigate a secret recording of a private meeting in which he and his campaign aides...
View ArticleMcConnell campaign ad claims he is Obama’s ‘No. 1 target’
By Jack Brammer jbrammer@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT — U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell depicts himself as a victim of “dirty” attacks by liberals and President Barack Obama’s “No. 1 target” in a TV ad that...
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