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Kentucky: Chuck Schumer

May 11, 2009 - 10:29 am
NEWS FEED: Barefoot and Progressive

Recommended Monday Reading

By noreply@blogger.com (rbecker)

If you're bored at work today, or like tens of millions of your fellow Americans, you don't even have a job, here are some reading recs for you!

  • Time Magazine ruminates on the evaporation of the Republican Party.
  • Gasp! Has Paul Krugman found something about teh prez that he likes? Perhaps health care reform?
  • You know those annoying robodials telling you your car warranty is about to expire? Chuck Schumer says "f**k em."
  • Oh and in other news, "Obama is Spock: It's Quite Logical." Wow....
  • And of course, any news day filled with "death" and "evaporation" wouldn't be complete with an article about how young people now hate god. Officially.

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    Wed, 10/29/2008 - 18:03

    Senate Dems target McConnell, but without their leader

    By Alex Isenstadt, Politicker.com Reporter

    WASHINGTON - Four years after the GOP successfully sunk the Democratic leader in the U.S. Senate, Democrats are giving Republicans the reverse treatment by going after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

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    Thu, 08/28/2008 - 13:22

    Lunsford race is the talk of Denver

    By Trey Pollard, PolitickerKY.com Reporter

    DENVER – Attorney General Jack Conway (D-Louisville) is attending his first Democratic National Convention as a delegate this year, though he was previously at the three previous conventions in different capacities.

    “I think this one is the best,” Conway told PolitickerKY.com. “There is an energy here that was missing at some previous conventions.”

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    Wed, 08/06/2008 - 14:51

    More shuffling in Lunsford camp

    By Trey Pollard, PolitickerKY.com Reporter

    Shortly after spokeswoman Allison Haley voluntarily left the campaign of Democratic Senate nominee Bruce Lunsford, more changes are occurring for the Louisville businessman's effort to unseat incumbent U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Louisville).

    Joe Gerth of the Louisville Courier-Journal reports Lunsford has brought Michael Donilon, of Blizzard Communication, on board as its new media consultant.

    There have been 30 comments posted in response to this story.
    Wed, 07/23/2008 - 15:07

    Schumer: Kentucky race 'even or close' for Dems

    By Alex Isenstadt, Politicker.com Reporter

    WASHINGTON – Despite recent polls showing U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Louisville) with a solid lead over Democratic challenger Bruce Lunsford, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee chair Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said today that Lunsford was in a strong position heading towards the fall.

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    Tue, 05/20/2008 - 20:10

    DSCC: Lunsford 'is an outstanding candidate'

    By Jamie Klatell, Politicker.com Editor

    Shortly after his victory over Greg Fischer in the U.S. Senate race's Democratic primary, Bruce Lunsford got a few words of encouragement from Sen. Charles Schumer, the chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

    Schumer's statement looks toward the general election campaign against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell:

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    Thu, 03/13/2008 - 15:27

    With Lunsford Missing, Senate debate focuses on McConnell

    By Trey Pollard, PolitickerKY.com Reporter

    Wednesday night’s Democratic debate in Louisville between two of the candidates vying for the chance to challenge four-term U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Louisville) was a mostly cordial affair marked by the absence of apparent frontrunner Bruce Lunsford.

    Debate organizers invited all three Louisville-based candidates to the event but Lunsford – a Louisville businessman and two-time gubernatorial candidate – never confirmed due to an unspecified scheduling conflict.

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    Mon, 03/03/2008 - 12:25

    Fischer camp slams Lunsford, Schumer

    By Alex Isenstadt, Politicker.com Reporter

    The senatorial campaign of Democrat Greg Fischer is confirming remarks Fischer made Saturday at the Kentucky Democratic State Central Executive Committee in Frankfort.

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    There have been 39 comments posted in response to this story.