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Kentucky: Justin Brasell

Thu, 08/07/2008 - 13:14

Responding to new Lunsford ad, McConnell camp points to Vencor controversy

By Trey Pollard, PolitickerKY.com Reporter

Shortly after Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Bruce Lunsford hit the airwaves with a new ad painting U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Louisville) as an entrenched Washington politician, McConnell's campaign fired back by resurrecting a controversial aspect of Lunsford's business history that has been campaign fodder for the Democrat's opponents in previous campaigns.

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Fri, 07/18/2008 - 17:12

A Friday afternoon counterpunch from McConnell on energy

By Trey Pollard, PolitickerKY.com Reporter

On the most eventful day in the race in weeks, the candidates for Kentucky's U.S. Senate seat continue to jab at each other today in the wake of incumbent Sen. Mitch McConnell's (R-Louisville) release of the first television ad of the general election campaign.

This afternoon, McConnell's campaign dispatched a retaliatory response to Lunsford's earlier critique of the ad.

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Mon, 07/14/2008 - 16:59

Lunsford brings in $600K in 2Q; $1.3M on hand

By Trey Pollard, PolitickerKY.com Reporter

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After a second quarter fundraising period split in half by the May 20 Democratic primary, U.S. Senate candidate and multi-millionaire businessman Bruce Lunsford (D-Louisville) will report $600,000 in contributions and $1.3 million on hand. Lunsford's 2Q receipts will total just short of $3.1 million, with $2.5 million of that amount coming from Lunsford's own pocket.

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Tue, 07/08/2008 - 14:36

McConnell camp claims 2Q fundraising record after Lunsford’s self-financing

By Trey Pollard, PolitickerKY.com Reporter

[img_assist|nid=968|title=U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Louisville)|desc=Getty Images Photo|link=none|align=right|width=240|height=175] While official numbers have not yet been released by the re-election campaign of U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Louisville), a statement sent today to PolitickerKY.com says McConnell has set a fundraising record in the second quarter of 2008.

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Tue, 06/10/2008 - 18:04

In energy debate, McConnell camp sides with Lunsford’s horse and the Democrat hits the pumps

By Trey Pollard, PolitickerKY.com Reporter

Few things are sacred in Kentucky politics. A man's horse is evidently not among them.

In a novel turn of events today in the continuing back-and-forth over energy policy between incumbent U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Louisville) and Democratic Senate nominee Bruce Lunsford, of Louisville, the McConnell camp has cited Lunsford's race horse named "Drilling for Oil" in the latest hit on their opponent.

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Tue, 06/03/2008 - 16:28

Back-and-forth on energy policy for McConnell and Lunsford

By Trey Pollard, PolitickerKY.com Reporter

The U.S. Senate race predicted to be "a war" by the Democrat and "the most negative campaign Kentuckians have ever seen" by the Republican is thus far looking more like a civil tennis match, as the campaigns again participated in another roundabout serve-and-volley exchange early this week.

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Tue, 04/15/2008 - 10:09

$7.7 million on hand for McConnell

By Trey Pollard, PolitickerKY.com Reporter

Senator Mitch McConnell's re-election campaign will report $7,741,241 on hand at the end of the first fundraising quarter of 2008, a release announced today. This election cycle, the McConnell campaign has raised $12,199,516, as of the March 31 1Q deadline. The campaign says this figure is a "Kentucky record."

Included in that figure are 1Q receipts totaling $1,315,967 in contributions to the four-term incumbent.

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Sun, 04/13/2008 - 22:40

McConnell targets Obama, defends Iraq policy

By Trey Pollard, PolitickerKY.com Reporter

Introducing her husband to an assembled crowd of fellow Republicans in Northern Kentucky on Saturday night, Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao said Senator and Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was playing a crucial role in preventing the “Europeanization” of American labor law.

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Wed, 04/02/2008 - 09:51

McConnell Campaign Takes Shape and Awaits Opposition

By Trey Pollard, PolitickerKY.com Reporter

The campaign team seeking to re-elect four-term Republican Senator Mitch McConnell features some familiar names from the Senator's past races as well as Republican operatives with success elsewhere in Kentucky.

Long-time McConnell pollster Jan Van Lohuizen of Houston-based Voter Consumer Research will continue to handle public opinion work for the campaign. Van Lohuizen also served as a primary pollster for President George W. Bush's re-election campaign in 2004 and Mitt Romney's 2008 presidential bid.

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