Kentucky: London

So, a little update on Jake's earlier post about Mongiardo today.

As he said, Mongiardo issued a press release to everyone in Kentucky announcing that he would speak about healthcare reform in London and Lexington today. However, they kicked out a Conway staffer at the London event, saying that it was a private event, even though they issued press releases and used state resources to put this out.

Well, I decided to attend the Lexington event, as I recieved the press release too and am a member of the dirty librul blogger press.

As soon as I stuck my head in the door, a Mongiardo campaign staffer saw me and whispered to a woman named Angela Underwood.

Lee Fang at Think Progress makes a great find today on Mitch's little adventure into Kentucky yesterday to the chemical weapon depot in Richmond. Mitch was of course crowing about all of the federal dough he helped direct to it's cleanup project in the 2010 budget, which he said will create 600 jobs for Kentuckians. No surprise there, as he ran his entire re-election campaign last year on his love of pork.

But the federal spending that Mitch doesn't like is in Obama's stimulus bill, which he has repeatedly said is a "failure" and should be "diverted".

Oh, one little problem with that, Mitch:
However, McConnell conveniently forgot to mention that even more additional funds for facility construction were awarded through the stimulus.