Boarman taps Grayson for fundraiser

Republican Ben Boarman, who is challenging state Rep. Jim Glenn this year in the 13th District, said Friday Secretary of State Trey Grayson will be headlining a fundraiser for him next month.
Boarman, an Owensboro businessman in his first political race, said Grayson will be in town Oct. 7 for the event at the home of [...]

McConnell on McCain’s VP pick

U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell on Friday said Republican presidential candidate John McCain found a reformer without Washington ties in his newly selected running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
During a stop at the Messenger-Inquirer Friday shortly after McCain announced his selection, McConnell said that Democratic nominee Barack Obama’s choice of Sen. Joe Biden instead of his [...]

The cost of Kentucky’s economic development efforts in Japan

Reporter Paul Glasser with the State Journal in Frankfort follows up his earlier article about the cost of a trip by Gov. Steve Beshear to Japan this year with a look at what it costs to operate Kentucky’s trade office there.
Among the expenses are the $202,000 annual salary of Jiro Hashimoto, the director of the [...]

Comment on Kentucky tonight

KET has announced the line-up for tonight’s edition of Comment on Kentucky, its public affairs program that brings together Kentucky journalists to talk about the issues of the week.
Host Ferrell Wellman will be joined by reporters John Cheves of the Herald-Leader and Stephanie Steizer of the Courier-Journal along with Al Cross, director of the Institute [...]

15,000 misfits, egos and terrible suits gathered in Denver

Justin Peters with the Columbia Journalism Review takes a look at the 15,000 journalists who have converged on the Colorado’s capital city this week for the Democratic National Convention.
One of my favorite parts is Peters describing the credentialing process and the group relegated to “Denver’s answer to the Island of Misfit Toys—
“bloggers, activists, eighteen-year-olds, men [...]

Maybe western Kentuckians are just nicer…

Mark Hebert with WHAS-TV in Louisville is reporting that Gov. Steve Beshear’s approval rating throughout Kentuckian remained the same in the latest poll conducted for the station by SurveyUSA.
The poll results, which can be seen here, find that among the 600 people surveyed, 44 percent approve of the job Beshear is doing as governor.
When broken [...]

Poll: Bush’s approval ratings higher in WKY

Mark Hebert with WHAS-TV in Louisville is reporting that a recent SurveyUSA poll sponsored by his station shows that President George Bush’s popularity ratings in Kentucky remain low, with only 37 percent of those 600 people polled approving of the job he is doing as president.
As Hebert points out, those numbers a much higher west [...]

Rubbing elbows with top Dems in Denver

Owensboro businesswoman and Democratic diehard Moretta Bosley bumped into quite the big-name crowd this week while in Denver attending her seventh Democratic National Convention.
In a phone interview this morning, Bosley said she was riding an elevator on her way to an interview with Fox News when she was joined on the elevator car by former [...]

Lunsford tries to build national support in Denver

Trey Pollard with PolitickerKY.com has a piece about Democrat Bruce Lunsford’s efforts to boost national support for his bid for the U.S. Senate during the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
Lunsford tells Pollard that his campaign against U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell should become a “national race” and enable him to draw on a national fundraising base [...]

Listen to Boswell and Guthrie at Farm Bureau forum

Democrat David Boswell and Republican Brett Guthrie both appeared well-versed in Kentucky Farm Bureau policy at Monday night’s forum in Elizabethtown.
Although the answers both offered during the night ran along the same lines, the two state senators who are facing each other in this year’s 2nd District congressional contest did distinguish themselves a bit in [...]