Beshear endorses Mongiardo in U.S. Senate race

Gov. Steve Beshear sent out a statement this afternoon endorsing his lieutenant governor, Daniel Mongiardo, in next year’s 2010 U.S. Senate race.
The statement comes several weeks after Beshear met with U.S. Rep. Ben Chandler, another Democrat has also said he might be interested in entering the race. Many speculate Attorney General Jack Conway, also a [...]

Williams hasn’t made decision on potential U.S. Senate run

Following reports over the weekend that he is considering a run for the U.S. Senate next year, Kentucky Senate President David Williams told reporters this morning that he had made not decision about running for a different office. 
“We’ll just see what the rest of the year brings,” Williams, a Burkesville Republican, told reporters, according to [...]

“Trading cards” from last Bunning-Mongiardo matchup

The Rothenberg Political Report has a set of “trading cards” on display today from the 2004 U.S. Senate race between incumbent Republican Jim Bunning and Democrat Daniel Mongiardo produced by Mongiardo’s campaign. 
The set of nine “beanball cards” peg Mongiardo as  a “relief pitcher” while calling Bunning, a baseball Hall of Fame pitcher, a “special interest designated hitter” [...]

Need a new U.S. Senate race to fill the void?

With Mitch McConnell’s race freshly concluded, speculation has already begun about who the Democrats will field in the race for Kentucky’s other U.S. Senate seat currently held by Jim Bunning. 
Actually, the speculation began long before Tuesday’s election, even though the Republican Bunning still has two more years on his term. 
Talk at Fancy Farm in August [...]