Grand jury won’t indict Bruce Lunsford, campaign aide

The Associated Press is reporting that a grand jury has reviewed claims that Democrat Bruce Lunsford and a campaign took and erased a recorder following a debate in western Kentucky last month, and won’t be issuing indictments. 
Lunsford, who lost Kentucky’s U.S. Senate race Tuesday to incumbent Republican Mitch McConnell, had been accused of taking the [...]

McConnell, Lunsford make sweeps through state today

Candidates for U.S. Senate Mitch McConnell and Bruce Lunsford are making final sweeps through Kentucky today to make a last pitch to voters. 
The Herald-Leader’s Ryan Alessi caught up with McConnell, the incumbent Republican from Louisville, in Lexington this morning and said McConnell was reluctant to analyze how the race has shaped up in the last [...]

Another round of hounds in Kentucky’s U.S. Senate race

Republican Mitch McConnell’s campaign has offered its own new take on the famed 1984 ad that featured bloodhounds on the trail of then-incumbent U.S. Sen. Walter “Dee” Huddleston. 
That 24-year-old ad had the hounds searching for Huddleston who was accused of running from his record by McConnell, who beat Huddleston that year to win his first term [...]

Lunsford camp offers Halloween costume suggestion

Supporters of Bruce Lunsford received a Halloween costume suggestion from the Louisville Democrat’s campaign today – a  mask of Republican Mitch McConnell. 
The e-mail sent this morning by Lunsford Campaign Manager Brad Katz said the campaign “can’t think of anything scarier than another six years of Mitch McConnell.”
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Another six years of obstructionism, putting [...]

Hillary Clinton coming to Kentucky, Owensboro stop unlikely

Former presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton will be in Kentucky Sunday campaigning for Democrat Bruce Lunsford, but a visit to Owensboro before Election Day seems unlikely. 
Clinton will make stops in Hazard in far eastern Kentucky and in Louisville during the day as she talks up Lunsford, who is facing incumbent Republican Mitch McConnell in [...]

New twist on “Switch to Mitch” pitch

Democrat Bruce Lunsford has brought the famed hounds from the 1984 U.S. Senate race in Kentucky back and sicked them on his Republican opponent Mitch McConnell. 
In a new ad released Wednesday, the Lunsford campaign mimics the ads McConnell ran in his successful campaign against Democratic incumbent Water “Dee” Huddleston 24 years ago. 
The ads from that [...]

More developments in “Recordergate”

The Associated Press is reporting that whether Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate Bruce Lunsford and a campaign aide will face criminal charges in an incident involving a recorder last week will be up to a Marshall County grand jury. 
Assistant Marshall County Attorney Jason Darnall said Monday it’s probably a “toss-up” whether the grand [...]

Senate race coming to Owensboro

The two candidates for U.S. Senate in Kentucky will be coming to Owensboro in the next several days, but will miss each other by less than 48 hours as they begin their final full week of campaigning. 
Democrat Bruce Lunsford will be at the Owensboro Museum of Science and History in downtown Owensboro Saturday at 4 [...]

Dispute over recorder at McConnell-Lunsford debate leads to criminal complaint

A dispute over a recorder used at this morning’s debate between Republican Mitch McConnell and Democrat Bruce Lunsford at Kentucky Dam Village has led to allegations of criminal conduct. 
The ruckus started after the debate when Lunsford allegedly took a recorder that had been placed at his podium during the debate and someone with his campaign [...]

SurveyUSA poll shows McCain with lead, McConnell and Lunsford tied

The most recent SurveyUSA poll conducted for WHAS-TV in Louisville and WLEX-TV in Lexington shows Kentucky’s senior senator Mitch McConnell dead even with Democratic challenger Bruce Lunsford as the race heads into the final two weeks. 
The poll released today tackled both the presidential and senatorial contests in Kentucky, and found Republican John McCain with a 13-point [...]