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A state House committee advanced a bill to fully strip the Kentucky governor’s power to fill a U.S. Senate vacancy, just a day after McConnell announced he will step down from his Senate leadership position. A Kentucky House committee advanced a bill Thursday to fully strip the Democratic governor’s power to fill a vacancy in the state’s U.S. Senate seat — one day after Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell announced he will step down from his leadership role this year. The Republican-dominated state legislature had already passed a law in 2021 to shift such power away from the governor. Previously,...

Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul has generated controversy over remarks regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The drama culminated during an appearance on Rachel Maddow's show on MSNBC where Paul stated, had he been in office at the time, he would have worked to change Title II of the bill, the part which entitles all persons to "full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation... without discrimination on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin." Paul expressed his belief that Title II is an encroachment upon...

Rand Paul is under fire for what Rachael Maddow calls bigoted and discriminatory comments during his interview with the queen of liberalism.

Candidates from across the country are running against Washington these days but none so aggressively -- or effectively -- as ophthalmologist Rand Paul.Paul's latest anti-Washington volley comes in the form of an ad portraying the nation's capitol as a multi-armed monster seeking to consume private industry. (The cartoon image resembles nothing more than Doctor Octopus -- "Doc Ock" -- from the "Spiderman" series. And, yes, we are aware of how dorky making that comparison is.)"Big government is extending its grasp, scooping up Wall Street banks and business....our health care," says the ad's narrator.Anger directed at the federal government at the...

"We need Conservative Sarah Palin to get involved in the U.S. Senate Race in Kentucky. Conservative American Bill Johnson is seeking the GOP nomination and needs a boost. He needs the kind of boost former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin can bring....Conservative American Bill Johnson is the REAL Kentucky conservative in this race. Lately, we’ve seen many Rino’s and plain ordinary republicans suddenly claiming to be conservative... "Some are questioning if Trey Grayson is a “real” conservative. He’s been said to be “dancing” to the right. PageOne Kentucky says Grayson is pretending to be conservative... "Conservative Alan Keyes says candidate Rand...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is “facing the most difficult reelection campaign” of his career, or at least that’s what he’s telling his political supporters. McConnell, who has yet to draw a major opponent, sent a fundraising letter characterizing his 2008 reelection bid as a battle against “radical national liberal organizations” and calling himself one of the top Democratic targets in the country. The letter was posted this week to a blog dedicated to drafting another Republican, former gubernatorial nominee Larry Forgy, to run against him in a primary. McConnell decried the efforts against him by Americans United for...