Posted on 10/20/2015 5:18:40 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
The return of the Republican Governors Association to Kentucky television airwaves brings an unpopular national figure back to the state’s political consciousness: President Barack Obama.
The RGA and Republican Attorneys General Association have dumped millions in the state to link Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jack Conway and attorney general candidate Andy Beshear to the president, hoping Obama’s poor approval numbers in Kentucky rub off on his fellow Democrats in their respective campaigns for constitutional office.
Speaking to Pure Politics after addressing an animated crowd at the AFL-CIO’s 31st biennial convention at Louisville’s Crowne Plaza Hotel on Tuesday, Conway dismissed the $1.6 million in attacks that will continue to be lobbed by the RGA until Election Day, first reported by The Lexington-Herald Leader on Monday.
“I’ve had people come in and try to distort my record in the past and that’s fine,” Conway said. “We’ll withstand it. The people of Kentucky can see through this.”
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“I’ve been saying for a year and a half now that, look, I’m a Kentucky-first Democrat,” Conway said. “I put people over politics, and I think that label’s already been shed.”
Try as he might to keep the president at arm’s length, the RGA and Republican gubernatorial nominee Matt Bevin will continue to press the connection.
Bevin’s campaign, in reaction to an announcement Tuesday by CSX that its mechanical shops in Corbin that service locomotives and rail cars for coal trains will close, blamed Obama’s EPA initiatives for further eroding Kentucky’s coal industry, calling Conway “a rubber stamp for Obama’s job-killing policies.”
“The agenda of Jack Conway and Barack Obama are destroying our state,” Bevin campaign spokeswoman Jessica Ditto said in a statement. “It is time to stand up and fight for our jobs. We cannot afford another four years of Barack Obama’s devastating agenda on
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Good for the RGA!
Why does the RGA seem more voter-friendly than the NRSC, which seems merely to carry water for the National Chamber of Commerce and behaved so despicably in the recent Senate race in Mississippi?
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