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Three GOP incumbents in Kentucky legislature defeated in primary
Kentucky Public Radio ^ | 5/21/24 | Joe Sonka

Posted on 05/22/2024 2:44:55 AM PDT by cotton1706

Three Republican incumbents in the Kentucky General Assembly were knocked off in the primary election Tuesday, including a Lexington moderate who was backed by nearly $300,000 of ads from political action committees.

Lexington State Rep. Killian Timoney was defeated by a wide margin in his bid for a third term by Thomas Jefferson, who beat the incumbent by 44 percentage points.

Timoney was one of the candidates backed by the Commonwealth Conservatives Coalition, a federal super PAC that bought roughly $1 million of ads to back nine candidates from the establishment wing of the party. The PAC spent more than $250,000 on TV ads touting Timoney’s conservative credentials.

However, Jefferson and several PACs from the “liberty” wing of the GOP — which often take a harder line against government spending and social conservative issues than the leadership of the party — hit Timoney with ads of their own, highlighting his votes against bills to ban transgender girls from girls sports and ban gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth.

In a statement on his victory, Jefferson said the central Kentucky district “has spoken loud and clear that our family values matter.”

“I was elected to push back against the radical left agenda of attacking the rights of parents and targeting children with explicit content,” Jefferson said. “I am proud to say that it is my intent to go to Frankfort not to be a friend to special interests but instead to fight for conservative values.”

In western Kentucky, seven-term incumbent Rep. Richard Heath lost a surprising upset to Kimberly Holloway, a small business owner who ran on a small government platform. She finished with 52%, despite her campaign only spending $15,000 within two weeks of the election and no support from any PACs.

(Excerpt) Read more at wkyufm.org ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: election
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1 posted on 05/22/2024 2:44:55 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

Needs to sweep the nation.


2 posted on 05/22/2024 2:51:01 AM PDT by riverrunner
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To: cotton1706

This article was very hard t read - sounded like a dim-o-crep reporter trying to explain things.

Shorter title - MAGA wipes out 3 RINOS in KY Grand Old Loser Primary


3 posted on 05/22/2024 3:01:28 AM PDT by monkeypants (It's a Republic, if you can keep it.)
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To: cotton1706
It looks good for the Freedom Caucus all over the country now.

The fascist dems are going ape shit and are eating their own.They are closing down the Dem Chicago convention out of fear.

Dems are Just like happened to Biden uncle 2nd Lt. Ambrose J. Finnegan Jr. , eaten by their own tribal cannibals.

Or executed by circular firing squads.

I love it when the toads implode.

4 posted on 05/22/2024 3:01:36 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: cotton1706

THAT’S how you do it, son!


5 posted on 05/22/2024 3:02:25 AM PDT by Segovia
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To: cotton1706

Could getting rid of Rinos be a starting grass roots trend? In Mitch Mcconnells state? Good for us!


6 posted on 05/22/2024 3:04:34 AM PDT by navymom1
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To: cotton1706

Ballots are being spread around to be counted in the dead of night. The Democrat landslide begins.


7 posted on 05/22/2024 3:11:52 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: monkeypants

“This article was very hard t read”

They’re not very bright at NPR.


8 posted on 05/22/2024 3:17:24 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

There is NOTHING conservative about the “Commonwealth Conservatives Coalition”. They are backed by the George Conway wing of TDS groups. They are establishment RINO’s, just like the Log Cabin Republicans and Romney McCainiacs.

It’s good that the base is finally purging the Paul Ryan scum. Much more needs to be done to carve out the Washington DC cancer.


9 posted on 05/22/2024 3:19:48 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: cotton1706

Incumbents are taking a beating all over, it seems.

Portland Oregon leftist incumbent also lost


10 posted on 05/22/2024 3:28:05 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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To: navymom1

We prefer to be known as Rand Paul’s and Thomas Massie’s state, thank you very much.


11 posted on 05/22/2024 4:00:07 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: PIF

The candidates who lost were RINOs, and lost to MAGA in the GOP primary, not RATs. 😄😆


12 posted on 05/22/2024 4:18:31 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Navarro didn't kill himself.)
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To: navymom1

I think it happened in Idaho, too. So not just Kentucky.


13 posted on 05/22/2024 4:27:18 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Navarro didn't kill himself.)
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To: monkeypants

Southworth is a great conservative first-term state senator whom the good ole boys in the KY legislature successfully gerrymandered out.


14 posted on 05/22/2024 5:04:25 AM PDT by lakecumberlandvet (Appeasement never works.)
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To: cotton1706

Thank you for posting these articles, cotton1706. It does my heart good to see some of these Republican squishes get beaten by conservatives.


15 posted on 05/22/2024 5:43:43 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: cotton1706

In my Central Kentucky district our incumbent is a solid conservative who won an upset against a moderate last time around. She’s a solid win in the general election.. but the Republican establishment decided they needed to get rid of her cuz she’s too conservative. They put up an establishment candidate and a crap load of money and dirty ads. I didn’t think she was going to make it, but she pulled it out with 65% of the votes last night. They out spent her three to one.
One downside to this is that the turnouts in the primaries all over the state was barely 13%. What the hell is the matter with people?

Turnout is how we lost the governorship twice. When 30% of the people vote the winner is the one who can simply turn out a few more of his supporters.


16 posted on 05/22/2024 5:49:14 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there")
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Oddly, ny district in NYS had a record low turnout, too.

Are you smelling a rat?

Because I am.

We can no longer trust our election results.

Any aspect of them, results, turnout numbers.

Not without audits.

And we should be auditing every election from now on.

Down to dog catcher.

That I would be more than willing to pay for.


17 posted on 05/22/2024 5:59:03 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: MayflowerMadam

I wondered if some one would spot that error.


18 posted on 05/22/2024 6:24:13 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: monkeypants

The Kentucky State Republican Party has some serious issues. They behave like their Washington big brothers for the most part. The legislature has veto proof majorities but continues to enact or support liberal policies.

Legislation to ban DEI in universities was on the docket in committees and the Chamber of Commerce came out against it and what did the liberal KY Republican legislature do, why we now have fully funded DEI at our universities all the while they wail like mashed cats against it.

Yesterday is the first primary I haven’t voted in for decades, I saw no point. I knew Trump would win the nomination but down ticket I had no true conservatives to vote for just liberal Republican establishment trash. The KY Republican party is allowing Democrats to slither in and run as Republicans.

In our local Commonwealths Attorney race we had a Republican incumbent who is incompetent and hasn’t won a trial since being elected and is bat crap crazy. Her opponent running as a Republican was the counties DEMOCRAT PARTY’s organizer in chief in the 1990’s and early 2000’s. He won that race. So come fall I have a liberal Republican running against a BLM backing Democrat whack job.


19 posted on 05/22/2024 7:26:42 AM PDT by sarge83
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To: MayflowerMadam

Even more heartening news.


20 posted on 05/22/2024 7:58:26 AM PDT by navymom1
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