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The Republican Party of Kentucky has filed a complaint against Democratic agriculture commissioner candidate Jean Marie Lawson Spann alleging the candidate’s radio program and corporate sponsorship constitutes a non-reported campaign donation. The eight page complaint filed with the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance states that Jean Marie Lawson Spann and her father Sam Lawson have been illegally using Lawson Marketing, Inc. and its resources to help the campaign. ... The complaint filed with the Registry of Election Finance on Thursday morning provides transcripts from the ‘Jean Marie Ag Show,’ a weekly radio show broadcast in Glasgow and Bowling Green, from...

... Ahead of the annual [Ky.] Marshall County Democratic Bean Dinner in Gilbertsville on Friday Pure Politics asked [Jean-Marie] Lawson Spann about the Trans Pacific Partnership and if fears of a tobacco carve out we’re warranted. “Just as they’re talking about that, and they’re talking about the EPA — they put out different scare tactics — we’re focused on positive things that won’t scare our Kentucky farm families,” Lawson Spann said. “There’s a pattern there, when they talk about the EPA to try to scare our Kentucky farm families, and then try to raise money out of that…that’s not the...