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The grandson of a late Paducah merchant faces political veteran Russ Maple Nov. 4 for secretary of state. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Former President Bill Clinton and Gov. Paul Patton, both Democrats, had a profound effect on Trey Grayson's political life. Grayson grew up in Kenton County where Democrats controlled local offices. "When I was 18, I registered to vote as a Democrat so that I could vote in the primary," Grayson said. "But I always admired President Reagan and the elder President Bush. And I really knew I was a Republican because I believed in lower taxes, less regulation and less government."...

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Richie Farmer's celebrity as a former University of Kentucky basketball player, and whether he is relying on it to be elected commissioner of agriculture, arose as an issue Monday night in a televised forum with his opponent, Alice Baesler. "This election is not a basketball game," said Baesler, who has a Kentucky basketball connection of her own - husband Scotty was a captain of the Wildcats - but also years of experience running a cattle and tobacco farm in Fayette County. "We need to take it off the basketball court and into the plowed field," Baesler told...