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By my lights, this stuff is funny and should earn the guy some votes. But there are those who, I am sure, will think less of Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo (D-Ky.) for it. Danny has apparently had enough of the campaign. He starts out ripping the current governor, Steve Beshear, a fellow Democrat, and then really tells us how he feels.

Mongiardo to wed girlfriend of three years By Jack Brammer HERALD-LEADER FRANKFORT BUREAU FRANKFORT - Wedding bells are in the offing for state Sen. Daniel Mongiardo, who is running for lieutenant governor this year with Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Steve Beshear. Mongiardo's engagement to Allison Patrick, 21, of Frankfort was announced by Senate Minority Leader Ed Worley, D-Richmond, during a party caucus yesterday. Mongiardo said no date has been set. It will be the first marriage for both. Mongiardo, 46, a Hazard surgeon, has been in the Senate since 2002. He narrowly lost a bid for the U.S. Senate in 2004...

FRANKFORT - Daniel Mongiardo just can't win. As a lifelong bachelor at the age of 44 during last year's U.S. Senate race, Mongiardo was the target of Republican insinuations that he might be gay. Now that he's dating a 19-year-old woman, he's drawing static for robbing the cradle.

Kentucky Democratic Party Chairman Bill Garmer said in an interview last week that voters "are entitled to know the ability of candidates to fulfill their obligation to serve a full six-year term." Click Here to read the article

Fort Wright, KY - Citizens for Bunning today announced a new independent and non-partisan poll showing U.S. Senator Jim Bunning’s lead in the U.S. Senate race strengthening. The SurveyUSA poll of 679 likely Kentucky voters (+/-3.8%) conducted Aug. 13 – Aug. 15 has Senator Bunning leading his opponent 57% to 33% with 11% undecided. This same non-partisan poll done three weeks ago had Senator Bunning beating his opponent by 18 points, and now its most recent poll shows his commanding lead growing to 24 points. Senator Bunning leads among conservatives, moderates, and independents, yet liberals and John Kerry supporters overwhelmingly...

Kentucky voters like Republican Jim Bunning and the job he is doing as a first-term U.S. senator, but he has yet to cinch re-election, according to The Courier-Journal's latest Bluegrass Poll. Forty-one percent of likely voters in the Nov. 4 election said they would vote to re-elect Bunning, and only 13 percent said they would vote to replace him. Nineteen percent said they would consider voting for someone else, and 27 percent said they didn't know or were undecided. The error margin of the poll, which surveyed 658 likely voters by telephone from Jan. 30 through Feb. 4, is 3.8...

<p>The only Democrat running an active campaign for the U.S. Senate from Kentucky has won the endorsement of organized labor but lost two experienced staff members.</p> <p>The Kentucky State AFL-CIO endorsed state Sen. Daniel Mongiardo of Hazard yesterday, sending another signal that no other Democrat is likely to mount an active effort to unseat first-term Republican Sen. Jim Bunning.</p>

Washington — U.S. Senator Jon Corzine (D-NJ), Chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), endorsed Kentucky State Senator Daniel Mongiardo M.D. today and hailed his candidacy for the U.S. Senate. The full text of Senator Corzine's statement appears below. "Doctor Dan Mongiardo is a man who has dedicated his life to helping others and we are delighted to have him running for the U.S. Senate in Kentucky," said Corzine. "Dan is known for his tremendous energy and passion and he is recognized by many for his hard work in the state Senate to improve access to affordable health care...

<p>Louisville lawyer Fred Cowan pulled out of the race for the U.S. Senate yesterday, saying Democrats' loss of the governorship had made it impossible for him to unseat first-term Republican Sen. Jim Bunning next November.</p> <p>Cowan's withdrawal leaves state Sen. Daniel Mongiardo of Hazard as the only Democratic candidate, but state Treasurer Jonathan Miller said he is still considering the race and other key Democrats mentioned other potential candidates.</p>

Nunn And Mongiardo Are At It Again, Another Bad ‘Health’ Bill State Representative Steve Nunn (R-Glasgow) has prefiled (BR 107) another massive, expensive, and intrusive so-called health bill. The purpose of this bill is to do away with Kentucky laws dealing with the privacy of our medical records in order to create a national health information system, under the guise of creating a better health care system. State Senator Daniel Mongiardo (D-Hazard) prefiled (BR 244) an identical bill in the Senate. The bill would establish an electronic health network to “simplify administrative tasks and support evidence based clinical decisions,...