McConnell gets $75million for VA Kentucky

Senator Mitch McConnell worked with the Senate Appropriations Committee to secure $75 million for the construction of a new Veterans Administration medical center in Louisville. Read more from the Courier-Journal:

""A Senate panel today agreed to provide $75 million for the new Veterans Affairs hospital in Louisville — a $30 million increase over what the House would spend.
The increase was requested by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and would be used for design work on the new facility...." McConnell gets 75 million for VA in KY


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"Inspired, perhaps, by Newt Gingrich’s “Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less” petition, one group -- led by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) -- is trying to do something about the price of gasoline right now.
McConnell -- joined by 42 Senate Republicans -- introduced the “Gas Price Reduction Act of 2008” on June 26. The bill -- which Reid has so far refused a vote -- would open up 14 billion barrels of oil in the Outer Continental Shelf to oil drilling at the option of the states.
More than three times the oil reserves of Saudi Arabia are embedded in Western states’ oil shale, estimated at 800 billion to 2 trillion barrels of recoverable oil. The Gas Price Reduction Act also lifts the Congressionally-imposed moratorium on exploration and development of this huge oil reserve. ..." McConnell Energy Bill

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Lunsford in Chicago for July 4th

from Kentucky Politics:
"Now, we learn that Bruce went back home to Chicago for the weekend, on his private jet. (See pictured.) Campaigning is rough business, we realize. But the clock is ticking and election day isn't that far away. Don't you think a candidate for U.S. Senate, especially someone who's way behind in the polls, should have stayed in Kentucky to make the Fourth of July..." Kentucky Politics

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Evangelical Leaders Support McCain

Evangelical Leaders meet and decide to back Sen John McCain
More than 90 evangelical leaders representing millions of conservative Christians met in Denver on Tuesday to lament the condition of the religious conservative movement and to conclude they should get behind Sen. John McCain even if they didn’t like everything about him as a candidate.

“The alternative is so bad we must support John McCain,” said Phyllis Schlafly, founder and president of Eagle Forum, adding that the leaders should have held a strategy meeting in 2001 when it was clear Vice President Dick Cheney wouldn’t run for president instead of waiting until four months before the 2008 election.....Evangelical leaders meet and decide to support John McCain

Poll Gives Davis Big Edge

"Two-term Republican Congressman Geoff Davis of Boone County holds a 13-point lead over Democrat Michael Kelley in a poll released Tuesday.

Davis leads Kelley, an Oldham County physician making his first run for office, 54 percent to 41 percent, according to a SurveyUSA poll done for WCPO-TV in Cincinnati, WLEX-TV in Lexington and WHAS-TV in Louisville. The automated phone poll of 550 likely voters was conducted June 28-30 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.2 percentage points.

Five percent of voters are undecided.

"There's only one poll that matters, and that's on Election Day," Davis campaign manager Jeremy Hughes said in an e-mail. "Congressman Davis is raising funds, organizing volunteers, and preparing for another tough election. We will take nothing for granted this fall."

According to the poll, Davis leads among men (by 22 points) and women (by 6 points) over Kelley. Kelley leads by 3 points among voters 18 to 34. Davis leads by 14 percentage points among voters 35 to 49, 19 percentage points among voters 50 to 64 and 27 percentage points among voters 65 and older.

In the poll, 21 percent of Democrats cross party lines to support Davis; 9 percent of Republicans support Kelley.".... Poll Gives Davis Edge

Jane Roe of Roe v Wade speaks in Louisville KY

Kentucky Doctors For Life Foundation,Inc.
Presents The Third Annual Hyman/Hulsman Memorial Lecture MISS NORMA MCCORVEY – Jane Roe of Roe v Wade – Speaking Out for the Unborn and Sharing Her Conviction for Life
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
St. Matthews Community Center, 310 Ten Pin Lane, Louisville, KY 40207
6:00 PM Doors Open 6:30 PM Dinner 7:30 PM Program
“Miss Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe of Roe v Wade) reluctantly became the poster child for the pro-choice movement. After much pain, and much death and so many ill-considered choices she found out that the real choice was not [about] abortion but about eternal life. It was a choice that would shock the world and change Norma’s life…” –Excerpt from “Won by Love” by Norma McCorvey with Gary Thomas. more from Kentucky Doctors for Life (Reservations & advanced tickets required)
"Won by Love" by Norma McCorvey