GOP ticket with tea party support close to forming

"The first Republican gubernatorial ticket for 2011 — and one with the backing of tea party activists — could be announced by the end of this week and perhaps as soon as Tuesday, key conservatives confirmed to cn|2 Politics on Monday night.

Conservative radio show host Leland Conway said he has been put on notice that a slate could be announced on his afternoon radio show on Lexington’s WLAP-630 AM “as early as tomorrow.”

Conway said he wasn’t at liberty to talk about who might be on the ticket. But he eliminated the possibility that he might be a candidate in 2011.

The name of David Adams, the campaign chairman of Republican candidate Rand Paul’s U.S. Senate bid, has popped up in the middle of much speculation about the ticket..."

GOP ticket with tea party support close to forming

Kentucky Farm Bureau to host "Measure the Candidates" forum on July 22 for U.S. Senate race nominees

Kentucky Farm Bureau to host "Measure the Candidates"
forum on July 22 for U.S. Senate race nominees

"Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul has raised eyebrows in Kentucky's agricultural world by his repeated criticism of federal subsidies for farming operations, which he says disproportionately favor corporate farming.

He'll have a chance to explain his position and perhaps defend it when he and Democratic Senate candidate Jack Conway appear before the Kentucky Farm Bureau's Board of Directors on July 22 in Louisville for a "Measure the Candidates" forum.

The Farm Bureau plans to compare the candidates responses to Bureau policy on energy, environmental regulations, fiscal policy, health care, immigration & farm labor, international trade & marketing and national farm policy...." Rand Paul Farm Bureau