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2 years

The Kentucky Democratic Party is filing a lawsuit against new Republican-drawn redistricting maps for the state House and Kentucky's 6 congressional districts

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Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams says for the first time, the number of registered Republicans outnumber Democrats in the state

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Organizers have asked the audience to move out of the seats and closer to the stage ahead of Trump Jr/ Gov. Bevin event in Pikeville. I think it's fair to say this is sparsely attended.

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Breonna Taylor Grand Jurors File Petition To Impeach AG Daniel Cameron

Breonna Taylor Grand Jurors File Petition To Impeach AG Daniel Cameron

They allege Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron misled the public about the case and misrepresented the grand jury’s actions.

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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says that if people go to mass gatherings this weekend, the state will record license plates in crowded parking lots (like churches), local health departments will order people connected with license plates to quarantine for 14 days.

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Watching the U.S. Capitol get stormed with little resistance by mostly-white Trump supporters, it's hard to not think of how quickly Louisville police responded to racial justice protesters this summer with riot gear, tear gas, pepper balls, sound cannons.

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The ACLU and Planned Parenthood have filed a state lawsuit challenging Kentucky's abortion bans, arguing that the Kentucky Constitution "protects the right to privacy and bodily autonomy."

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5 years

We are now getting our second dose--in a row--of "You Can't Always Get What You Want"

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6 years

Man denied a marriage license by Rowan Co. Clerk Kim Davis in 2015 files paperwork with Kim Davis to run against Kim Davis

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David Ermold filing his candidacy with County Clerk Kim Davis.

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Trump Jr mostly praising his father, criticizing detractors and Democratic presidential candidates at Bevin campaign event in Pikeville

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After violent Charlottesville white nationalist rally, Lexington Mayor Gray plans to remove Confederate statues from old county courthouse

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I am taking action to relocate the Confederate statues. We have thoroughly examined this issue, and heard from many of our citizens.

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Angry teachers rallying against last minute pension bill moving quickly through Kentucky legislature

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Kentucky's State Board of Elections clarified that people who requested a mail-in ballot but haven't received it yet will still be able to vote in person on primary day, tomorrow. They'll be able to "cancel" their absentee ballot at the polling place, cast a new ballot in person

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Trump Jr says he partly grew up in the rust belt because he went to a boarding school in Pottstown, PA, understands working class issues "This not your grandfather's Democrat Party, this is socialism"

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Gov. Bevin’s lawyers say Rowan County should have to pay legal bill for former clerk Kim Davis' actions Saying the clerk's office "should be deterred from engaging in conduct that violates civil rights — and leads to costly litigation” via @heraldleader

Gov. Bevin’s lawyers say Kim Davis failed to do her job as clerk, must pay the bill

Gov. Matt Bevin is appealing a ruling that the state of Kentucky owes nearly $225,000 in litigation costs from the Rowan County gay marriage protest in 2015.

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Eight people have filed a petition to impeach Kentucky GOP Rep. Robert Goforth, who was indicted on assault charges for strangling his wife with an ethernet cable last year

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@RyanVanVelzer The Kentucky Senate votes to make it a crime to insult a police officer, boost "rioting" penalties 22-11

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*Some personal news* today is my last day as managing editor of Kentucky Public Radio…this feisty collab of @WFPLNews @889WEKU @wkupublicradio @wkms I’m starting a gig with NPR, editing folks covering state governments across the country. Best part: I get to do this from KY!

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4 years

LMPD says "it wasn't safe" for them to try and break up the skirmish/shoutfest between militia/BLM downtown "we did not want to escalate the situation with police presence." LMPD has not been shy about breaking up much more peaceful protests than this earlier.

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6 years

Rep. Bam Carney says he's "embarrassed" by teachers who oppose pension changes. "Do your job, don't talk politics and teach." A teacher in the House gallery yells "you're a scab, Bam Carney"

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4 years

Gov. Beshear says the statue of Jefferson Davis should be removed from the Kentucky Capitol Rotunda

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2 years

Some personal news...I've got a new job leading the Ohio Valley ReSource and Kentucky Public Radio Network. It's a new position where I get to build on OVR's excellent work covering KY, OH and WV while managing KPR's Capitol coverage and helping the stations collaborate.

Louisville Public Media

@LouPubMedia

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LPM has promoted longtime politics and government reporter @RylandKY to Managing Editor of Collaboratives, a newly created role to serve as the editorial and operational leader of the @OVReSRC and the Kentucky Public Radio Network. See all the details at

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Gov. Andy Beshear wraps up today's update by playing John Prine's version of My Old Kentucky Home. Oof.

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Gov. Andy Beshear says that Kentucky needs to move forward with a vote by mail plan for the June 23 primary

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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has issued an executive order requiring everyone to wear a mask in public, starting Friday at 5 pm

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3 years

Elizabeth Warren endorses Charles Booker, comparing the race in Kentucky to her first run for senate in Massachusetts in 2012.

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4 years

The mostly-white armed militia has left downtown Louisville. LMPD arrives on the scene with only Black Lives Matter protesters remaining

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GOP Sen. Danny Carroll, who represents Marshall County, updates legislators on damage, response in western Kentucky. Says "You all know how critical I am of our governor. I'm very proud of our governor today. Seeing the way he has handled this..."

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4 years

A reminder that if you want to vote in person in Louisville, you can do it early

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4 years

No lines right now at the Ky Fair and Exposition Center, Jefferson County’s only polling location this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Tomorrow (June 23) is the last day to vote.

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5 years

State Rep John Blanton up first, praises Bevin for signing anto-abortion bills into law

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Beshear on bill allowing some non-essential businesses to reopen “Do you trust the governor led by the dept of public health and all of our medical officials, or do you trust the legislature and lobbyists that are talking to them each day based on monetary interests out there?"

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Matt Jones says iHeart Media has asked him to step back from his Kentucky Sports Radio show following (potential opponent) Mitch McConnell's complaint with the Federal Election Commission

Statement on KSR

Nice to be on the blog again, although unfortunately it is for this reason. Due to the Mitch McConnell complaint filed this morning with the FEC against me, iHeart Radio has asked that I not be on...

www.on3.com

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4 years

You know what would have made these events clearer? Body camera footage.

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Lexington, KY

HLpublicsafety

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Protesters screamed “kneel with us” to police repeatedly. And eventually they did.

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Gov. Andy Beshear announces that Kentucky's unemployment rate is 3.9%, the lowest in state history

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GOP Atty General candidate Daniel Cameron says if he elected, he'll "stand up for the rights of the born"

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2 years

The ACLU of Kentucky says they will sue to block HB 3, the 15-week abortion ban that also restricts abortion medication and makes it harder for minors to access the procedure

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Toyota will build its first U.S.-made electric vehicle at factory in Kentucky

Toyota’s first U.S.-made electric vehicle will be built at its huge complex in Georgetown, Kentucky. It will be a new SUV with three rows of seats.

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4 years

Hey Kentucky voters, you can now request a mail-in absentee ballot for the June 23 primary elections at You can also register to vote there. Deadline is May 26 for that.

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Louisville police say they had most of their resources at Churchill Downs and that's why they weren't around when the militia was gathering in Cox Park at 8:00 am/marching on downtown. Officers suddenly showed up after militia left and it was only BLM downtown.

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5 years

Trump Jr says he's often accused of being a racist, but he "must be a really bad one" because he has a Puerto Rican girlfriend

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4 years

Police just told @jess_m_clark and me not to put our hands up when we walked by, saying it looked "ridiculous" and that we wouldn't be targeted if we weren't doing anything violent. I got hit with pepper balls and tear gassed earlier, definitely wasnt doing anything violent.

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Gov. Beshear has vetoed HB 3, the omnibus abortion bill that makes it harder for minors to get abortions, restricts abortion medication and bans abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy

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4 years

Gov Andy Beshear announcing waive the $120 testing fee for the GED. Says there are 335,000 Kentuckians without a GED/diploma

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4 years

The armed militia has left and now police have shown up

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7 years

Sen Rand Paul: AG Sessions' rollback of Obama-era drug prosecution policy will accentuate injustice against minorities

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2 years

This is around the corner from my parents' house in Gilbertsville, Kentucky. Heartbroken.

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5 years

Donald Trump Jr. Headlines Sparsely-Attended Bevin Rally In Pikeville

It was the latest in a string of events attended by President Trump and his surrogates supporting Bevin’s reelection bid.

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4 years

Gov. Andy Beshear on Kentucky flattening the curve: “We’ve almost cut the top off that muffin”

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7 years

Campaign of Amy McGrath--fighter pilot seeking Andy Barr's seat in Congress--says intro vid viewed 1.1 mil times, raised $343,339 in 3 days

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2 years

New abortion clinic to open in southern Illinois with plans to serve Kentucky, other states via @wkms @liamniemeyer

New abortion clinic to open in southern Illinois with plans to serve Kentucky, other states

A Tennessee abortion provider announced earlier this week it was opening a new location in southern Illinois that would serve people seeking abortions from surrounding states, including Kentucky,...

www.wkms.org

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6 years

Rep. Jonathan Shell, a member of KY House leadership, has lost the Republican primary election to challenger Travis Brenda, a teacher

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3 years

The Nelson Co Kentucky GOP voted to censure Mitch McConnell today, saying "McConnell has abandoned his Republican base that put him in office.” via @KyStandard

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2 years

Congressman John Yarmuth has endorsed Charles Booker in Kentucky's U.S. Senate race next year

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4 years

Um. This guy is handing out wasp spray and Raid, says "it's better than mace"

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6 years

Kentucky Senate passes ban on child marriage 34-3

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3 years

According to a CDC study conducted in Kentucky, people who contract COVID and recover but don't get vaccinated are more than twice as likely to contract it again compared to people who get the vaccine.

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4 years

To be clear, the wanton endangerment charges against Hankison are for endangering neighbors--not Taylor-- because bullets ended up in neighbors' apartments. Indictments below

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7 years

Thousands are lined up for President Trump rally in Louisville. Doors at 4:30, event at 7:30

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5 years

Lt. Gov. Jenean Hampton, who Gov. Bevin dropped from reelection ticket last week, "liked" this tweet

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4 years

A horse named Fauci won the day's first race at Keeneland

Keeneland Racing

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#5 Fauci wins the opener on the Thursday card at #Keeneland !

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5 years

Protestors interrupt Mitch McConnell's introduction of Sen. Tim Kaine at U of L

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Student journalists at Manual High School in Louisville discovered Kentucky State Police training materials that quote Hitler and Robert E. Lee and encourage troopers how to be a "ruthless killer"

Manual RedEye

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4 years

Manual Student journalists obtained a PowerPoint used in Kentucky State police training. These slides quote historical figures such as Hitler and Robert E. Lee and encourage police to be “ruthless killer[s].” Click here to learn more:

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6 years

Meanwhile outside on the lawn of the KY Capitol there's a man on a horse with a ram's horn shouting about something

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If Kentucky were a country, it would have the 7th highest incarceration rate in the world. via @jaredtbennett

New report examines how Kentucky fills jails and prisons by criminalizing poverty

Researchers with the Vera Institute for Justice found the expansion in Kentucky’s criminal justice system has coincided with economic decline as coal and manufacturing jobs left the state.

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3 years

Three unnamed grand jurors from the Breonna Taylor case have filed an impeachment petition against Attorney General Daniel Cameron, alleging he misled the public about the case and misrepresented the grand jury’s actions.

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2 years

Gov. Andy Beshear has vetoed SB 1, the bill setting new requirements for how teachers talk about history/race and also shifting hiring authority/curriculum decisions from SBDMs to superintendents

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4 years

Gov. Andy Beshear advises Kentuckians against going to Tennessee because they haven't mandated as much social distancing during coronavirus. "I cannot control that Tennessee has not taken the steps that we have."

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1 year

Jesse Benton, former campaign manager to Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for soliciting an illegal contribution to Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.

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Keturah Herron has won the special election for House District 42 in the Louisville area. She will be the first openly-LGBTQ member of the Ky. House

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6 years

Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes also won't say if she's running for governor next year, but not ruling it out. Says women will be the "gale force wind behind this blue wave."

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5 years

Republicans in Kentucky's House of Representatives have invited Andy Beshear to their annual retreat via @MichonLindstrom

House Republicans Invite Beshear to Annual Retreat

House Republicans say they are willing to work with Beshear.

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3 years

Democratic Rep. Attica Scott has filed a bill that would require Kentucky middle and high schools to discuss the history of racism

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5 years

US Rep. Hal Rogers, who is seeking his 21st term in Congress next year, stumps for Bevin "it's up to us. To decide if we want to continue that relationship."

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9 years

Federal judge has put Rowan co clerk in marshal custody until she complies with order to issue marriage licenses http://t.co/zXK7ijkgb2

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4 years

The Jefferson County grand jury will present its report on the Breonna Taylor case to a judge at 1:15 this afternoon

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6 years

As one of its last acts of the 2018 Kentucky General Assembly, the Republican-led House voted to formally condemn Gov. Bevin for saying that children were sexually abused because teachers attended a protest in Frankfort yesterday

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GOP Rep. David Hale, a pastor, delivers a speech from the House Floor criticizing hecklers for "spewing hate" at Muslims who gathered at the Kentucky Capitol today. "I would die for their right to worship the god that they so choose"

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Lt Gov candidate Sen. Ralph Alvarado, says Kentucky got "fed up" with Democratic governors, that's why they elected Bevin in 2015

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Colmon Elridge is the new chair of the Kentucky Democratic Party. Elridge was a special adviser to former Gov. Steve Beshear and will be the first African American KDP chair.

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Bevin Says He Lost Because Democrats 'Harvested Votes In Urban Communities'

During an interview on 55KRC in Cincinnati, Bevin said that the election was a “surprise” that defies logic.

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4 years

The group is marching through downtown Louisville. Still haven't seen a single police officer

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Trump Jr says because Lt Gov candidate Ralph Alvarado is a doctor "He doesn't need to do this. He's not a career politicians. He's not a family legacy"

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4 years

KY Senate candidate Charles Booker holding a rally outside Paristown Music Hall in Louisville. He's headed to Northern Kentucky and Lexington later today

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Gov. Beshear says Kentucky would be able to use funding from the federal infrastructure bill to pay for Brent Spence Bridge repairs "In cash...no tolls"

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5 years

Bevin up now. Gets coal mining, military, law enforcement members of audience to raise their hands. "This is why we're here. This is why elections matter"

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3 years

The Kentucky Supreme Court has unanimously ruled in favor of Gov. Andy Beshear's power to issue emergency orders during the coronavirus pandemic

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5 years

Federal Judge David Hale has temporarily blocked Ky's heartbeat abortion ban from going into effect, saying Ky's only abortion provider "laid out specific facts...that the rights of their patients would be immediately and irreparably harmed absent a temporary restraining order"

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6 years

Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes "people are sweating here today like Matt Bevin at a KEA meeting"

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4 years

Earlier today, McConnell issued a press release highlighting his comments on Hugh Hewitt's radio show, calling state revenue assistance "blue state bailouts." Kentucky is by most accounts a red state, and it has serious pension problems that will be exacerbated by the pandemic.

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There's a gathering of a couple hundred heavily armed people at Cox Park in Louisville this morning. Organizers say it's a "patriot rally" in support of police

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Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, who refused to give marriage licenses after the the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage, has lost her bid for reelection.

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5 years

Trump Jr calls reporters "the marketing wing of the Democrat Party"

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Trump Jr asks audience to vote for who audience's Democratic-voting grandfathers would have voted for...suggesting they would vote for Bevin

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Kimberly Guilfoyle stumping for Bevin "that's what Kentucky deserves, the very best." On Trump "is he crushing it, or what?"

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4 years

Hey @NPR , this is wrong, at least per the attorney general's investigation. AG says that none of the bullets shot by the officer indicted, Brett Hankison, hit Taylor.

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Still no portrait of Gov. Matt Bevin in the KY Historical Society's Hall of Governors