Public Campaign Action Fund - Kentucky

McConnell Breaks Record

Katie Schlieper — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:48:23 -0500

Everyone's favorite opponent of Clean Elections just broke a Kentucky fundraising record, reporting $12.2 million in contributions for his Senate re-election bid. And from where is Sen. Mitch McConnell raising such massive sums? Why, from Wall Street, lobbyists, the coal industry and others of course, and most of that money is coming from out of state. It's going to be quite a line outside the Senator's door to get a return on investment for those millions.

About Speech

Katie Schlieper — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:44:36 -0500

Kentucky lawyer Edward Bonnie attacks the "free speech" arguments against public financing of elections in the Courier Journal op-ed. Arguing that Fair and Clean Elections programs promote, rather than limit, speech Bonnie talks up the promise of the Fair Elections Now Act introduced in the Senate while questioning whether we want to continue to have Sen. Mitch McConnell-style elections where money is the yardstick for a candidate's worth.

Strange Contrast

Katie Schlieper — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:35:33 -0500

Interesting development: Kentucky state Sen. Damon Thayer (R) has introduced a bill to increase the frequency of campaign finance disclosure reports that candidates must submit in an effort to boost transparency of campaign finances. Incidentally, Thayer is the same Senator who worked to get rid of the public financing program for gubernatorial campaigns that Kentucky had.

Ad Gets Censored

Katie Schlieper — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:17:26 -0500

Yesterday we released this ad about Mitch McConnell and his ties to big money special interests. At the 11th hour last night a cable company Insight Communications, with ties to McConnell, pulled the ad from their rotation without cause or notice. Smells like censorship to us...

What Is McConnell Hiding?

Katie Schlieper — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:11:11 -0500

Well, we've tried asking nicely but it hasn't worked so far so today, together with the Sunlight Foundation who have led this from the very beginning, we are taking things up a notch in our effort to get Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to reveal who is holding up a bill that would require Senators to file their campaign finance reports electronically.

McConnell's Deposition

David Donnelly — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:35:56 -0500

Along with today's announcement of a billboard going up in Louisville to ask, "What's McConnell Hiding?" I dug up an ol' goody from the dustbin. Read on...

Getting Under McConnell's Skin?

David Donnelly — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:24:32 -0500

On Friday, the Louisville Courier-Journal wrote an editorial about Senator "Big Money" Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) fundraiser with President Bush. It was called "Cash over conscience." Today, McConnell replied. Read more...

Reward your friends, punish your enemies, get indicted

David Donnelly — Thu, 11 May 2006 20:41:30 -0500

Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher (R) got indicted for directing “the appointment, promotion, demotion, transfer or dismissal” of staff on the basis of campaign donations and political affiliation.