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Will Grayson Go Down With Fletcher?

6:23 PM Wed, Oct 31, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson says he's been worried about Ernie Fletcher's coattails dragging him down on election day. But Grayson believes his ad campaign will give him better name recognition with voters and, perhaps, help him avoid democratic straight ticket voting.

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Past Election Margins

6:15 PM Wed, Oct 31, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

With Governor Fletcher trailing Steve Beshear in the polls, I decided to see how a Beshear landslide might rank among the past 36 years of gubernatorial elections.

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C-J Poll Mirrors WHAS-TV Poll

6:11 PM Wed, Oct 31, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

Steve Beshear has a 23 point lead over Ernie Fletcher in the latest Courier-Journal Bluegrass State poll.

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Beshear's Lead Widens - Survey USA

6:49 PM Tue, Oct 30, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

Steve Beshear has widened his lead over Ernie Fletcher and appears headed toward a double digit win in the Kentucky governor's race. Here's my story from Tuesday when I followed Fletcher and Beshear on the campaign trail.

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Fletcher Politically Tone Deaf??? UPDATED (2)

6:26 PM Tue, Oct 30, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

Governor Fletcher may have tipped his hand that he thinks the election might be over. It may have happened before and during the governor's news conference on Peabody Energy on Monday.

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Beshear Campaign Calling State Offices?

6:13 PM Mon, Oct 29, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

Governor Fletcher's campaign is accusing Steve Beshear's campaign of making illegal calls to state employees.

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Peabody Not a Done Deal, Fletcher Happy, McConnell Silent

5:55 PM Mon, Oct 29, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

I know it made headlines, including a big story on our station, but there really wasn't much news out of today's announcement from Governor Fletcher and Peabody Energy Corporation.

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Beshear Getting Big Money From Three Counties

11:19 PM Sat, Oct 27, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

The home county of Ernie Fletcher and Steve Beshear is giving big money to the challenger, according to an analysis by Fletcher's former press secretary.

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Tina Conner Loses Appeal

10:49 PM Sat, Oct 27, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

The only person who was ever charged with a crime in the Paul Patton-Tina Conner scandal has lost her legal appeal.

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McConnell Helping Firm in Bribery Probe

10:44 PM Sat, Oct 27, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

The Lexington Herald-Leader is reporting that Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell is trying to earmakr federal money to a defense contractor that's the focus of a bribery investigation.

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Conway Cruising in A.G. Race

7:25 PM Sat, Oct 27, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

Although candidates from Louisville can't seem to win the governorship, candidates from Kentucky's largest city always seem to do well in the down ticket races.

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Grayson in Tight Race - WTVQ/H-L Poll

6:07 PM Fri, Oct 26, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

It looks like there really is a chance that being a republican candidate in Kentucky this fall may be enough to get one beat.

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"Yes" Has Big Lead in Library Tax Vote

5:54 PM Fri, Oct 26, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

The first public poll on the Louisville library tax referendum shows supporters far outnumber opponents. But the biggest number, in terms of impact, is the undecideds.

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Beshear Outraises Fletcher 4:1 in Last 15 Days

5:45 PM Fri, Oct 26, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

Steve Beshear crushed Ernie Fletcher in fundraising over the past 15 days but doesn't have much more that Fletcher left in the bank for the closing days of the election.

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Another Asst. A.G. Busted

5:37 PM Fri, Oct 26, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

Another employee of Greg Stumbo has been arrested, this time for allegedly stalking a female co-worker.

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Peabody Finally Coming?

8:04 AM Fri, Oct 26, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

It looks like Peabody Energy is finally going to pull the trigger and announce that they plan to build a coal-to-natural gas plant somewhere in Western Kentucky.

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Fletcher and Beshear Campaigning UPDATED

12:38 PM Thu, Oct 25, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

Ernie Fletcher and Steve Beshear are both is Louisville today, Fletcher at a prayer breakfast attended by about 75 people, Beshear at a rally at a union hall tonight (about 200 people). Here's my story.

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Polls With Half the Story

12:20 PM Thu, Oct 25, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

The AFL-CIO and Governor Fletcher's former press secretary have new polls out that tell us what we'd expect a poll from those respective groups to say.

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Immigration Report Is Political Fodder

6:13 PM Wed, Oct 24, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

A series of recommendations which are about to be issued by a Lexington task force on immigration has apparently sparked a firestorm of controversy.

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Month Old Poll Shows Grayson Tied

8:02 AM Wed, Oct 24, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

The Lane Report's October issue shows Secretary of State Trey Grayson locked in a dead heat with Democrat Bruce Hendricksen.

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Lawmakers Can't Ask Lobbyists for Donations

9:54 PM Tue, Oct 23, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

State lawmakers haven't been allowed to ask Frankfort lobbyists for campaign donations to their own campaigns since the post Boptrot ethics reforms. Now lawmakers can't ask lobbyists to contribute to their political parties either.

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Gays, Casinos, Bridges and Schools

9:41 PM Tue, Oct 23, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

As part of our televised debate Sunday night, we asked Survey USA to poll some hot button issues for us, so we might use some of the results during the gubernatorial debate. Here are some of the results:

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Kentucky Not A Battleground

6:01 PM Tue, Oct 23, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

A new article in Roll Call suggests that Kentucky, West Virginia and Ohio won't be the political battlegrounds that they were in 2006.

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Boy is my head that much bigger than Hebert's?

5:15 PM Tue, Oct 23, 2007 |
http://www.whas11.com/bios/jarnold.js

I don't know about you, but my intrusion on to Mark's political blogosphere looks scary to me.

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New Wrinkle in Library Tax Plan UPDATED

4:59 PM Tue, Oct 23, 2007 |
http://www.whas11.com/bios/jarnold.js

Is the library tax increase proposal a way to bail the city out of growing health care and pension costs?

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More on Survey USA/WHAS-TV Gov's Poll UPDATE

1:15 PM Tue, Oct 23, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

Here's some more of the information and breakouts on the Survey USA/WHAS-TV poll released today. UPDATE: Video of story I did at 5 on Tues.

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Fletcher Losing Ground - Survey USA

10:03 AM Tue, Oct 23, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

The new Survey USA/WHAS 11 poll is not kind to Governor Fletcher's reelection chances.

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Colbert With FEC Probs???

11:44 PM Mon, Oct 22, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

I know comedian Stephen Colbert isn't serious about running for president, but there is a pretty funny possibility out there if he manages to file proper papers.

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Fletcher Hirings Not As Political As Portrayed

6:29 PM Mon, Oct 22, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

This story that I did last week didn't make it to our web page, so I thought I'd share the guts of it with you web surfers.

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Fletcher/Beshear Debate

8:31 PM Sun, Oct 21, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

First, an apology to Governor Fletcher. As you watch the debate you'll see I challenged his recollection of the fate of the "Boni Bill" during the 2007 legislative session.

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Murg Hit With Ethics Charges

3:34 PM Fri, Oct 19, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

Former Deputy State Transportation Secretary Dick Murgatroyd has been gone from the Fletcher adminstration more than two years. But today he was hit with ethics charges in connection with his actions while he was in Frankfort.

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Glass Ceiling Punched By Judge Clayton

8:24 PM Thu, Oct 18, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

Kentucky finally has its first female african american judge, courtesy of an appointment from a Republican governor.

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Stumbo Pleased With Defeat

8:19 PM Thu, Oct 18, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

I'm trying to figure out why Greg Stumbo is happy with a ruling from a Franklin Circuit judge, allowing the Executive Branch Ethics Commission to go forward with an investigation of his office.

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I.G.'s Employee Wins Ethics Award

8:14 PM Thu, Oct 18, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

Well isn't this a stick in the eye of the Transportation Cabinet?

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Live Debate on Sunday Night

6:32 PM Thu, Oct 18, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

We need your questions for the debate Sunday night between Ernie Fletcher and Steve Beshear.

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Comment On Kentucky Audience Avail

12:48 PM Thu, Oct 18, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

If you want to watch one of Al Smith's last hostings of KET's Comment on Kentucky, you can watch live in Louisville this friday.

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Fletcher Loses Donors to Beshear

9:44 PM Wed, Oct 17, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

It appears lots of folks who gave money to the candidate who promised to "clean up the mess in Frankfort" in 2003 have decided to give money to the candidate who's pledging to "stop the corruption" this time around.

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S.O.B. Back in Action

9:31 PM Wed, Oct 17, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

The Old State Office Building, where hundreds of political deals were cut in the old Transportation Cabinet offices, has been refurbished and is about to reopen.

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Kentuckians Favor Thompson, McCain Over Hillary

11:03 AM Wed, Oct 17, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

A Survey USA/WHAS-TV poll of Kentuckians shows they would narrowly pick Fred Thompson or John McKain in a head to head matchup with Hillary Clinton.

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More on McConnell and Controversy

10:57 AM Wed, Oct 17, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

Jim Carroll of the C-J has more on the continuing controversy surrounding the criticism of Graeme Frost, the 12-year-old boy who democrats used to help boost their case for passage of the S-Chip bill.

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Roberts Raises Over $100,000 For Congressional Bid

10:37 PM Tue, Oct 16, 2007 |
Mark Hebert

Former Fletcher administration official Erwin Roberts reports raising more than $100,000 since he filed to run for the 3rd District Congressional seat currently held by John Yarmuth.

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