When reminded that he'd spent that much running for governor, Lunsford countered that he was an unknown candidate and had to spend that much to boost his name recognition. Lunsford says that even though McConnell has spent $6 million already, Lunsford is still holding on to his ankles, a reference to a Survey USA poll which shows McConnell with a single digit lead over Lunsford. A spokesman for McConnell said the senator would have no response to Lunsford's remarks.

Lunsford answered questions after doing another one of those "walk a mile in my shoes" type things where he did a blue collar job for a few hours. Lunsford was wearing sneakers, blue jeans and a Butler Bears cap and t-shirt as he helped the janitors at Butler High School clean a big room. Lunsford worked up a sweat scrubbing walls, mopping floors and running a floor buffing machine. And it didn't look like he was one of those rich guys who'd never done a day of manual labor in their life. The labor union that set up the work day had also asked Mitch McConnell to participate but hadn't received a response, according to a spokesman.

Meanwhile, Lunsford also told me, after some serious pressing, that he would have voted for the Medicare bill that was passed by the U.S. Senate this week. Lunsford says he has some serious reservations about the bill, which stymied a 10% cut in Medicare payments to doctors and instead gave them a 1.1% hike in fees. Lunsford also reluctantly acknowledged that he would have voted for the FISA bill that was passed by the Senate and signed into law by President Bush this week. Again, I had to ask Lunsford four times how he would have voted on the bill. His first couple of answers made it sound like he would have voted against the eavesdropping bill because Lunsford believes it infringes on personal freedoms and he doesn't like the part of the bill that retroactively absolves telecommunications companies of any wrongdoing for turning over private records to the Bush administration. But in the end, Lunsford says he would have come down on the side of protecting the country and reluctantly voted for the bill. It sounds alot like what Barack Obama did.