But here's a summary:

Henry: In his opening statement, Dr. Henry told the group "I run a charity clinic at U of L".
That's not true. As the C-J pointed out in a story on monday, Henry's agreement with University Hospital was not renewed this year. When I asked Henry about the error, he said he'd put aside his medical work to run for governor. When I reminded Henry that he'd told the group that he currently runs a health care clinic, he responded by saying that he'd seen more than 20,000 patients during his years at U of L. When I kept pressing and asking if he wasn't misleading people to believe he was still practicing medicine, Henry responded that he won't try to see patients while he's campaigning. Henry did say he's got an offer from Norton Healthcare to work at a clinic in Lexington on weekends and says he might do that even if he's elected governor. I haven't checked to see if Norton has made such an offer. In the oddest moment at the forum, Dr. Henry dashed off the dais to aid a woman who had fainted. She was OK.
Henry also pointed out that he's the only democrat who favors capping punitive damages on awards in malpractice lawsuits.

And Henry obviously had no idea that state election laws prohibit him from recouping the more than $1,000,000 he loaned his campaign for governor. As blogger Mark Nickolas pointed out on Bluegrass candidates can only recoup up to $50,000 of the loans they give their own campaigns. Three times yesterday, I asked Henry if he was aware of that law when he made the loan to his campaign. He ducked the question the first two times then finally answered that whether he knew the law or not was "irrelevant........the money's there and we're going to spend it."

Richards: The House Speaker may have made the biggest flip flop of the campaign today. He joined others in jabbing Steve Beshear claim that he's the only candidate who has a plan to pay for seniors health care, education, more social workers, etc.......pass a casino gambling referendum. Richards told reporters that voters should be able to convince their representatives in Frankfort to put the issue on the ballot and he would not oppose that as governor. When I asked if he would personally vote to legalize casinos on election day, Richards said no. He also refused to say how he would vote on a constitutional amendment in 2008 if he's still Speaker of the House.
That's a major flip flop from a february forum sponsored by the Kentucky School Boards Association. I was the moderator and asked the candidates if they supported putting the casino issue on the ballot. Richards raised his hand. I then asked who would personally vote for the casino referendum in the voting booth. All of the democrats present raised their hands, including Richards, stunning me and Jack Brammer of the Lexington Herald-Leader who were the only two reporters in the room. We even asked Richards about his change of heart and he said he felt it was something he had to do. At the time Richards' finance chairman was Larry Townsend who has an interest in casinos. Townsend is no longer with the Richards/Brown campaign. That could have played a role in Richards now flopping back closer to his original position on casinos.
When I asked Richards about the chances of him dropping out of the race and supporting the man who dropped out and supported him in the 2003 governor's race, Bruce Lunsford, Richards said the chances are "zero". He says he's in the race to stay and predicted that he'll be one of the two candidates in a run off election in June.

Lunsford: Lunsford told the crowd that should keep a copy of his "Blueprint for Change" and use it as a checklist to see what he's done and hasn't done as governor. Lunsford says one word will define a Lunsford/Stumbo administration "accountability".
The Vencor founder says he's focused on getting more than 40% of the vote on May 22nd and avoiding a run off.

Galbraith: Had all of the best one liners of the day, as usual. Watch the video of my story for the best one. Galbraith also said he'd look at the tough issue of grandparents rights in custody cases.

Beshear: Hammered home his support for casinos and said he didn't think his opponents were targeting him. It appeared that way to reporters because Henry and Richards both said Beshear was gambling with Kentucky's future and that casinos wouldn't solve all of Kentucky's funding problems.

Northup: Apologized for Fletcher not being at a forum that he'd promised to attend and continued her attack on Fletcher's lack of leadership. Pointed out that as a congressman, Ernie Fletcher opposed legislation to allow drug reimportation. That was one of the few issues on which Northup disagreed with her party's leadership.
Northup also jokingly asked the democrats to join her at more of the forums she's been attending with Fletcher. The dems talked about Kentucky's problems and Fletcher's poor leadership. Northup says all she ever hears from Fletcher is how wonderful his administration has been for Kentucky and that the economy, education and health care systems are in fine shape. As I reported in a previous post, Fletcher backed out of the AARP forum yesterday afternoon, telling the organizers he couldn't figure out a way to make their debate and get to a bio-tech conference in Boston on time. Fletcher's campaign spokesman, Marty Ryall, told me that there are no campaign functions scheduled for Fletcher on this trip.