Post by Logan on Feb 3, 2016 4:19:15 GMT -6
Money keeps flowing from out of state for Kentucky House Republican candidates
FRANKFORT -- More Republican dollars are flowing into Kentucky to help GOP candidates in the four special House elections on March 8.
GOPAC, which works to elect Republicans to state and local offices throughout the country, announced Tuesday that it is putting more than $100,000 into the Kentucky House special elections called by Gov. Matt Bevin to fill vacancies.
Its announcement comes on the heels of a decision by the Republican State Leadership Committee, based in Washington, D.C., to launch a digital ad buy around the state trying to tie the Democratic candidates in the special elections to President Obama.
State Democratic Party chairwoman Sannie Overly, a state representative from Paris, said the Kentucky House position as the last legislative chamber in the South held by Democrats made it “a target, maybe the No. 1 target, of outside groups, dark money and special interests.
Read more here: www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article57909028.html
FRANKFORT -- More Republican dollars are flowing into Kentucky to help GOP candidates in the four special House elections on March 8.
GOPAC, which works to elect Republicans to state and local offices throughout the country, announced Tuesday that it is putting more than $100,000 into the Kentucky House special elections called by Gov. Matt Bevin to fill vacancies.
Its announcement comes on the heels of a decision by the Republican State Leadership Committee, based in Washington, D.C., to launch a digital ad buy around the state trying to tie the Democratic candidates in the special elections to President Obama.
State Democratic Party chairwoman Sannie Overly, a state representative from Paris, said the Kentucky House position as the last legislative chamber in the South held by Democrats made it “a target, maybe the No. 1 target, of outside groups, dark money and special interests.
Read more here: www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article57909028.html