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Some Kentucky Republicans and Democrats will export their shoe-leather campaigning to battleground neighborhoods in Ohio, but not as part of any major state-wide organized efforts, party activists said. Ohio is bracing for volunteer armies for both Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama's campaigns to canvass just about every registered voter's doorstep in the state over the ...
(WHAS11) - The widow of Kentucky state representative Larry Belcher has been nominated to run in his place on the November ballot. Belcher was laid to rest over the weekend in Shepherdsville.
The widow of Kentucky State Rep. Larry Belcher will replace her husband on the November ballot.
The Kentucky Chamber Political Action Committee (PAC) has endorsed Rep. Mike Harmon (R-Junction City) for re-election in the upcoming general election. His selection for endorsement is based on his support for private enterprise and understanding of business issues, his past voting record and his answers to the Kentucky Chamber's 2008 Legislative Candidate Survey.
PINEVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The son of a small-town eastern Kentucky mayor has pleaded guilty to charges he conspired with his father to buy votes in a 2006 mayoral race.
More than $663,000 was given to candidates for November state and local races in southcentral Kentucky, about half of which has been spent, according to campaign finance reports filed this week with the Kentucky Registry of Election and Finance.
People in Ohio and Kentucky already have started casting ballots in this year's general election, and West Virginia voters get their chance this week. Early begins in West Virginia Oct. 15.
Visit www.herald-dispatch.com to download absentee voter applications for West Virginia and Ohio. Kentucky absentee voter applications must be picked up at the county clerk's office.
Two state Senate races this fall . one in Northern Kentucky, the other along Interstate 65 in southwest Kentucky . already have cost about $350,000 each. Meanwhile, candidates in Lexington's marquee race have raised a combined $114,228. Democrat Kathy Stein, who has served the last 12 years in the state House, and Republican Chuck Ellinger II, an at-large councilman in Lexington, are ...
The son of a small-town eastern Kentucky mayor has pleaded guilty to charges he conspired with his father to buy votes in a 2006 mayoral race. 45-year-old Brent Madon admitted he took voters to the courthouse to vote by absentee ballot for his father, Pineville Mayor Bob Madon.
The son of a small-town eastern Kentucky mayor has pleaded guilty to charges he conspired with his father to buy votes in a 2006 mayoral race. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that Brent Madon, 45, admitted he took voters to the courthouse to vote by absentee ballot. He says they were paid $10 to $20 for a vote. Prosecutors say of the 305 absentee ballots cast in the election, 250 were ...
