October 8, 2003
4 FOR 4?:
Kentucky (Dotty Lynch, Douglas Kiker, Steve Chaggaris and Clothilde Ewing, 10/08/03, CBS News)
On the eve of a Thursday fund-raising visit by President Bush for Republican gubernatorial candidate Ernie Fletcher, there’s a big fight brewing in the Bluegrass State over an ad the Republican Governors Association is running criticizing the Democratic candidate, Attorney General Ben Chandler.Chandler’s campaign has been pressing Kentucky televisions stations to stop running the ad, which it says is inaccurate. The RGA, however, is sticking by the ad and says it has no plans to cut short its scheduled one-week run.
The ad takes shots at Chandler’s health care plan and alleges that Chandler was responsible for $2.5 million Kentucky lost in the stock market in recent years. It also questions Chandler’s role in a $42 million settlement with an insurance company that was put into a foundation for Kentucky’s health care needs. [...]
The latest Louisville Courier-Journal poll showed Chandler and Fletcher in a dead heat, with Fletcher at 44 percent and Chandler at 43 percent.
CA could be just the start of a very bad Fall for the Democrats as MS, LA and KY loom. Posted by Orrin Judd at October 8, 2003 2:41 PM
$2.5 million? My, my.
Posted by: Harry Eagar at October 8, 2003 10:30 PMI was just wanted to ask if you had a very Merry Christmas / Holiday, and to wish you the very best for the New Year.
BTW, In saw something on another blog site I think it is a good idea to let as many people / bloggers know about. I was just organizing my vacation for later this year and stumbled across the above web site about Bali, where I was considering going. But just read what it says there and especially between the lines; unreal. A travel agent there Bali Discovery Tours of Sanur went to their friend the police chief and made trouble for someone visiting the island who had caught this travel agent offering unauthorized room rates on the Internet for the Hotel Santika Beach in Kuta, which is where I was going to stay, but thank God I am not now (I am not even going to Bali becuase of this) - seems to me like the hotel did not exactly help!
The poor guy was detained by the police for 4 days and had his passport illegally seized. He was not released until the British Embassy filed a formal complaint. Of course, there were no charges!! This is absolutely terrible. Please, please, please, join me in saying "Stuff Bali - I'm going somewhere where they treat people like guests, not enemies".