Kentucky: Mongiardo

What Jake says:
Dear Virginia Woodward and Eleanor Jordan:

Care to tell Kentucky why you - pro-choice leaders - are ardently supporting anti-choicer and hypocrite Daniel Mongiardo? Is it because you’re sell-outs or because you just had no idea he was anti-everything you stand for?

And to one of Mongiardo’s field consultants - prominent uber-liberal activist and Democratic operative: Why is it you support an anti-choice/anti-woman candidate by accepting a paycheck from him?
Excellent questions, I must say.

Good questions for "Women for Mongiardo" "State Committee" members Patsy Blevins, Milly Diehl, Ann Ellerkamp, Dr. Susan Turner, Alayne White, Diane Hancock and Sue Orth, too. From the

Apparently, Jim Newberry's first announcement that he is running for re-election as Lexington Mayor wasn't enough, as his special friends decided to throw a party for him in the posh Thoroughbred Room at the Civic Center last night.

My first thought as I walked into the room was that I was the only dude that wasn't wearing a suit and didn't have white hair. This is Jim's crowd.

And what a crowd it was! Particularly since the smallish room was 2/3 empty:

Schankula got there a little earlier, and was met by Newberry's right hand Shaye Rabold. Shaye said that she saw Schankula and I on the FB event list, and asked if we were going to "heckle" him.

Some crosstab madness from the SUSA polling goodness yesterday:

First, on the Republican primary side

Rand Paul- 35
Trey Grayson- 32
Other/Undecided- 33

Gender-wise, Paul leads 40-32 among Male Liberty Patriots, Grayson leads 33-29 among females.

Among young voters, Paul had a crazy-high advantage in the last SUSA poll, but now trails 43-40. Odd.

Among conservatives (69% of respondents), Paul leads 39-31, but is losing huge among moderates. This falls more in line with what I think will happen (the last SUSA was the opposite, if I recall correctly), as Rand Paul is much much much more conservative (both economically and socially) than Trey Grayson.

Regionally, Grayson takes Western KY and Louisville, while Paul takes Eastern, Central and Northern KY.

So, a little update on Jake's earlier post about Mongiardo today.

As he said, Mongiardo issued a press release to everyone in Kentucky announcing that he would speak about healthcare reform in London and Lexington today. However, they kicked out a Conway staffer at the London event, saying that it was a private event, even though they issued press releases and used state resources to put this out.

Well, I decided to attend the Lexington event, as I recieved the press release too and am a member of the dirty librul blogger press.

As soon as I stuck my head in the door, a Mongiardo campaign staffer saw me and whispered to a woman named Angela Underwood.