Austin Horn
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Kentucky politics @heraldleader. Email me: [email protected]
Big moment for Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton, who now gets to appoint a member to fill Gray's vacancy on the 15-member board. kentucky.com/news/local/cou…
Racer Arena. Murray, KY. Home of the Racers’ basketball team from 1954-1998. Still used today for the volleyball team. Murray State did host an exhibition game there in 2023 with throwback jerseys 🔥
A new chapter in Trump-McConnell, the same chapter in Scott Jennings' flirtation with the open US Senate seat, a head-turning financial report & more. kentucky.com/news/politics-…
Massie on Epstein files: "I suspect (Trump's) got some powerful friends who are in these files & I suspect that if the true nature of Epstein’s connections were known, that it could be embarrassing to some of our allies." kentucky.com/news/politics-…
For no real reason, revisiting today the video set in 2056 wherein former GOP KY gov candidate Eric Deters narrates the hypothetical deaths of his opponents. "Ryan Quarles: tragic hay baling accident at a gubernatorial governor shoot... baled 'im all up." youtu.be/swhTPBGHPNU?t=…
First Vanity Fair, then the New Yorker podcast, now Vogue. Another national mag take on Beshear. Some good quotes here from sources like John Kasich and (the very underrated) Maurice Manning. vogue.com/article/andy-b…
Zach Dembo's Democratic #KY06 campaign announces it's raised more than $160k in 3 days. Undeniably solid start, even with the acknowledgement that candidates often line up the $$ well before entering the race.

The future is now. kentucky.com/lexgoeat/bourb…
There’s a future where the random sons of Central KY aristocrats can no longer rake in like $50M by launching some novelty bourbon called Uncle Rabbit’s Moon Gravy that they claim ‘shakes up the bourbon space.’ But no, I think the industry as a whole won’t ‘pop.’
Aaaaand, we have a post from the Bluegrass Airport (behind security) on a "Welcome to KY" basket for Alvarado.
GOP Rep. Deanna Gordon, who's running for Andy Barr's #KY06 seat, sent out this mass text tonight. "We don't need someone parachuting in." Feels like a reference to former Sen. Ralph Alvarado, who left his post as TN health commissioner & is considering a run.
Didn't know before going through the archives to write this story that Alvarado ran for office in 2004, 2006 & 2010 before gaining office (and becoming a pretty big deal in KY) in 2014. If at first you don't succeed, etc., etc. kentucky.com/news/politics-…
ALSO new: Ralph Alvarado, fmr state senator & Matt Bevin running mate, is IN for #KY06, the seat being left open by Rep. Andy Barr. Only the second truly open congressional seat Kentucky's had since 2012. kentucky.com/news/politics-…
New: a Lexington attorney with a public service history that includes the military & Beshear's office is now the third Democrat running for Kentucky's 6th Congressional District. Dems think they've got a shot with the departure of longtime Rep. Andy Barr. kentucky.com/news/politics-…
GOP Rep. Deanna Gordon, who's running for Andy Barr's #KY06 seat, sent out this mass text tonight. "We don't need someone parachuting in." Feels like a reference to former Sen. Ralph Alvarado, who left his post as TN health commissioner & is considering a run.

Fancy Farm political chair Steven Elder confirms Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman and Democratic US Senate candidate Pam Stevenson are not speaking on stage at Fancy Farm. Doesn't seem psyched that Dems are balking. We're still waiting to hear back on Beshear's plans, though.

KY Sen. Mitch McConnell is one of several GOP senators who signed a letter to OMB Director Russell Vought, asking for the release of Congressionally-approved education formula funds. “Withholding these funds will harm students, families, and local economies.” @SpectrumNewsDC
The decision to withhold this funding is directly contrary to President Trump’s goal of returning K-12 education to the states. This funding goes directly to states and local school districts, where local leaders decide how this funding is spent, because as we know, local…
Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie is leading a push to release the Jeffrey Epstein files via discharge petition. The state's lone Democrat in Congress, Morgan McGarvey, agrees. Fellow GOP Rep. Andy Barr doesn't. kentucky.com/news/politics-…
Greater Cincinnati is seeing the second-fastest rent growth in the U.S., with annualized rents up 3.5% at a time when rents nationwide are flat or falling.
Cash on hand rankings in #kysen race so far. GOP Barr: $6.1M Cameron: $532K Dems Stevenson: $49K More on those numbers and what they mean here. kentucky.com/news/politics-…
Rep. Cherlynn Stevenson with a fundraising lead for Dems in the 6th, Massie raising big $, and Dotson mostly buoyed by a $60k self-loan. Some takeaways from the Congressional finance reports that have dropped. kentucky.com/news/politics-…