While hair-flipping, platitude chanting, Jefferson Davis monument fan K.C. Crosbie starts some crazy ads, incumbent Todd Hollenbach doesn’t strike back. That probably makes sense, especially since Crosbie won’t even carry her home town of Lexington.
What a concept. Accentuate the positive:
Tuesday, November 8, is fast approaching – and it’s time for us to Get Out The Vote! Governor Beshear and all of our Democratic candidates will be in Lexington on Sunday afternoon for a GOTV rally.
Please join us on Sunday as we give them a huge welcome
GOTV Rally
Sunday, November 6, 2011
2:30 PM
Coordinated Campaign Headquarters
1080 S. Broadway
Lexington, KY
(behind the old Atlanta Bread Company building
between Gumbo Ya Ya and Buffalo Wind Wings)
The hood being the west side of Lexington, of course. Earlier today, Kentucky State Treasurer Todd Hollenbach took it to Lexington, the home territory of his Republican opponent K.C. Crosbie, in a city-wide sweep that included Meadowthorpe Cafe and the nearby Pop’s Resale.
Prediction: Crosbie won’t even carry her own hometown, despite her hair-flipping and mud-slinging.
It really is hard to pick a scummiest in this year’s slate of statewide GOP candidates. But the top three are clearly religious bigots David Williams and Todd P’Pool. The third, of course, is Bill Johnson, who wants to deny Kentuckians the right to vote unless he thinks they’ll vote for Republicans.
From the press release:
Fayette County Democratic Party
November 3, 2011
Contact: Brenda McClanahan, Party Chair
Phone: 859-268-4448
E-mail: Chair@FayetteDemocrats.org
FAYETTE COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY WILL PROVIDE
FREE RIDES TO THE POLLS ON ELECTION DAY
Fayette County Democratic Party Chair Brenda McClanahan announced today that the party would provide a free ride to the polls next Tuesday (Election Day) to any voter, regardless of party affiliation.
“ Voting is the most important right we have as citizens,” said McClanahan. “No one regardless of his or her party, should be unable to vote due to lack of transportation.”
McClanahan urged all Fayette County voters needing transportation to call 268-4448 to schedule a free ride. On Election Day, the telephone lines will be open from 7 AM to 6 PM.
“Just call.” McClanahan said. “A volunteer will pick you up, take you to your polling place, wait while you vote, and then take you back.”
Who: Fayette County Democratic Party
What: Free rides to the polls
When:Election Day, November 8, 2011, from 7 AM until 6 PM
Phone:859-268-4448 to schedule a free ride to the polls. Volunteers will pick youup, take you to the polls, wait while you vote, and take you back to your home or other location.
Work, GOTV, phone call and turn out the vote. Maximize the advantage. Savor the news, the poll, and especially the quote, but it is NOT over, no matter what Larry Sabato says.
Senate President David Williams has gained little ground in his race against Gov. Steve Beshear, trailing the incumbent by 25 percentage points a week before the election, according to the latest Courier-Journal/WHAS11 Bluegrass Poll.
The poll, conducted by SurveyUSA last Friday through Tuesday, found Beshear with 54 percent of the vote and Williams with 29 percent. Independent Gatewood Galbraith, the third candidate in the race, remains at 9 percent, with 8 percent undecided.
Williams, the Republican nominee, has narrowed the gap only slightly since the last Bluegrass Poll, conducted by SurveyUSA in late September, which found Beshear with a 31-point lead. But he still trails by a huge margin that analysts say will be difficult, if not impossible, to overcome with just a few days remaining before next Tuesday’s election.
The Bluegrass poll has a margin of error of 4.2 percentage points, meaning that, in theory, Beshear could lead by as many as 33 points or by as few as 16.
“The race is completely over,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “It’s been a joke of a general election. … Here is a classic example of the Republicans picking the wrong person at the wrong time.”
He said Beshear could have long coattails and blamed Williams for being a bad canditate who ran a bad race.
“I’m sure (Republicans) look back with regret on the primary,” he said.
And as if Williams’ attack on an employer bringing 250 jobs to Kentucky wasn’t enough reason to ship him back to Burkesville, there’s others:
Of course, David Williams hasn’t suddenly gotten religion. But when some source has poured $4 million down the rapidly collapsing rathole that is the campaign of Republican David Williams, and you’re 8 days away from an Ezekiel-like pounding by the voters, what do you have to lose?
Never mind the fact that David Williams has personally broken nearly every one of the Ten Commandments. If you have nothing else, go with the blows that are low even by David Williams standards. Go xenophobic, go no class. Go, David Williams.
Republican gubernatorial nominee David Williams criticized Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear on Tuesday for participating in what he said was a Hindu religious ceremony last week during a “ground blessing” for a new manufacturing plant in Elizabethtown.
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“He’s there participating with Hindu priests, participating in a religious ceremony,” Williams said during a campaign stop in Shelbyville. “They can say what they want to. He’s sitting down there with his legs crossed, participating in Hindu prayers with a dot on his forehead with incense burning around him. I don’t know what the man was thinking.”
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“If I’m a Christian, I don’t participate in Jewish prayers. I’m glad they do that. I don’t participate in Hindu prayers. I don’t participate in Muslim prayers. I don’t do that,” Williams later told reporters. “To get down and get involved and participate in prayers to these polytheistic situations where you have these Hindu gods that they are praying to, doesn’t appear to me to be in line with what a governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky ought to be doing.”
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“I think you disrespect other peoples’ religion when you go down there,” he said.
He said he has visited countries that had Hindu ceremonies but declined to participate. “That would be idolatry,” he said.
Williams added that Beshear has said in his campaign ads that he is the son and grandson of Baptist ministers.
“Yet between his not being pro-life and his support for gambling and now getting down and doing Hindu prayers to these Hindu gods, I think his grandfathers wouldn’t be very pleased with Steve Beshear,” Williams said.
Williams’ stupidity and bigotry drew a swift and international condemnation:
The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) strongly condemned what it called a “blatant attack” by a Kentucky legislator against the state’s Governor, Steve Beshear (D-KY), for participating in a Hindu religious ceremony last week at an area business. Journalists began contacting the HAF office in Washington, D.C. early today and shared the full statement by Kentucky gubernatorial opponent and State Senate President David Williams (R-KY) which claimed that Gov. Beshear’s participation in a groundbreaking ceremony, or bhumi puja, to inaugurate a new manufacturing facility in Elizabethtown that is slated to bring 250 jobs, was not “in line with what a governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky ought to be doing,” and that his actions were tantamount to “idolatry.” Williams also stated that as a Christian, he would not participate in Jewish, Muslim, or Hindu prayers, and hoped Hindus would open their eyes and “receive Jesus Christ as their personal savior.”
“The words of Sen. Williams are not only an affront to Hindu Americans, but all Americans as he conjures up the lowest sentiments of exclusion and bigotry. ” said Suhag Shukla, Esq., HAF’s Managing Director and Legal Counsel. “He’s shown he’s ignorant and intolerant—two qualities that we hope Kentuckyians will reject at the polls.”
Leave aside the profoundly disturbing question of who has paid $4 million to purchase David Williams. The fact is this—if sitting cross-legged for an hour brings 250 new jobs to Kentucky, then maybe David Williams should button it, head on back to whatever casino he frequents these days, and let Governor Beshear do whatever it takes to help Kentucky get new jobs here.
David Williams had 90 minutes in tonight’s KET debate which he theoretically could have thrown a Hail Mary pass. Instead, he threw a hissy fit, defending his act as a one-man speed bump on the road to good legislation in Kentucky, whether it was raising the dropout age or expanded gaming. And the audience was repulsed. But first, the preliminaries:
Unlike Williams, Governor Steve Beshear actually stopped and spoke to people before going inside.
And inside, the winner of the Liar Liar Pants on Fire Whopper goes to Williams, for his statement “I’ve never prevented a vote on expanded gaming.”
Most encouraging statement was that Governor Beshear says he is going to propose expanded gaming in the 2012 legislature. Here’s hoping that the legislators and the voters actually get a chance to have a vote on it, and here’s hoping that in 8 days, the force of obstruction that has cost so many thousands of Kentuckians their jobs in the horse industry is soundly rejected.
