U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D - Del) speaks for Lois Combs Weinberg Campaign in Kentucky

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groovedaddy (131 posts) Aug-17-02, 11:57 PM (ET) U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D - Del) speaks for Lois Combs Weinberg Campaign in Kentucky Senator Tom Carper (D-Del) spoke at a fund raising event tonight for Lois Combs Weinberg, the Democrat who is attempting to unseat Mitch McConnell. Carper was introduced by Jim Gray, who lost out in a close primary race for mayor in Lexington, Kentucky in May (the race is non-partisan). Gray remarked that someone told him "if you want to win, you've got to have the most money...and I'm living proof that this isn't true!" Someone in the audience yelled out: "Yeah, and Mitch McConnell is going to find out the same thing in November!" to applause from the crowd. Senator Carper was in Kentucky to visit his mother, whose birthday is Sunday, as well as his sister, who also lives in Kentucky. Carper said that the best thing he could think of about Lois Combs Weinberg is that she isn't Mitch McConnell. He also did an informal poll amoung the audience before hand, asking people how they would describe Lois. "Honest, genuine and hardworking came up." Carper also mentioned meeting Lois last year at an event and how impressed with her he had been. He said that one person can make a difference, pointing out Jim Jeffords (I-VT), who switched parties throwing the Senate to the Democrats. Carper said:"Me and a few other Democrats make sure that his grass is cut, his car washed, and after this recess, I'm going to have his laundry done!" He then mentioned specific, important committees in the Senate, the Democrats who chaired them and the Republicans who would have chaired had Jeffords stayed in the GOP. The illustration was striking. Someone yelled out: "And Ralph Nader says there's no difference between Democrats and Republicans!" More hooting and hollering. Then it was Lois's turn. Her message is simple: "Mitch for the rich. Lois for every one!" She pointed out McConnell's dismal record on funding education. Lois has a proven track record of working to improve education. She pointed out McConnells corporate ties, how much money he had gotten from pharmaceutical firms and how this played out in the recent attempts to pass a seniors prescription bill. Lois then called up former Democratic Governor, Ned Breathitt, who offered words of encouragement. Then Senator Carper chimed in these words of support: "I defeated Republican Bill Roth, who had been in the Senate for 30 years." (in the 2000 election). Carper, however, did have the advantage of having been a U.S. Rep, as well as Governor in Delaware. Lois has not held public office. Lois's campaign remains upbeat, with hopes that the corporate corruption backlash will be strong enough to carry her past McConnell in November. Hopefully her hard work will pay off. Posted by F. Alan McKaig, Lexington, Kentucky   Alert Edit | Reply | Top

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Subject     Author     Message Date     ID    Be sure to support alfredo Aug-18-02 1    Scott Crosby & the Repubs have blatantly killed "Non-Partisanship" groovedaddy 08/18/2002 4  Why haven't KY Democrats been able to get their act together jiacinto Aug-18-02 2    Good question...We'll see in November groovedaddy 08/18/2002 3        I suppose jiacinto 08/18/2002 5        Not this November jarab 08/18/2002 6

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alfredo (209 posts) Aug-18-02, 00:34 AM (ET) 1. Be sure to support Teresa Isaac This fall. She needs our help angainst the big money Republican. We also need to see if the $200,000 from the Republicans violated the city charter. If it has, we need to put pressure on him to withdraw. BTW, Teresa lives around the corner from me. Good lady. do you know her web site? Google doesn't help The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to the point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group or any controlling private power." --President Franklin D. Roosevelt But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. from the Declaration Of Independence. There is a limit to our patience.   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Top

groovedaddy (131 posts) Aug-18-02, 01:12 AM (ET) Reply to post #1 4. Scott Crosby & the Repubs have blatantly killed "Non-Partisanship" But I think Teresa will beat him hands down...The Water company issue could weigh in big in this election. Crosby is starting to back peddle now, maybe sensing that the public wants to buy the water utility instead of it going German. This issue should play into the FCUG council races too...some clear choices here. Go with the ones who are for purchasing the Water company.   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Top

jiacinto (7195 posts) Aug-18-02, 00:55 AM (ET) 2. Why haven't KY Democrats been able to get their act together McConnell's margins have never been stellar. In 1984 he narrowly won, only because of Reagan's landslide. In 1990 he only won with 52%. In 1996 he won with 56%. It is clear that McConnell has never won by overriding margins. So why can't the right opponent come their way?   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Top

groovedaddy (131 posts) Aug-18-02, 01:09 AM (ET) Reply to post #2 3. Good question...We'll see in November Kentucky is a strange state in many ways - dichotomies and contradictions...a state that routinely elects Democratic governors and goes Republican in Presidential races. There has been a "Democratic Machine" here, and, in my opinion, alot of the Republican vote has been against the "machine."   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Top

jiacinto (7195 posts) Aug-18-02, 01:16 AM (ET) Reply to post #3 5. I suppose But Clinton prevailed there twice, although Gore lost badly.   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Top

jarab (151 posts) Aug-18-02, 05:31 AM (ET) Reply to post #3 6. Not this November We know too well what happened in the recent primary with Weinberg. We need a candidate - and don't have one. Lois Weinberg will garner 20% of the vote. Lois "Combs" Weinberg will get 20%. McConnell gets the remainder. And that's being generous. We had better expend our energies on the mayoral contest. To hell with all the false hope. Kentucky Dems have no one to beat a low-life Mitch. And, how sad that is. ...O...   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Top

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