by Rachel Nix; Posted on November 24, 2009 at 12:05 AM
Kentucky's governor continues to lose ground in our exclusive SurveyUSA poll results just released Monday.
Of 600 Kentuckians surveyed, 39% said they approve of the job Steve Beshear is doing and 55% disapprove...
[...]NEWS RELEASE
November 20, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Kim Geveden
(502) 682-2010
kgeveden@drdan2010.com
Annette Lee
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Conway's Refusing to Explain Why He Invested 91% of Stock Holdings - up to $4.98 Million - in Company that Calls Investments in Clean Coal Technology "Wasting [...]
(Material courtesy of a St Xavier High School Grad's father)
Important Notice
You may have received an email from jimkingformayor.com regarding a fundraising event which APPEARED to be authorized or sent by Saint Xavier High School and/or its Alumni Association.
Neither Saint Xavier High School [...]
REGIONAL AND STATE EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT -- OCTOBER 2009(Data Released on November 20, 2009)
Regional and state unemployment rates were generally little changed or higher in October. Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia recorded over-the-month unemployment rate increases, 13 states registered rate decreases, and 8 states had no rate change, [...]
Download Reid_Subsidy_Examples_11-20 for the complete CBO analysis.
The enclosed table focuses on enrollees who purchase a “reference” plan—the second lowest cost “silver” plan, as defined in the bill—because federal subsidies would be tied to the premium for it. Such a plan would have an actuarial value of 70 percent, which represents [...]
…Fannie Mae is asking for an additional $15 billion in government aid after posting a $19.8 billion loss. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac own or guarantee almost 31 million home loans worth about $5.5 trillion, or about half of all mortgages.
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA), another government agency, is heading [...]
NKY.com blog on Kentucky Politics
Rand Paul’s official campaign site shows an entry was posted on his campaign blog…that says he believes Guantanamo Bay should be shut down – a viewpoint in direct conflict with his views today..
Within hours, the (Trey) Grayson camp issued a statement saying “Rand Paul proved today … that he [...]
NEWS RELEASE
November 19, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Kim Geveden
(502) 682-2010
kgeveden@drdan2010.com
Annette Lee
(502) 498-4008x230
aml@drdan2010.com
Conway Stands to Make Huge Profits At The Expense of Kentucky’s Coal Industry & Consumers
Conway Stonewalls Answering Why He Invested Over 90% of His Assets in [...]
…The House bill would impose a 5.4 percent surtax on individuals earning more than $500,000 a year and couples making more than $1 million. It also raises money by imposing a 2.5 percent excise tax on medical devices, by ending some tax breaks for multinational companies…and iincludes a 40% excise [...]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has assembled a compromise health package that would expand coverage to more than 31 million Americans at a cost of $849 billion over the next decade, a senior leadership aide said late Wednesday.
The cost of the package would be more than made up [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact: Kathy Groob 859-291-9001
Jennifer Moore, 502-724-3577
November 18, 2009
Emerge Kentucky, a non-profit organization established in 2009 to recruit and train Democratic women who want to run for public office, today announced that they are now accepting applications for the 2010 candidate-training program. Twenty-five women will be [...]
Democrat Kimberly Greenwell remembers when she decided to run for public office. Following a serious 2007 automobile accident, the 32-year-old advertising sales executive said the idea of giving back to the community through elective office simply came to her.
Now, some two years after deciding to try her hand at electoral [...]
Conway reported in August with the U.S. Senate clerk that he had invested between $1 million and $5 million in Kinder-Morgan Energy in 2008, Mongiardo’s campaign (spokesperson Kim Geveden said)
Geveden also repeated earlier comments that Conway needs to explain why he has more than 90 percent of his wealth invested [...]
NEWS RELEASE
November 17, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Kim Geveden
(502) 682-2010
kgeveden@drdan2010.com
Annette Lee
(502) 498-4008x230
aml@drdan2010.com
Conway Invests in the Millions on Texas Energy Products over Kentucky Coal Workers
"Jack Conway's apparent failure to report the Kinder-Morgan stock and the fact he owns millions in a Texas company that [...]
Senator McConnell should accomplish three things vis-a-vis the New York fundraiser cited below. He shows support for two moderate Republicans in key primaries. He also gives Cathy Bailey(R-KY) a clear negative message about running for U.S. Senate. I doubt that Ms. Bailey, a former U.S. Ambassador and Republican National Committeewoman, would run for [...]
For dates and locations Download Energy Management Workshops
(opportunities from now until December 14)
Neighborhood & Community Leaders
Attached is a list of FREE Energy Management Workshops offered by Project Warm. Attendees will receive weatherization materials for their homes along with “how to” training.
Please forward to all interested parties.
To Register:
Call the phone [...]
November 16, 2009
Media Contacts
Trey Pollard (Yarmuth) 202-225-5401
Jack Bergwerk (SCORE) 502-425-9587
( Louisville , KY ) Today, the Louisville chapter of SCORE announced it awarded an honorary membership to Congressman John Yarmuth (KY-3) in recognition of his work to help strengthen and develop small businesses in Louisville .
“John Yarmuth has [...]
From the Office of Kentucky Attorney General, Jack Conway
Attorney General Jack Conway, along with the attorneys general of 31 other states, today announced an agreement with Vonage, one of the nation’s largest providers of an Internet-based phone service known as “Voice Over Internet Protocol” (VOIP). The agreement requires Vonage to [...]
The prevalence of food insecurity was up from 11.1 percent (13 million households) in 2007 and was the highest observed since nationally representative food security surveys were initiated in 1995. About one-third of these households (6.7 million households, or 5.7 percent of all U.S. households) had very low food security, [...]
Washington Post, November 16, 2009
Women in their 40s should stop routinely getting annual mammograms, and older women should cut back to one scheduled exam every other year, an influential federal task force has concluded, challenging the use of one of the most common medical tests.
In its first reevaluation [...]Washington Post, November 16, 2009
Women in their 40s should stop routinely getting annual mammograms, and older women should cut back to one scheduled exam every other year, an influential federal task force has concluded, challenging the use of one of the most common medical tests.
In its first reevaluation [...]From the Courier-Journal
In an interview with WHAS-TV earlier this week, …Rand Paul declined to say if he would support McConnell for another term as Senate GOP leader if he is challenged by Sen. Jim DeMint, R-South Carolina
“I like both of them…(Rand Paul said in the interview), but I think [...]
The best way to honor those who have given their lives in service to the U.S. is to make this country the best it can be.
That was how Kentucky Lt. Gov. Dr. Daniel Mongiardo opened his speech Wednesday during the monthly luncheon for the Southern [...]
On Saturday, November 7, 2009, the House passed H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, to much celebration by the Democratic party. Healthcare-NOW!'s view, however, is that the House bill is a gift to the insurance industry at the further expense of the people of this nation.
The bill's [...]
White House Counsel Gregory B. Craig is expected to announce his departure as early as Friday, people familiar with the situation said, ending an embattled tenure in which he struggled to lead the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
To Read More:Click Washington Post
[...]NEWS RELEASE
November 12, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Kim Geveden, (502) 682-2010
kgeveden@drdan2010.com
Annette Lee, (502) 498-4008 x230
aml@drdan2010.com
Conway To Profit If Cap and Trade Passes, While KY Families Lose Jobs and Pay Higher Electric Bills
FRANKFORT---As reported in Monday’s Courier-Journal, according to his Senate personal financial [...]
(AP) President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing instead for revisions to clarify how and when U.S. troops would turn over responsibility to the Afghan government, a senior administration official said Wednesday.
That stance [...]
(Health-care reform)Bills in both the Senate and the House of Representatives would make more people eligible for Medicaid, the health insurance program for the poor that states administer with reimbursements from the federal government.
At the same time, any bill that makes it to President [...]
Congress is unlikely, this year or next, to establish the “cap and trade” system for curbing carbon emissions that Mr. Obama and party leaders seek. Nor are world leaders at a climate conference in Copenhagen next month likely to strike [...]
From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
States face a serious fiscal problem that could force them to institute additional deep budget cuts and tax increases in 2010. The federal assistance that states received for their Medicaid programs is scheduled to end on December 31, 2010, and the assistance states [...]
Findings of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Sixteen states taxed working-poor families deeper into poverty last year, according to a new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Income tax bills on poor families in those 16 states ranged from a few dollars to several hundred dollars, [...]
FromLEO
River Fields and the National Trust for Historic Preservation had filed a federal lawsuit that could ultimately jeopardize the Ohio River Bridges Project (ORBP), an approved plan to build new eastern and downtown spans…
River Fields battles a bi-state coalition of government, industry and labor groups that support the [...]
For Immediate Release: Contact: Brandy Bailey
November 9, 2009 brandy@novemberstrategies.com
513-290-2797
Louisville, KY– Kimberly Greenwell, candidate for state representative in the 33rd House District, just received the endorsement of Teamsters Local Union No. 783. Local 783 represents over 4,500 working men and women in the Louisville area.
“I am honored [...]
by Marcia Angell, M.D.
distributed by Huffington Post and Common Dreams
(Marcia Angell, M. D., is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.)
The House health reform bill finally passed after one of Congress's longer, less enlightening debates. Two stalwarts of the single-payer movement split their votes; John [...]
An overwhelming majority of the Democratic lawmakers who opposed the bill — 31 of the 39 — represent rural districts that were won by Senator John McCain in the 2008 presidential election, and a third of them were freshmen. Nearly all of the fourteen freshmen Democrats who voted “no” represent [...]
Information from the Washington Post, January 9, 2009
Reps. Baron P. Hill(Ind.), Dan Maffei (N.Y), and Tom Perriello(VA) are Democratic Congressmen from predominantly rural districts. All three voted yes after concessions from the House Leadership.
For Hill the decision came down to a last-minute compromise that paved the way for [...]
WASHINGTON – The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate.
The government health insurance plan included in the House bill is unacceptable [...]
From the Washington Independent
Nine months ago, Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill were all celebration as they hailed the renewal of the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program. Last week, they called for CHIP’s demise.
The $894 billion, 1,990-page health reform bill unveiled by House Democrats last Thursday would repeal [...]
by Lucida Marshall, Feminist Peace Network
Women’s reproductive rights were severely compromised to appease 41 members of Congress. The final vote on the health care bill was 220-215, so only a few of those votes were needed in the first place to secure the vote. For this, in the 11th hour, [...]
Washington — In the 10 minutes it took for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to outline his proposal for including a public option in the health care bill, the Nevadan went from being the political left’s punching bag for failing to lead on perhaps the biggest issue of his [...]
From Congressman Dennis Kucinich's Website
November 7, 2009
Congressman Dennis Kucinich after voting against H.R. 3962 addresses why he voted NO, stating:
"We have been led to believe that we must make our health care choices only within the current structure of a predatory, for-profit insurance system which makes money not [...]
On Thursday, Physicians for a National Health Program, in an e-mail message to its members, endorsed the view that "no bill is better than a bad bill."
"Even the public option in the House is a sham," the group said on Thursday.
PNHP's John Geyman called on the House to shelve [...]
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says this bill is a big victory for working families:
"...It is time to say “yes” to a more secure future for Americans—and that is how the majority in the House of Representatives answered. It is time to say “yes” to lowering health costs, breaking the stranglehold [...]
Congressman Yarmuth will attend the League of Women Voters meeting on Monday (November 9th) night to discuss Health Care Reform and answer questions. Feel free to invite anyone you know who is interested in this issue to this meeting.
The meeting is at 6:00 PM at the League's building, 115 South Ewing, [...]
