October 24, 2008
Bowling Green, Kentucky
Right here in red state Kentucky folks were standing in the cold rain waiting to get in the Bowling Green airport to hear and see former President Bill Clinton stump for US senatorial candidate Bruce Lunsford and Kentucky’s 2nd district congressional candidate David Boswell .
I feel Kentuckians are ready for change and I base this feeling on what I’m seeing and I’m seeing it all over Kentucky. Hell Western Kentucky is one of the most conservative places on earth , a Mitch McConnell strong hold and folks there Thursday October 23, 2008 were chanting "Ditch Mitch " at the Kentucky Dam Village Convention Center McConnell/Lunsford debate site. This sort of thing would not have occurred a year ago. I’m tellin’ ya Mitch is in real trouble.
Videos of the event are below. I also managed to get a few photos. Click here to view photos.
October 23, 2008
Kentucky Dam Village Convention Center:
As we all know this is the last debate Senator Mitch McConnell agreed to have. After this debate there will be no more because Mitch McConnell has turned down all of the others , including the KET offer that would have been televised for the whole state to see. Once again Senator Mitch McConnell picked a time and venue that made it difficult for his constituents to see him in action. This was an early morning debate and live streamed via the web. Surely Mitch understands that most folks are working this time of day and wouldn’t be able to see him tell us how good things are and surely he knows that it takes high speed internet service to watch live streaming video, but I guess Mitch felt this was the patriotic thing to do.
Plenty of folks were outside the convention center to greet Mitch (snark), but they never got a glimpse of Mitch. Some say he slipped in the back door and others say he waited in a local gasoline station until the protestors left before he went into the Convention Center. Hell who knows, but I do know this Bruce Lunsford walked in the front door of the Convention Center like a man on a mission. Bruce didn’t dodge anyone.
It was a real sight to behold. Right there in Western Kentucky Mitch McConnell’s stronghold and folks were chanting Ditch Mitch and 24 years is enough. I suggest to you these folks are the real patriots and I’ll bet the ones there that served in the military would be more than happy to show you their military honorable discharge papers. How about that Mitch? When will you show us yours?
Click here and here to view photos. Special thanks to Mike Watt for the photos.
Mike Watt photos of the Ruby Laffoon event, here and here.
Crystal Chappell photos of the Ruby Laffoon event, here.
The video play list below is video of the following: Dale Emmons speaking for Bruce Lunsford, who couldn’t make it to the event. The 4 senatorial candidates were Michael Cassaro, Greg Fischer, James E. Rice and Kenneth Stepp. Heather Ryan 1st District Congressional candidate.
Jerry Lundergan introducing Hillary Clinton.
From time to time you will notice a shake in the video, this is caused by folks moving on the riser where the video was being shot.
To view the video you want to see on the play list below, click the menu button and select the video you want.
A few of the many photos I shot in Kentucky and Illinois during 2007. Three of the photos at Mitch McConnell’s house are not mine and I can’t give proper credit for them because I can’t remember who emailed them to me. I shot the rest of them, even the ones of Chris Matthews.
Saturday’s Courier-Journal offered a great preview to the goings-on at Fancy Farm.
Commenter kilowat1946 was kind enough to offer a brief report for those of us who couldn’t make it:
it was hot
Republicans were outnumbered ~20 to 1
Reception to Sen. Mitch McConnell included lots of booing Attorney General Greg Stumbo did, indeed, have the bloodhounds
He also left a link to photos of the event, which can be found here. Thanks for sharing these!
This afternoon, a group of Lexington patriots came out to Triangle Park to voice their disapproval of Bush’s escalation of the Iraq War, and those who enable them (that’s you Mitch). There were even a few Iraq veterans there to show their support for the protest.
The group that organized the protest was the Kentucky wing of Iraq Summer. Iraq Summer is an organization stemming from Americans Against Escalation in Iraq, and its mission is to put pressure on those in Congress who continue to enable George W. Bush and his failed Iraq policy. With September being the big month that Petraeus’s report comes out and Congress will debate Iraq funding, Iraq Summer knows that this summer is immensely important in terms of grabbing a hold of these Congressmen and showing them the light: that our Iraq policy has to change. The American public is already there, but we need to grab more Senators and Representatives if we’re going to force Bush’s hand. Some local Kentucky veterans of the Iraq War are lending their time to the effort.
I grabbed a copy of one of their press releases and even a letter that they hand delivered to Mitch McConnell’s office (which is quite zesty). Below is the full text of both.
Since the theaters in Elizabethtown, Kentucky didn’t see fit to show the movie “SiCKO”, I went to Louisville, Kentucky to see what was so bad about the movie and all I found was enthusiasm. Click here to view photos.If you see a picture you like, right click it and save the photo to your desktop. The photos are for personal use only.
