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Congratulations to Bruce Lunsford, who today won the Democratic nomination for US Senate. Bruce will be facing the truly awful Mitch McConnell in November. Let's all do what we can to help defeat Mitch this fall! (Bruce Lunsford's website: bruce2008.com)

Mitch McConnell in November. Let's all do what we can to help defeat Mitch this fall! (Bruce Lunsford's website: bruce2008.com)

has released his first TV ad, on achieving a sensible energy policy, and it's a winner: Kentucky: Mitch McConnell is up to his two most common tricks in the U.S. Senate: obstructionism and pork barrel spending. First, McConnell nearly shuts down the Senate as he tries to shortchange veterans in a truly sinister fashion. (Really, McConnell is not too far removed from a cartoon villain at this point.) Then, McConnell tries to sneak into the Farm Bill a tax break worth $60 to $70 million for racehorse

said. "It is time we step up to the plate for the good of our veterans." (Click here to listen to the entire address.) The Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act has bipartisan support. But our own Senator Mitch McConnell has been playing his obstructionist games again, putting the needs of his rich contributors before our nation's veterans. Please contact McConnell at (859) 578-0188, and tell him to support Senator Webb's bipartisan GI Bill.

into an unrelated floor debate on union rights of firefighters and police officers. Thankfully, the Senate voted 55-42 to table the Republican amendment and the Democratic bill will be attached to the Iraq bill next week. [Politico] Speaking of McConnell, he has an opponent in the Republican primary named Daniel Essek, a Whitley County truck driver who couldn’t get off work in order to attend the KET debate on Monday. He’d only spent $824 in the first month of his campaign.

at least 35 at the funeral of a Sunni school principal west of Baghdad. The bomber blew himself up in a funeral tent in the village of Abu Minasir. The funeral was for a grammar school principal who was shot and killed Tuesday.” * Senate Republicans pulled a foolish stunt on the floor today to undercut the bipartisan GI Bill expansion, and give McCain’s watered-down version a better chance. * Fortunately, the stunt failed, and McCain’s bill won’t be added to an unrelated bill giving public safety workers the