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Gov. Andy Beshear’s super PAC raised almost $2.6 million in first year, won some, lost some

February 11, 2025February 10, 20250

By Tom Loftus Kentucky Lantern FRANKFORT – Tapping his broad base of Kentucky donors and landing three hefty contributions from…

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KY state workers group blasts pension settlement with hedge funds, presses its own lawsuit

January 27, 2025January 26, 20250

By Tom Loftus Kentucky Lantern FRANKFORT — The recent proposed settlement of a long-running lawsuit against big hedge funds over…

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Spending to lobby Kentucky lawmakers hits a new record of more than $24 million in 2024

January 19, 2025January 18, 20251

By Tom Loftus Kentucky Lantern FRANKFORT – Health industry groups, business organizations and electric utilities helped drive spending on lobbying…

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Not total déjà vu, but Kentuckians can expect another income tax cut with incoming GOP supermajorities

January 7, 2025January 6, 20250

By Tom Loftus Kentucky Lantern Republican supermajorities in the Kentucky General Assembly are expected to begin the 2025 legislative session…

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Presidential ambitions? Andy Beshear creates New Hampshire political action committee to support candidate

December 9, 2024December 8, 20240

By Tom Loftus Kentucky Lantern Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear created a political committee in New Hampshire this fall funded with…

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Follow the money: McConnell’s fundraising lowest in years, Beshear’s PAC?, Hal Rogers PAC spending

October 27, 2024October 26, 20240

By Tom Loftus Kentucky Lantern U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell’s reelection committee raised just $76,000 between July 1 and Sept. 30…

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KY Republican Headquarters building fund tops $3.2 million, most from corporations with lobbying interests

July 8, 2024July 7, 20240

By Tom Loftus Kentucky Lantern The Republican Party of Kentucky Building Fund raised another $314,750 in the past three months…

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Two out-of-state billionaires bankrolled super PACs that spent $10m trying to defeat Beshear

February 4, 2024February 3, 20240

By Tom Loftus Kentucky Lantern Two billionaire mega-donors bankrolled a quartet of super PACs that spent nearly $10 million over…

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Op-Ed – Al Cross: The tradition continues — fanciful, pointed Christmas presents for Kentucky politicians

December 21, 2023December 20, 20230

The notion of giving fanciful but pointed presents to public figures at Christmastime is an old one, established in Kentucky…

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Kentucky Democratic Party far outraised its Republican rival in month before Beshear’s reelection

November 24, 2023November 23, 20230

The aggressive fundraising drive by the Kentucky Democratic Party in support of Gov. Andy Beshear’s reelection did not take its…

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Who’s paying for all those ads in the Kentucky governor’s race? — what the records show

November 5, 2023November 4, 20230

By Tom Loftus Kentucky Lantern About $65 million will be spent in Kentucky’s 2023 general election for governor by the…

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Last financial disclosure reports before the election show Beshear far outraises Cameron

October 31, 2023October 30, 20230

By Tom Loftus Kentucky Lantern The final campaign finance reports filed before Election Day show Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s general…

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Beshear far outraises Cameron in governor’s race, but that’s only part of the money story

September 14, 2023September 14, 20230

By Tom Loftus Kentucky Lantern Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s campaign outraised Republican challenger Daniel Cameron by more than double the…

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Democrats have big fundraising lead in gubernatorial election year; Republicans say it won’t last

February 6, 2023February 5, 20230

By Tom Loftus Kentucky Lantern Just as Democrat Andy Beshear has built a big fundraising lead over his Republican rivals…

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Record $24-plus million spent on lobbying the Kentucky General Assembly in 2022

January 21, 2023January 20, 20230

By Tom Loftus Kentucky Lantern A record amount of nearly $24.2 million was spent lobbying the Kentucky General Assembly in…

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New Republican headquarters gets big donations; Democrats’ building fund donations smaller

January 12, 2023January 11, 20230

By Tom Loftus The Kentucky Lantern Charter Communications, the St. Louis-based telecommunications company, contributed $50,000 in late 2022 to the…

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Republicans poised to cut Kentucky income tax again based on revenue boom that could be fleeting

December 1, 2022November 30, 20220

By Tom Loftus Kentucky Lantern Kentucky House Majority Leader Steven Rudy recently told a receptive audience at a Kentucky Chamber…

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Bill Straub: Where oh where have all the statesmen gone, and look what’s left? Then there’s Tom Loftus

October 10, 2019October 9, 20191

Some years back, Kentucky had a gentleman serving in the Senate named John Sherman Cooper, from Pulaski County, who regularly…

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Bill Straub: Opining on greatest of journalism as it once was (or wasn’t), why it’s better than alternative

July 13, 2017July 12, 20171

The late Jimmy Breslin, the greatest columnist in the history of the world (and my personal journalistic hero), was renowned…

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Bill Straub: Bevin’s attempts to circumvent state’s media scutiny just another way of saying ‘trust me’

June 1, 2017May 31, 20170

WASHINGTON – Oh, such a clever boy is Mad Matt Bevin. Cicadas, Peeping Tom, a strange and meandering 15-minute word…

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Bill Straub: Bevin stiff-arming state’s media does disservice to public and pursuit of accountability

April 27, 2017April 26, 20171

WASHINGTON – Ben Bradlee, who would go on to become the legendary editor of The Washington Post, once wrote a…

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Bill Straub: If Bevin truly is a man of integrity, then it’s well past time that he shows some

April 20, 2017April 19, 20171

WASHINGTON – There is some evidence that the glorious leader, Gov. Mad Matt Bevin, may have stepped in it this…

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