Kentucky attorney general and gubernatorial candidate Andy Beshear got two sexual abuse lawsuits filed against the Boy Scouts of America tossed while working as a lawyer in the firm of Stites & Harbison less than a decade ago.
Kentucky became the latest state to adopt a permitless gun-carry system when Republican governor Matt Bevin signed Senate Bill 150 into law on Monday.
Labor unions were dealt another blow in Kentucky after the state supreme court upheld its right to work law.
Incumbent Republican Congressman Andy Barr secured re-election in Kentucky’s 6th Congressional District on Tuesday, undercutting Democratic hopes of flipping the seat and enlarging their coming majority in the House of Representatives.
Colin Allred and Amy McGrath—the Democratic nominees for Texas’ 32nd and Kentucky’s 6th congressional districts, respectively—both recently attended fundraisers at the home of motivational speaker Laura Gassner Otting, who has said the United States is a racist country and written “F**k the Bible voters” on Facebook.
Prominent and powerful Kentucky Democrat Jerry Lundergan was indicted Friday for making a series of illegal campaign contributions to his daughter’s campaign.
