wednesday, october 15, 2014 • the lebanon enterprise • NEWS A 5 ■ POLITICS Mitch McConnell and Alison Lundergan Grimes take their talking points face to face By Sam Youngman saying that as the state’s Goodman worked hard to Lexington Herald-Leader chief elections officer, she explore whether McConnell has a duty to protect the would support keeping There were a few skir- “sanctity” of the ballot box , the health insur- mishes but little new ground and Americans’ right to a ance exchange was broken as U.S. Senate secret ballot. implemented under the fed- Minority Leader Mitch “There’s no reluctance,” eral law. McConnell and Democrat Grimes said Monday night. The senator referred to Alison Lundergan Grimes “This is a matter of prin- Kynect as a website that is delivered their well-worn ciple.” being funded by a federal attack lines to each other’s That is a change from grant, leaving the impres- faces Monday night on when Grimes told the show sion that it could continue if statewide television. Ballot Bomb, a KET pro- the law were repealed. In the only sched- gram set to air later this When Goodman asked Alison Lundergan Grimes Mitch McConnell uled televised debate of month, that she voted for if McConnell would sup- Kentucky’s U.S. Senate former Secretary of State port continuing Kynect, may: Congress didn’t pass “to help him buy his way officials said it was the election, McConnell con- in the 2008 McConnell said: “That’s what the president’s doing. back to Washington, D.C.” largest group of media at a tinued his central campaign Democratic presidential fine. Yeah, I think it’s fine We defeated it.” in a secret recording of KET debate. theme of tying Grimes to primary. to have a website.” In another familiar attack, McConnell speaking at one On Tuesday, McConnell the national Democratic Grimes said she has “dif- In May, the Washington Grimes blasted McConnell of the Koch brothers’ sum- and Grimes will head to Party and President Barack ferences with the presi- Post’s fact-checker wrote and his wife, former U.S. mits. different parts of the state Obama, while Grimes dent,” specifying that she that “it is not credible for Secretary of Labor Elaine After McConnell said to try and sell their closing assailed McConnell as hav- disagrees with Obama’s McConnell to suggest that Chao, for becoming multi- he had not said anything arguments. ing “gone Washington” and energy policy and use of the state exchange would millionaires while in office. different in private than McConnell has a series being beholden to the Koch executive orders, but she survive without the broad She also criticized Chao’s he had in public, Grimes of official events in Eastern brothers. argued that the president health-care system con- service on the boards of responded: “So you were Kentucky, where, accord- There were no obvious isn’t on the ballot. structed by the Affordable Bloomberg Philanthropies consistently against helping ing to his Senate office, he major missteps — other “It’s myself and Sen. Care Act, such as an indi- and Wells Fargo, which people here in Kentucky will “visit with Kentuckians than those they have already McConnell, and he doesn’t vidual mandate and subsi- Grimes has described as getting a living wage?” and discuss issues of impor- endured — by either candi- want to take responsibil- dies to buy insurance.” being anti-coal. Stephen Voss, a politi- tance to the commonwealth date as they debated for ity for all that’s wrong in Goodman also pushed A number of indepen- cal science professor at the and our nation.” nearly 60 minutes on KET’s Washington, D.C.,” Grimes McConnell on his retort dent fact-checkers have University of Kentucky, Grimes will hold events Kentucky Tonight program. said. that he’s “not a scientist” in found Grimes’ claim that said afterward he thought in Northern Kentucky, Grimes, Kentucky’s After Grimes referred response to questions about McConnell became “a McConnell “owned the kicking things off early secretary of state, struck to herself as a “Clinton whether he believes in cli- multi-millionaire on the debate.” Tuesday afternoon by hold- an aggressive pose as Democrat,” host Bill mate change. backs of hardworking “Grimes allowed herself ing a news conference with she repeatedly interrupt- Goodman asked her what “My job is to look out for Kentuckians” to be false, to recede too often, turn- U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, ed and lobbed attacks at the difference was between Kentucky’s coal miners,” and McConnell appeared ing the show into a lec- D-Ohio. On Wednesday McConnell, who often an Obama Democrat and a McConnell responded. eager to point that out, not- ture from McConnell to night, Grimes will cam- gave long, lecture-style Clinton Democrat, leading Grimes said deep job ing that the money was a the moderator,” Voss said. paign with former U.S. answers. He retorted on Grimes to answer “growing losses in the coal indus- result of an inheritance after “McConnell was able to Secretary of State Hillary multiple occasions that the middle class the right try have happened on Chao’s mother died. sound informed and author- Clinton in Louisville. the claims being made by way.” McConnell’s watch despite He called the claim “out- itative, even when he deliv- Also this week, both Grimes had been given McConnell responded: his repeated efforts to blame rageous” and said “I can’t ered standard Republican campaigns will release their “four Pinocchios” by the “There’s not a dime’s worth it on “this administration let that stand.” talking points that are eas- third-quarter fundraising Washington Post’s fact- of difference.” over and over again.” Grimes at one point ily rebutted because they’re numbers. checker. (The newspaper For his part, McConnell “He fails to see he has referred to wealthy con- so familiar.” Editor’s note: Reprinted gives that rating to claims held fast to his opposi- a role in all the jobs that servative donors Charles KET said it provided cre- with permission through that are “whoppers.”) tion to the federal health have been lost in our state,” and David Koch as dentials for 60 media repre- the Kentucky Press News Grimes again refused to care law, which he said Grimes said. McConnell’s “family.” sentatives, including some Service. say whether she voted for had “rimracked” Kentucky McConnell replied: Grimes said McConnell from Australia, Denmark, Obama in 2008 or 2012, hospitals, though host Bill “Secretary Grimes, if I was asking the brothers Germany and Japan. KET What’s your plan?

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