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kentuck

(111,079 posts) Mon Jun 2, 2014, 10:53 AM Jun 2014

McConnell attempts to put Alison Grimes on the defensive with new power plant rules

Could this make the difference in the US Senate?
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http://www.kentucky.com/2014/06/01/3270608/with-release-of-power-plant-rules.html?sp=/99/322/&ihp=1

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It was almost subliminal. About halfway through the primary election's most widely run ad about coal from U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the camera settles on the T-shirt of a faceless McConnell supporter.

The shirt features President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and, between them though she is not mentioned in the ad, Democratic Senate nominee Alison Lundergan Grimes.

Above the three Democrats is a quote attributed to Reid: "Coal makes us sick." A citation describes Reid as majority leader and "chief Grimes recruiter." The ad closes with a conversation between McConnell and a supporter. "We're gonna fight back in this war on coal," McConnell says. "Damn right."

The fight over coal — already at the heart of the senate battle between McConnell and Grimes — is about to hit a pitched new phase Monday when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency releases its new draft regulations on emissions from the nation's coal-fired power plants.

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McConnell attempts to put Alison Grimes on the defensive with new power plant rules (Original Post) kentuck Jun 2014 OP

Grimes has set herself up as a lover of coal also, so the ads are to tie her to the hated Fred Sanders Jun 2014 #1

Fred Sanders

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1. Grimes has set herself up as a lover of coal also, so the ads are to tie her to the hated

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Mon Jun 2, 2014, 11:17 AM

Jun 2014

Obama who wants to kill Kentucky children by keeping their air clean, or something.....

And no coordination between secret corporate and billionaire secret money, no sir. And union money, that is flooding in also isn't it?

"The McConnell campaign ran its coal ad to the tune of a six-figure buy. McConnell's outside money allies — Kentuckians for Strong Leadership and the Kentucky Opportunity Coalition — spent more than $2.5 million on ads focusing just on coal.

Beginning Tuesday, Kentuckians for Strong Leadership will again run a radio ad around the state titled "Soldiers," which is among the most direct in tying Grimes to Reid and Obama, saying Grimes is raising "big bucks" with Reid and supported Obama as a delegate to the Democratic convention. "Grimes was a Barack Obama delegate, supporting him even after he declared war on our coal communities," the narrator says in the ad."

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