Alex Acquisto
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Politics & health reporter, @heraldleader. H-L Guild prez. Past: @bangordailynews, @the_forecaster. @report4america, @SaltInstitute, @WKU alum | she/her
Kentucky
Joined December 2014
Democrats largely a no-show at Fancy Farm. Voters say it harms their message.
kentucky.com
Republicans mocked the Kentucky Democratic Party’s absence at Fancy Farm this year. Some Democratic voters saw their absence as a warranted target.
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Kicking off the slate of speakers with a remixed version of Madonna’s “Like a Prayer”
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RT @ryanhermens: Today is the 145th annual St. Jerome Fancy Farm Picnic in Graves County, Kentucky. @heraldleader @BGPolitics
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145th Fancy Farm slate of speakers, which includes U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell
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RT @_AustinHorn: Very long standing O for Sen. Mitch McConnell here in Graves County. This is his 30th Fancy Farm and says it’s “not my las….
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Mark Wilson, co-chair of the Fancy Farm Picnic’s political committee, explains what’s included in the $17 home-cooked meals: “It’s like going to Cracker Barrel x 2 x 10 on steroids.”
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RT @_AustinHorn: KY Supreme Court Justice Shea Nickell kicked off the Marshall County GOP “Night Before Fancy Farm” event leading a renditi….
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Lt Gov Jacqueline Coleman at the Marshall Co Dems bean dinner said she’s not speaking tomorrow @ Fancy Farm, partly bc there will be so many jokes & there isn’t much to joke about lately. But there are “races in 2027 that might bring me back to the Fancy Farm stage.”
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NEW: Kim Davis, the former Rowan Co Clerk who denied marriage licenses to gay couples, has just petitioned the Supreme Court to hear her case, again. Her attorneys with Liberty Counsel: "This court should revisit & reverse Obergefell," the 2015 case that legalized gay marriage.
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RT @_AustinHorn: Massie on Epstein files: . "I suspect (Trump's) got some powerful friends who are in these files & I suspect that if the t….
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“I think they’ve had the Yellow Pages and the White Pages out and called just about everybody they can find in my district to run,” Massie said of Trump’s search for a GOP rival.
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RT @PubAffairsKET: This weekend on Comment on Kentucky, Bill Bryant @kynewsmakers welcomes @AcquistoA of @heraldleader, @isaiah_km Martinez….
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RT @RyanVanVelzer: The lost funding will damage some of Kentucky's larger stations and could devastate smaller stations, especially in rura….
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Kentucky’s public broadcasting stations are set to lose millions of dollars in potential annual funding after Congress passed a $9 billion rescission package Thursday night.
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The Department of Justice is recommending a one-day sentence for ex-Louisville Metro Police Department officer Brett Hankison, who fired 10 shots into Breonna Taylor’s apartment in March 2020 during a botched police raid of her home.
kentucky.com
In their sentencing memorandum, prosecutors acknowledged Brett Hankison would never own a firearm or work in law enforcement again.
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The architect of the SBC's effort to overturn gay marriage told me, “I'm not saying America is on the cusp of a social conservative renaissance. But there's more openness to my worldview than I've perceived there ever has been since I’ve been an adult.” .
kentucky.com
Andrew Walker, who teaches at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, wrote the proposal Southern Baptists approved calling on the Supreme Court to overturn the right to gay marriage.
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RT @_AustinHorn: The KY Legislative Ethics Commission found probable cause that Rep. Daniel Grossberg violated state ethics code on three d….
kentucky.com
The Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission said there’s enough evidence to suggest Rep. Daniel Grossberg violated the ethics code. The next step is an adjudicatory hearing.
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Probable cause Rep. Daniel Grossberg violated KY ethics code, commission finds.
kentucky.com
The Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission said there’s enough evidence to suggest Rep. Daniel Grossberg violated the ethics code. The next step is an adjudicatory hearing.
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