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Grimes video serves as platform to hit McConnell on record and campaign kick-off invite
cn|2 Pure Politics ^ | 07/25/2013 | Jacqueline Pitts

Posted on 07/26/2013 7:41:15 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat

Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes invites Kentuckians to her official campaign kickoff, tells personal stories, and speaks directly to her potential opponent Kentucky U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell in her first campaign video released Thursday.

Toward the end of the ad, Grimes addresses McConnell directly by saying “now this part is for you, Senator McConnell.” Grimes goes on to hit McConnell on his voting record on issues including the Paycheck Fairness Act, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the Violence Against Women Act and more.

“Your campaign wants to play silly games about where I am and where I stand. Well I’m right here in Kentucky, senator, where I’ll be holding you accountable,” Grimes says to McConnell in the ad.

The video, titled “The Campaign Begins”, lasts close to four minutes and shows Grimes seated in the same dining room as her most memorable 2011 campaign ad featuring her grandmothers. Grimes relates the new video to the ad with the line from her grandmother Thelma “government should either help create jobs or get out of the way.”

Grimes tells viewers she still firmly believes in that idea and says it is “a lesson a certain Kentucky Senator has never learned.”

Grimes official campaign kick-off event is on July 30 in Lexington.

(Excerpt) Read more at mycn2.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: benton; grimes; lundergan; mcconnell

1 posted on 07/26/2013 7:41:15 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

Good for Mitch for voting against those abominations.


2 posted on 07/26/2013 7:43:28 PM PDT by libstripper (A)
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To: Republican Wildcat

I don’t mind Mcconnell being ousted. He is an incompetent Republican leader.


3 posted on 07/26/2013 7:56:27 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: Republican Wildcat

Mitch McC is proof that Kentuckians are “low information voters”.


4 posted on 07/26/2013 8:07:58 PM PDT by Theodore R. ("Hey, except for six women in Sanford, FL, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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To: Republican Wildcat

Bevin is going to crush this dim. mcconnell has a new pasture in his future.


5 posted on 07/26/2013 8:26:14 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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