Posted on 01/21/2014 1:32:04 PM PST by cotton1706
FRANKFORT — Matt Bevin is getting some outside help in his uphill battle to unseat U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell in the May Republican primary — and a lot of it targets Republican strongholds in southeastern Kentucky.
The Madison Project, a Washington-based conservative group that supported Republican Ted Cruz in his Texas Senate campaign, announced a week ago it will open five Kentucky get-out-the-vote offices for Bevin. Then on Thursday, the group announced it is erecting billboards in Clay, Laurel, Madison, Pulaski and Whitley counties attacking McConnell. All but Madison are heavily Republican in registration.
A spokeswoman for McConnell’s campaign blasted the group, saying it is “masquerading as a conservative group,” but is aiding liberal groups that attack McConnell.
There are three versions of the billboards: one blames McConnell for supporting Wall Street bailouts; one says healthcare costs have increased 71 percent during his time in office; and the third ties McConnell to the national debt. Their placement in rural Republican areas is no accident, according to Daniel Horowitz, policy advisor for the Madison Project. “That area has a treasure trove of Republican primary voters,” Horowitz explained. “Added together, there are more Republican primary voters in that area who voted in the 2010 primary than there are in Jefferson County.”
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Horowitz said his group’s supporters want a consistently conservative representation in Washington and McConnell “is more concerned about his self-interest” conservative positions. “His ideology is power, not conservatism,” Horowitz said. “Sure he’s talking like a conservative now, but as soon as he has no reason to fear us, he moves back to the middle.”
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This is great news. I met Matt Bevin at a Tea Party event in Cincinnati. He is a great guy.
McCornhole is the poster girl of the GOPe.
Good news...hope that Madison Project is not leaning pro Amnesty now like Jim DeMint’s groups
The girls all get prettier at closin’ time and the Republican politicians all get conservative at votin’ time.
The girls all get prettier at closin’ time and the Republican politicians all get conservative at votin’ time.
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Nicely put! Adding “RINO” right before “Republican” would make it perfect.
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