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Related: About this forumAshley Judd has NOT yet decided if she will run or not - HP updated their article
The UPDATED Huffington Post article ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Ashley Judd, the 44-year-old actress and social activist, has told key advisers and political figures that she is planning to announce her candidacy for U.S. Senate here this spring.
Judd told one close ally that she plans to announce her run for the Democratic nomination for the 2014 race around Derby -- meaning in early May when the Kentucky Derby brings national attention to Louisville and the Bluegrass State.
Reached for comment by email Saturday, Judd offered a not-quite-ironclad denial to The Huffington Post. I am not sure who is saying this stuff, but it is not I! Id prefer as a fan of your journalism that you stay accurate and credible. We told everyone who called us yesterday these stories are fabrications.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/09/ashley-judd-senate-run_n_2843852.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
Judd told one close ally that she plans to announce her run for the Democratic nomination for the 2014 race around Derby -- meaning in early May when the Kentucky Derby brings national attention to Louisville and the Bluegrass State.
Reached for comment by email Saturday, Judd offered a not-quite-ironclad denial to The Huffington Post. I am not sure who is saying this stuff, but it is not I! Id prefer as a fan of your journalism that you stay accurate and credible. We told everyone who called us yesterday these stories are fabrications.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/09/ashley-judd-senate-run_n_2843852.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
And from March 1st...
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Judd has told potential supporters that she will make a decision on running sometime before the Kentucky Derby on May 4.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/03/01/ashley-judd-kentucky-senate/1958015/
She has NOT yet made a decision.
Sounds like to me that some folks are misinterpreting what she has said.
Announcing a 'decision' is not the same thing as announcing her 'candidacy'.
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Ashley Judd has NOT yet decided if she will run or not - HP updated their article (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Mar 2013
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David Zephyr
(22,785 posts)1. I hope she runs. If she does, she will win.
She'll destroy that old fraud in a debate. He's a coward. And she's fantastic.
bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)2. I'm not convinced that HUCKLEBERRY Kentucky is ready for a female Senator
Those are some back woods idiots in that state.I don't know if she could win
David Zephyr
(22,785 posts)3. Let's have a friendly cyber bet.
I think she'll run and she will win.
Keep in mind, Mississippi voters shot down the "personhood" ballot measure. All the polls showed it winning, but when those "conservatives" got in the ballot booth, they voted it down.
I think she just might pull it off. It sure would be wild if she did!
Cha
(297,314 posts)4. I hope this doesn't turn out like
the elizabeth hasselbeck story of her getting axed from the view when in reality she's not going anywhere.
thanks for the update, Tx.. and reality check
jenmito
(37,326 posts)5. Yet even TODAY Howard Fineman has been all over MSNBC saying she has decided she WILL run and
will announce it in May. And every show has been discussing the Judd-McConnell race.
flpoljunkie
(26,184 posts)6. Run, Ashley, run!!!