Alison Grimes has a new ad...

[kentuck]

Very effective, I think.

[LeftofObama]

1. Love her!

I wish I lived in Kentucky just so I could vote for her.

[MynameisBlarney]

31. Me too!

She is teh awesome.

[hedgehog]

2. Oooooooooo!

That's going to leave a mark!




Daaaamn!

[eggplant]

11. +1

Those were my exact words.

[conservaphobe]

3. I will crawl through broken glass (if I have to) in November to do my part in voting Mitch out.

[DinahMoeHum]

4. Heh heh, somehow I expected a turtle to go shuffling by. . .

[ReRe]

25. There is a turtle museum/zoo...

... (whatever you call it) up in northern KY (Covington?).
An ad like that could be done.

[Gothmog]

5. I like this ad

[kentuck]

6. McConnell is in trouble...

It's about time for him to get down and dirty... He always does.

[madokie]

23. mitch will wait until right before the polls open to do his dirty work

he's just laying low right now. Sorry racist, bigoted bastid anyway

[genwah]

7. Might be nice if they could show the ad on the TV-machine...

https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/alg_website?refcode=general

[conservaphobe]

8. I've seen it a few times today, but yes...

We need to keep it running.

[kentuck]

9. Also....

It might be noted that for all the time that miners have been losing their jobs, Mitch McConnell has been sitting up in Washington.

[OnlinePoker]

12. Can't see the clip at work, but are these coal miners?

If so, I'm not sorry they've been losing their jobs. Coal is a cancer on humanity.

[kentuck]

15. Perhaps you wouldn't be so dismissive if...

knew that was the only job they had and the best paying jobs in Eastern Kentucky. It's dirty but it feeds their families. It been that way for a hundred years or more.

[GoCubsGo]

16. Which makes it even worse for McConnell.

He and his ilk have been shilling for Big Coal for eons, and yet the coal jobs are disappearing? Those jobs are not being replaced. Not by green jobs. Not by anything.

[PoliticAverse]

24. Yes coal miners, hence the "Coal Feeds my Family" sign in the window.

Grimes is running against the Obama administration's coal policies.

"I'm running to protect our coal jobs"...
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/208200-grimes-knocks-obama-on-coal-in-new-radio-ad

[trumad]

41. Wow!

The irony in you post is amazing.. and that it slipped right by you is even more amazing.

[Ishoutandscream2]

10. Ouch! That's gonna hurt isn't it, Turtle Man?

Yes, very effective.

[Uncle Joe]

13. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, kentuck.

[Stuart G]

14. K an r.

[handmade34]

17. love Alison Grimes

thanks for the ad… checking and I hadn't seen this one either

[A Little Weird]

18. I'm encouraged

This past weekend I ran into my very republican aunt and uncle. They were talking about how good her ads are and were clearly waffling on who they were going to vote for. I suspect they have voted straight ticket republican their entire lives so the fact that they are even thinking about voting for her instead gives me hope. I am going to keep working on them.

[SunSeeker]

19. She's been running great ads for Kentucky.

Folks need work, and health coverage. Especially coal miners. This guy is so drawn, he looks like he may already have black lung.

I wish they'd get green jobs for all those out of work coal miners. For their sake and ours.

[Liberal_Dog]

20. It Is A Great Ad

I believe that we can win this.

[iamthebandfanman]

21. Capitalism.

Capitalism is killing coal.


Something people in my state need to come to terms with.


Coal companies don't care about you, just their bottom line.
They will take and take from your home (the mountains) and leave you with a crumbling shell to deal with after they've long gone.


Time to face reality my KY brothers and sisters.

[get the red out]

28. Amen!

My Grandfathers knew this and didn't trust the coal companies they worked for as far as they could throw them. They also knew that regulations saved lives.

When the Van Lear mines worked out, the company left and moved on, concern for the people? Hell no. My Papaws traveled to other cities to work and feed their families. Their fathers had been paid in "script" to be used only at the store owned by the coal companies. The mining companies care about money, jobs go because of them wanting to make more money, not regulations. Are the coal companies going to stop mining and getting rich because of some more safety and environmental regulations? NO, it's just about their profit margin. People in Kentucky do need to wake up, seriously.

Edit to say: Someone could have held a gun to those old mens heads and they still wouldn't have voted for a thieving Republican.

[davidpdx]

22. She was one of three candidates I sent a little money to

the other two were Davis in Texas and Nunn in Georgia. Oregon is going to be safe this time around so I might as well help out the other states. Thank god we got Merkley elected 2008 and he's going to thump Dr. Stalker.

[get the red out]

26. I really like that ad

It's good and shows her as a candidate for the people. Mitch can't make an ad that doesn't show him as an ass.

[ReRe]

45. When McConnell...

... first started running his ads, he was shown "smiling," which is not natural for him. They looked so stupid, so unnatural, so fake. He didn't look like his hateful self. Those ads were so ridiculous.

[get the red out]

47. His face never looks anything but smug

He always looks like a smug, hateful jerk. In his ads, in his opponents ads; he is powerless to change how he reflects pure ass.

[blueknight]

27. I love allison

and live here in KY. but dont underestimate how ignorant people are in this state. i expect a somewhat closer race then usual, but mitch will win. As election day nears, he will get down and dirty, and that always works here in KY. and that no good fucker is the best at it.

[think]

29. Outstanding

[2naSalit]

30. AND THAT

is how ALL Dem candidates need to address the issues of We The People. Thank you AL-G for giving us the format for political ads from here on into the foreseeable future!!!

And thanks to kentuck for posting this!!

to both of you. I truly hope she wins by a landslide.

2na

[Roy Serohz]

32. So, the idea is to bring more coal mining to Kentucky?

I hope that's an empty campaign promise!

[kentuck]

33. Jobs.

Not necessarily in the coal mines. It is doubtful any of those jobs are coming back. But that is all that those folks have. It is an historically rich part of our country.

[HereSince1628]

37. Good, but bringing jobs to Kentucky...traditional campain promise or real plan?

Bringing jobs home to state "X" is one of the most traditional campaign promises. It's called bringing home the bacon. And McConnel screwed up by appearing to reject that tradition.

I'm not opposed to Kentucky's economy being infused with more employment, but 'from where' will these jobs come? New jobs? Old Jobs revitalized? That question is going to determine what money must be spent, what policies have to be put in place to make that happen, and how long those jobs might last.

I've watched the "job's shuffle", powered by various 'incentives' for business/manufacturing all my life. First the jobs 'went south', and folks I can tell you the "rust belt" hasn't got an awfully lot left to pilfer. Then they went across borders, then across oceans. It's going to take some very big political lifting to bring them back or to create trade restrictions that favor domestic manufacturing. What the rust belt has is a lot of outstanding infrastructure needs that could represent a source of demand large enough to really influence the national economy. But addressing that looks like sending the bacon elsewhere.

The federal government doesn't seem to do said big lifting for domestic purposes anymore, and 'we' don't seem to be in it together anymore. Even if we completely Koch/Walart-ize America, how do we get policies and practices tht move money to investing in production that makes jobs, rather than fake financial instruments that make the 1% richer?

Does Grimes have a chance to fill the perennial promise of bringing home the bacon? Is her best hope, getting more defense spending shifted to Ft Campbell, drones for police departments and the general entrenching America's crippling allocation of treasure to MIC?

[iamthebandfanman]

38. so many outdoor

tourism opportunities across the state...


I think we need a smaller and more tame(not as commercial) version of Gatlinburg/pigeon forge in eastern Kentucky...
its such beautiful landscapes and should be enjoyed by everyone in this country..

gosh, theres not even an easy path or lookout tower on kentuckys tallest mountain (black mountain)..
used to be a fire lookout, but its fallen apart and is unusable now..

these communities are in desperate need of change.. and you can see it on their faces.


I go to Cumberland and Harlen multiple times a year for the great camping and kayaking that can be found in the area... probably will continue to do so until the day I die.. assuming the hills aren't timber-less and the water full of poison from the coal companies.

[get the red out]

48. This is true!

Eastern Kentucky is beautiful! The autumn is amazing. This could be maximized with some good planning. A person could watch the races in Lexington at Keeneland, then be in the beautiful mountains in a couple of hours.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

34. I'm thinking sippin' whiskey.

[PatrickforO]

35. Great ad! I sense pending extinction for a certain turtle.

[santroy79]

36. she's good!

[kentuck]

39. Alison is on the offense!

the latest ad.

[ReRe]

40. I just found her new ad with her grandmother!

Google: Alison Grimes grandmother new ad

Look for the Courier-Journal entry with those words.

[trumad]

42. Here ya go

[ReRe]

43. Thanks, trumad!

Had you ever seen it before? This one was from when she was running (and won) Sec of State in KY. There is a new one, though. As one of her grandmother's (the one in the pink here) passed away not long after they made this one.

[trumad]

44. I have.

My Mother In Law lives in Louisville and is heavily involved with the campaign. I think Allison will win this thing.

[ReRe]

46. She is a formidable candidate...

... everyone in KY knows who she is. She is a winner. She is pretty. She has a brain in her head. And she's tough. She will not flinch at his gutter politics when he starts flinging it. I can't remember anyone who has ever run against McConnell that comes near her campaign. I hope, for KY's sake and for the sake of this country, that she gets it done.

[kentuck]

49. I knew she was for real when...

when she looked into the camera and spoke directly to Mitch McConnell and said, "This is not about Barack Obama - this is between you (pointing to camera) and me (pointing to herself). I could almost feel the Turtle shiver...