KY Firm Rubicon Cements Partnership with Peter Thiel’s Palantir
A Kentucky company just announced a partnership with a political juggernaut for Donald Trump and his allies. Lexington-based Rubicon Technologies, which focuses on the digital marketplace for waste and recycling announced on Thursday their strategic partnership with Palantir Technologies to enhance and expand their data, analytics, and reporting capabilities, according to a news release. Palantir...
Four Pack of Kentucky Political Nuggets
Here’s what’s happening in Kentucky as many in the political world take a short collective breath before Fancy Farm in August. Mitch McConnell looks like he is partly to blame for the lack of U.S. Attorney appointments in the Western and Eastern Districts of Kentucky. Reporter Andrew Wolfson explains the impasse between McConnell and Kentucky’s...
McConnell Heads Home After Visit to Ukraine, Sweden & Finland
U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is homeward bound after a visit with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy in Kyiv and diplomats from two nations that wish to join NATO, Sweden and Finland. The Kentucky Republican senator led a delegation from the U.S. Senate that included Sens. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Susan Collins, R-Maine, and John Cornyn, R-Texas,...
Al Cross: As Trump comes to Kentucky, who will welcome him?
As Churchill Downs opens its spring meet this weekend and horses prepare for the Kentucky Derby, our interest is compelled by another sort of stable: Kentucky Republican politicians and their odds of showing up at former president Donald Trump’s fund-raiser at the Derby. The $75,000 ticket price is a convenient excuse not to attend, but...
Beshear’s E-Battery Boom: Japanese Company Latest to Invest Billions in KY
Andy Beshear is continuing to make historic announcements showing he has done what countless politicians before him have tried to do, make the commonwealth a hub for advanced manufacturing bringing billions of dollars and thousands of jobs in the process. The first-term Democratic governor announced on Wednesday that Bowling Green, Kentucky, will be home to...
Charles Booker Suggests McConnell is Racist for Opposing Supreme Court Justice Nominee
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Charles Booker is insinuating that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is a racist for his opposition to President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. On Thursday, McConnell announced he would not support Judge Jackson “after studying the nominee’s record and watching her performance this week.” Booker, who ran in...
McConnell Agrees With Many of Biden’s Moves on Ukraine Wants Faster Actions
Kentucky’s senior U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate Leader, made a rare appearance on Sunday morning news to talk about the war in Ukraine and what the United States can do to help them win the war in their country against Russia. McConnell was clear-spoken on his hopes for what the United States can...
Thomas Massie Supports Putin, says Democratic Congressional Opponent
Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie, R-Vanceburg, is taking fire for his votes in Congress opposing a resolution supporting Ukraine, and voting against banning imports of Russian oil, gas, and coal. Democratic Congressional candidate Matthew Lehman says Massie must answer to Kentuckians for his votes in Congress. “Thomas Massie is giving aid and comfort to Vladimir Putin...
KY Hospital Assoc. Forms Federal PAC
The Kentucky Hospital Association (KHA) formed a new federal political action committee at the end of February as a way to take their issues directly to Kentucky’s Congressman. The trade association tells Kentucky Fried Politics they formed the PAC to separate their federal donations from the American Health Association PAC (AHAPAC) which they previously used...