Lundsford is a GOPer running as a Dem!

[Pryderi]

http://www.bluegrassreport.org/bluegrass_politics/2007/03/biggest_liar_br.html
Political donations:
* New York Republican Party -- $1,000 (10/13/05)
* Lamar Alexander for Senate (R-Tenn) -- $1,000 (5/1/02)
* George W. Bush for President -- $1,000 (4/7/00)
* New Republican Majority Fund -- $5,000 (7/30/97)
* Bunning for Senate -- $1,000 (7/10/97) (challenger campaign)
* 1997 Republican Senate-House Dinner -- $5,000 (6/10/97)
* National Republican Congressional Committee -- $2,500 (6/10/97)
* National Republican Senatorial Committee -- $2,500 (6/10/97)
* National Republican Senatorial Committee -- $5,000 (3/31/97)
* Northup for Congress -- $500 (10/24/96) (challenger campaign)
* Northup for Congress -- $500 (7/10/96) (challenger campaign)
* 1996 Republican House-Senate Dinner -- $5,000 (6/13/96)
* Republican National Committee -- $2,500 (5/3/96)
* Republican Party of Kentucky -- $2,500 (10/4/95)
* Lamar Alexander for President -- $1,000 (9/26/95)
* Bob Dole for President -- $1,000 (3/24/95)

[BridgeTheGap]

1. How can any one possibly trust this guy?

He has no credibility!

[alfredo]

2. He keeps spamming me.

[BridgeTheGap]

3. Yeah, that's the other thing

how in the hell did they (and a few other candidates) get my email address? I did not sign up for it. Must have been the KDP.

[alfredo]

4. had to be. I'd rather hear from Miller.

[xthetylerx]

5. Disappointed in Stumbo

For being his running mate. That donor record is dispicable. I wonder if he'll endorse Fletcher again after losing the primary.

Beshear/Mongiardo 2007.

[groovedaddy]

7. I'm leary about Beshear

Lucas went after Geoff Davis last year over his support of "PayDay" lenders. Beshear, as an attorney, has lobbied on behalf of these same interests, who are putting it to poor people & those in the military. I don't know about someone who supports these interests being governor.

[Roland99]

6. When I first heard he was running as a Dem gubenatorial candidate my jaw dropped.

[BridgeTheGap]

8. What a creep!

I hope labor unions have enough $$$ to go after this guy with some telling ads!

Top 10 Reasons To Vote Against Bruce Lunsford For Governor

10. During the 2006 congressional race, Lunsford personally contributed more money to Anne Northup ($4,100) than to John Yarmuth ($2,000).

9. Four years ago, during the KET Democratic gubernatorial debate, Lunsford vowed to support the Democratic nominee in the general election, but on October 20, 2003, while standing next to his “friend” Sen. Mitch McConnell (R), Lunsford endorsed Ernie Fletcher for governor.

8. Lunsford now promises “I’ll fix our broken health-care system” but as Chairman and CEO of Vencor, he paid $104.5 million to the federal government for Medicare/Medicaid fraud claims.

7. A few months before Vencor publicly admitted to investors about declining revenues and staggering debt in 1997, Lunsford had sold 50,000 shares at $47 apiece, for $2.35 million. Within three months, Vencor was trading at $30/share, and eventually the stock became worthless.

6. On the Vencor Board of Directors at the time of its crash was none other than current U.S. Secretary of Labor, Elaine Chao, also the wife of U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (R).

5. Following his election as governor in 2003, Fletcher named Lunsford to lead a blue ribbon transition team to re-organize government. Immediately, Lunsford’s team eliminated the Labor Cabinet.

4. After Congress cut Medicaid reimbursements to nursing homes, Lunsford offered cash bonuses to his employees who successfully evicted seniors who relied upon Medicaid to pay their bills so they could fill those beds with higher paying, private patients. This practice was known as “patient dumping.”

3. After Congress passed legislation to outlaw Lunsford’s practice of “patient dumping,” he paid a Washington, DC lobbyist $60,000 to try amend the Social Security Act to allow patient dumping after courts told him to stop and Vencor had been fined $780,000 for trying to kick out 137 residents.

2. Between 1995 and 2000, Lunsford personally donated $52,000 to federal political candidates and parties. Of that amount, $40,250 (77%) went to Republicans, including to both of Kentucky’s Republican senators, four Republican congressmen (Rogers, Whitfield, Lewis, Northup), as well as the Republican Party of Kentucky, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, and George W. Bush for President.

1. In May 2003, Lunsford dropped out the Democratic gubernatorial primary after polls showed him falling into third place (behind Ben Chandler and Jody Richards). Rather than finish third, Lunsford pulled-up lame and blamed a mean Chandler television ad for his surrender. Does Kentucky want another wimp as governor?

***On May 22, Kentucky Democrats must refuse to elect Bruce Lunsford as its nominee for Governor

[Roland99]

9. BTW, Lunsford/Stumbo PLAGIARIZED the Blueprint for Ky from a FL gubenatorial candidate!!

The story is at BluegrassReport

[stevietheman]

10. Not only that...

but Lunsfraud also stated to the Ashland newspaper that he and Stumbo "sat down and wrote the plan".

No integrity in this man!

[BridgeTheGap]

11. Organized Labor has formed a 527 to go after this s.o.b.

Thank God! Some $$$ to run ads to bring out the truth.
I hope they expose this fraud for what he is!