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theHandpuppet

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Sun Oct 5, 2014, 08:32 AM Oct 2014

Andy Barr sticks with anti-Obama theme in race against lesser-known Elisabeth Jensen

I am sooooooo sick of this shit!!!

Lexington Herald Leader
Andy Barr sticks with anti-Obama theme in race against lesser-known Elisabeth Jensen
By John Cheves
October 4, 2014

Members of Congress seldom lose elections, having better name recognition and more money than most challengers. But U.S. Rep. Ben Chandler, D-Versailles, fell two years ago to a young Republican lawyer named Andy Barr.

Barr ousted Chandler after he aggressively tied the incumbent to Democratic President Barack Obama, who is reviled in Kentucky. On the same ballot that doomed Chandler, Obama lost Central Kentucky's 6th Congressional District by 14 points.

Now that Barr is the incumbent seeking re-election Nov. 4, he is sticking with what worked last time. He's running hard against Obama while almost never uttering the name of his Democratic opponent, Elisabeth Jensen, who runs an educational nonprofit.

Barr delivers a fast-paced, 15-minute stump speech expressing his disgust with the $17 trillion federal debt; spending on entitlement programs such as Social Security; "Obamacare"; the Environmental Protection Agency's "war on coal"; bank regulations; the Benghazi attack; illegal immigrants; prisoner releases from Guantánamo Bay; the Internal Revenue Service; the Department of Veterans Affairs; Iran moving to get nuclear weapons; Russia invading Ukraine; Syria imploding; and "an army of well-armed, battled-hardened Islamic fighters" on the march in the Middle East....

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2014/10/04/3463438_andy-barr-sticks-with-anti-obama.html?sp=/99/322/&rh=1#storylink=cpy

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Andy Barr sticks with anti-Obama theme in race against lesser-known Elisabeth Jensen (Original Post) theHandpuppet Oct 2014 OP
I'm looking forward to voting for Jensen A Little Weird Oct 2014 #1

A Little Weird

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1. I'm looking forward to voting for Jensen
Sun Oct 5, 2014, 12:10 PM
Oct 2014

But truthfully she hasn't run a great campaign. I think this race is so eclipsed by the Grimes/McConnell race that it doesn't get much attention.

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