Friday, March 28, 2008

Hillary coming to Madisonville

Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton will be in Madisonville Saturday, an early visit to Kentucky ahead of the May 20 primary election.

Clinton will also be in Louisville Saturday.

The candidate, in a tight race but slightly trailing Barack Obama in balloting, is drawing a lot of support in Hopkins County.

She will speak at the Ruby Laffoon Dinner, named for a Madisonville native who served as Kentucky governor in the early to mid-1930s. The event generally draws a few hundred people, but organizers think about 3,500 will attend now that Clinton is on the dance card.

Clinton campaign officials say she will handily carry Kentucky.