Thursday, August 21, 2014

McConnell and Grimes assail each other, talk farm policy at Farm Bureau forum

In a warm-up for their only scheduled debate this fall, Kentucky's two major U.S. Senate candidates assailed each other as they discussed farm-related policy at the Kentucky Farm Bureau's "Measure the Candidates" forum. U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his Democratic opponent, Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, didn't break much new ground as they divided the afternoon into a punctuated stump speech by Grimes and wonkish filibusters by McConnell.

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