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Area Voters Spotlighted in New McConnell Ad

Area Voters Spotlighted in New McConnell Ad
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By Bill Hughes
Oct. 21, 2014 | WESTERN KENTUCKY
By Bill Hughes Oct. 21, 2014 | 11:44 PM | WESTERN KENTUCKY
Three western Kentucky voters are featured prominently in a re-election campaign advertisement for Senator Mitch McConnell.

The ad features lifelong Democrats who are supporting the Senate's Republican Leader. Grand Rivers Mayor Tom Moodie says labels don't change how McConnell values his constituents. "I'm a Democrat, and he's a Republican, but the parties have nothing to do with the value of the people of Kentucky to Mitch McConnell," Moodie says.

Retired teacher Denise Thompson of Carlisle County says, "I don't vote for the party, I vote for the person that's going to stand strong for my values."

Lifelong union member Kyle Duren of West Paducah says, "I am a life long, blue-collar union man, who is for Mitch McConnell, has been for Mitch McConnell because he is my voice."

This comes after Wayne Chambers, the last vice president of United Steelworkers Local 665, whose members worked at General Tire and Continental Tire in Mayfield, appeared in an ad for Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes. Chambers is shown asking why McConnell gets to keep his job when workers at the plant lost theirs after Continental Tire moved their production elsewhere.

The Grimes ad claims McConnell voted repeatedly for corporate tax loopholes that benefited companies like Continental, but some fact-checkers say those claims are misleading.

The Democratic Party and Senatorial Campaign Committee have already pulled advertising money from Kentucky's airwaves, but Grimes had over $4 million in the bank last week. McConnell still has over $5 million left to spend.

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