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    Charles Booker launches exploratory committee to consider challenge to Rand Paul

    Charles Booker launches exploratory committee to consider challenge to Rand Paul

    BY JOHN BOWDEN
    04/12/21

    Former Kentucky state Rep. Charles Booker (D) launched an exploratory committee Monday to examine the possibility of challenging Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) for the state's U.S. Senate seat as Paul faces reelection next year.

    In a video announcement Monday morning, Booker put Paul on notice with a declaration: "We will transform Kentucky. And Rand Paul? You know it too."



    In a statement to local news station WBKO, Booker added, "Even in a historic, unprecedented public health and economic crisis, most of our politicians couldn’t be bothered to do anything, voting against survival checks for working families and trying to take away our health care in order to give our money away to wealthy campaign donors. Kentuckians deserve a senator who will fight as hard for us as we fight for each other, and that’s why I’m formally announcing an exploratory committee for U.S. Senate."

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    https://thehill.com/homenews/campaig...llenge-to-rand



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    "Even in a historic, unprecedented public health and economic crisis, most of our politicians couldn’t be bothered to do anything, voting against survival checks for working families and trying to take away our health care in order to give our money away to wealthy campaign donors. Kentuckians deserve a senator who will fight as hard for us as we fight for each other, and that’s why I’m formally announcing an exploratory committee for U.S. Senate."
    Well, he's certainly got the empty platitudes for the job.
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    Dominion can't wait.
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

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    Rand is going to tear this guy a new $#@!.
    "Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration is minding my own business."

    Calvin Coolidge

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    This guy would be an almost ideal opponent for Rand. Not only is he is extremely progressive but he is aggressively pushing Puerto Rico and DC statehood as well as court packing. Not the kind of Dem Kentucky would consider. Will lose by 25 points.

    https://mobile.twitter.com/Booker4KY/status/1380635885318856705

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    Quote Originally Posted by Krugminator2 View Post
    This guy would be an almost ideal opponent for Rand. Not only is he is extremely progressive but he is aggressively pushing Puerto Rico and DC statehood as well as court packing. Not the kind of Dem Kentucky would consider. Will lose by 25 points.

    https://mobile.twitter.com/Booker4KY...35885318856705
    Right up till midnight, then counting will stop and he will get a miraculous bounce.
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

    A Zero Hedge comment

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    With biden as president it makes it easier for Paul to win.



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