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Dems love to throw away money on their fave candidates. Emphasis mine.

Amy McGrath on Monday officially launched another Kentucky Senate bid, aiming to take the seat held by retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell. McGrath, a retired fighter pilot, announced her candidacy on X, saying the Bluegrass state deserves a senator “battle-tested and ready to fight.”

“I know what courage looks like. Right now, way too many politicians don’t, and Americans are being thrown under the bus by cowards in Washington without the moral backbone to serve our nation with honor,” McGrath said in her announcement. In 2019, McGrath ran against McConnell in one of the most expensive senate races in Kentucky history. In 2018, she raised nearly $8 million in her House run. She narrowly lost that race to Republican Rep. Andy Barr.

Since McConnell announced his retirement in February, the pool of candidates vying for his seat has grown. In addition to McGrath, state Rep. Pamela Stevenson, attorney and former Secret Service agent Logan Forsythe and Joel Willett, an ex-CIA and military officer, will face off in the Democratic primary. Barr, former Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron and businessperson Nate Morris will face off in the Republican primary.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/06/congress/amy-mcgrath-kentucky-senate-mcconnell-00594677

My edit of the final paragraph is much easier to read...

Since McConnell announced his retirement in February, the pool of candidates vying for his seat has grown. In addition to McGrath...

Democratic primary

  • Logan Forsythe, an attorney and former Secret Service agent
  • Pamela Stevenson, a State Rep.
  • Joel Willett, an ex-CIA and military officer

Republican primary

  • Andy Barr
  • Daniel Cameron, former Kentucky Attorney General
  • Nate Morris, businessperson
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[–] NotALeatherMuppet@hexbear.net 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

If you are a Democrat in a red state, your choices are:

Girlboss war criminal pilot (white)

Girlboss war criminal jag lawyer (black)

Meat shield bootlicker

Spy war criminal

After a very short review of the candidates, Girlboss war criminal jag lawyer (black), Pamela Stevenson seems to be the obvious choice for vocally defending transgender youth

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago

If you are a Democrat in a red state, your choices are:

Girlboss war criminal pilot (white)

As a "Democrat" in a blue state, this is also where we ended up.

[–] radio_free_asgarthr@hexbear.net 21 points 4 days ago

The Dems love losers

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 12 points 4 days ago

Grifters gotta grift

[–] ryepunk@hexbear.net 11 points 4 days ago

McConnell will die and she'll still fucking lose. Because she's a damn loser.

[–] pierre_delecto@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 days ago

Wow, CIA, SS and chair force. The Kentucky Democrats have a real goon squad going

[–] CarbonConscious@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Idk if it was just my latent social anxiety interacting with that list of names or what, but those last few sentences were extremely hard to parse.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago

The order of things is haphazard. It's a mess. My favorite thing is this glob - "Barr, former Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron". If I was the editor - I would have created easy to see/understand lists. Alphabetical of course.

Since McConnell announced his retirement in February, the pool of candidates vying for his seat has grown. In addition to McGrath...

Democratic primary

  • Logan Forsythe, an attorney and former Secret Service agent
  • Pamela Stevenson, a State Rep.
  • Joel Willett, an ex-CIA and military officer

Republican primary

  • Andy Barr
  • Daniel Cameron, former Kentucky Attorney General
  • Nate Morris, businessperson
[–] regul@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

I swear they covered this woman back in 2020 for the exact same thing

[–] john_brown@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

another ten million dollars to the DNC for nothing

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wish I could be paid millions of dollars to do nothing

[–] john_brown@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The DNC has mastered this art and will teach it to those willing to make sacrifices to capital

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago

Them and fired college or professional football/basketball coaches living the dream

[–] NotALeatherMuppet@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago

Can't wait to hear what Tom, Tarence, Aaron and Tanya have to say about this one