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Bunning's Wild Pitches Tighten Kentucky Senate Race
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Oct 15, 2004 11:58pm |
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| Category | General |
| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Friday, October 15, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Paul Farhi
Friday, October 15, 2004; Page A06
Just a few weeks ago, Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) looked like a lock for reelection, with a huge lead in the polls over his Democratic challenger, state Sen. Daniel Mongiardo. But then Bunning started behaving . . . oddly.
The one-term incumbent (and Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher) has stalked out of a news interview, compared his dark-complexioned opponent to one of Saddam Hussein's sons, and accused Mongiardo or a member of his campaign staff of roughing up Bunning's wife at an event over the summer -- an accusation Mongiardo's staff calls "sad and untrue." Bunning has also beefed up his security detail, telling a Paducah TV station, "There may be strangers among us."
On Monday, Bunning declined to show up in Kentucky, as agreed, for a debate with Mongiardo. Instead, he beamed in via satellite from the Republican National Committee's TV studio in Washington and refused to let a neutral observer monitor his participation. Bunning's campaign manager, David Young, later acknowledged that Bunning had read his opening and closing statements off a teleprompter. Mongiardo's campaign said that violated the debate's rules.
All of which has prompted two things: a competitive Senate race in Kentucky and questions about Bunning. |
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