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KY-03
KY GOPer On Gender Discrimination: I'll Believe In It When I See It (VIDEO)
Todd Lally
In Kentucky, one Republican is standing firm against the concept of gender discrimination. Todd Lally, insurgent GOP nominee for Congress in the state's 3rd Congressional District, says he's never personally seen women be discriminated against -- and therefore, he says, gender discrimination may not exist at all.
Even in this so-called Year Of The Woman in politics, the vast majority of women casting ballots this year will find themselves choosing between two men to represent them in elected office. And in Kentucky, the choice includes one man who seems to base his entire knowledge of women's professional lives on the experience of his very successful wife and his own workplace observations.
The Democrat in the race, incumbent Rep. John Yarmuth, is making hay out of Tally's position, recently calling him out at a televised debate with facts and figures about women in Kentucky workplaces. Lally's response at the debate was essentially to shrug his shoulders and again say he doesn't know from gender discrimination.
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KY-03
GOP Establishment Pick Trounced In KY-03 Primary
KY-03 GOP Congressional candidate Todd Lally
In the Republican primary in the KY-03 House race, the NRCC chose Jeff Reetz as their candidate --- but it looks like they chose the wrong tea partier.
Reetz, a Pizza Hut franchise owner, lost the primary, badly, to UPS pilot Todd Lally. Lally won 52% of the vote to Reetz's 17%, with 94% of precincts reporting. Reetz didn't even come in second: Another Republican, Larry Hausman, garnered 25% of the vote.
All the candidates had courted the tea party vote, and Lally and Reetz had both appeared at tea party events and had spoken out against "ObamaCare." But the NRCC chose Reetz for their "Young Guns" program, naming him a third-tier "on the radar" candidate in April.
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