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Republican Christopher Hightower, who is challenging Democratic state Rep. Martha Jane King for the 16th District state House seat, banked about $7,000 from a fundraiser headlined by Paul in August. He got an additional $1,000 from Paul’s political action committee, Rand PAC.
Hightower said the contributions from Paul, plus another $2,000 from U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell’s Bluegrass Committee PAC, speak to his credibility as a candidate.
http://www.courier-journal.com/viewart/20121014/NEWS01/310140059/Former-Rand-Paul-aide-getting-fundraising-help?odyssey=nav%7Chead
The article also goes over the MySpace controversy again but implies that it isn't hurting him all that much:
A tea party candidate, Hightower said trying to paint him as a racist in the largely rural legislative district encompassing Logan and Todd counties is a tough sale. “The difference here is that a lot of people know me, and it doesn’t work here,” he said. “People know that’s not true.”