Rand Paul and Jim Gray speaking at Fancy Farm (video added)

[jct74]

Senate hopefuls to be together for first time at Fancy Farm

By ADAM BEAM
Friday, August 5, 2016

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky’s U.S. Senate candidates will make their first appearance together at the rowdy Fancy Farm political picnic amid a turbulent national election year.

Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul and Democratic Lexington Mayor Jim Gray are scheduled to face the raucous crowds in Fancy Farm, where thousands of people have gathered every year since 1880 on the grounds of the St. Jerome Parish to eat barbecued pork, play Bingo and see how well politicians deliver a speech while being peppered with boos and insults from at least half the crowd.

It will be Gray’s first appearance in the shaded pavilion as the mayor of Kentucky’s second largest city is making his first bid for statewide office. Paul, finishing up his first term in the U.S. Senate, is a Fancy Farm veteran. But he skipped last year’s event so he could campaign for president - a fact Gray will try to remind him of on Saturday.

“In the tradition of Fancy Farm and their old-school political stump speaking, (Gray will) have a few things to say about his opponent and his opponent’s presidential ambitions,” Gray spokeswoman Cathy Lindsey said.

But it appears Paul will spend most of his time talking about Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee whose popularity has suffered in Kentucky since she made comments about putting coal miners and coal companies out of business - remarks she later said were “mistaken.”

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/5/senate-hopefuls-to-be-together-for-first-time-at-f/



update:

 

[CPUd]

LOL:

Mark Vanderhoff @WLKYMark

@RandPaul supporters ask US Senate challenger Jim Gray: Why the big hole in middle of Lexington (CentrePointe)?
12:05 PM - 6 Aug 2016

https://twitter.com/WLKYMark/status/761971351301349376

FANCY FARM, Ky. (WBKO) -- "I am Jim Gray, and I am the guy who is going to beat Rand Paul," said Jim Gray.

"How could Mayor Gray have left this gaping hole downtown for nearly a decade. I heard the real reason that the big hole is still there, why he stopped work on the big hole, because he heard there was coal in it," said Rand Paul.

Bowling Green's own Rand Paul against Glasgow native and Lexington Mayor Jim Gray.

Paul's biggest point was to tie Gray to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

"Jim and Alison and the whole bunch are now willing to admit they support Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. It's even more important now that we know their true purpose, what they really stand for, we must defend ourselves against the supporters of Hillary Clinton," Paul exclaimed.

Gray went after Paul's failed presidential campaign, saying he was more worried about that race than Kentuckians.

"Rand has left Kentucky behind and spent more time in the cornfields of Iowa and the coffee shops of New Hampshire," Gray said.

That wasn't his only barb about his race though.

"He and his failed presidential campaign are still $300,000 in debt to individuals and businesses. He rails about the evils of debt and builds a mountain of his own. That's my opponent," exclaimed Gray.

The biggest question coming out of this year's Fancy Farm is did Lexington Mayor Jim Gray do enough to convince Kentucky voters that he's the right person to go to Washington as a United States Senator. It will be up to the voters to decide if they want to keep Paul there or add a new face in Jim Gray for Kentucky.

http://www.wbko.com/content/news/Jim-Gray-Rand-Paul-spar-at-Fancy-Farm-389394871.html

 

[CPUd]

Here is the hole they are talking about:

In January 2011, when Jim Gray took office as Mayor, he pledged in his first major speech to tackle CentrePointe and resolve its issues. CentrePointe, also commonly known as “CentrePit” by Lexington locals, is that GIANT hole in the middle of downtown Lexington (pictured above).

Since that time though, nothing has been done to change CentrePointe. In fact, it has probably even lost ground at some points. He brought in a world-renowned architect, Jeanne Gang, who was ultimately not used by the developer. Other architectural firms have chosen to leave the project. Developers have left the project due to disagreements with Gray’s administration. And major tenants have left because of project delays.

All that to say, it isn’t going well for Gray and his plan to tackle CentrePit, err, CentrePointe.

But don’t worry! You see, there’s more than one way to solve the issue of that giant, ugly, massive eye sore in the middle of Gray’s very own city!

It’s been estimated that more than 60,000 cubic yards of dirt and rock were hauled off to design that carefully crafted dirt hole sitting in the middle of Gray’s city.

So, taking a page from protestors and Lexington officials who called for or planned on filling CentrePointe if nothing was done, there’s a few things Gray could have filled CentrePointe with instead of just leaving it wide open.

http://jimgray4ky.com/

 

[jct74]

tube added to OP

 

[phill4paul]

Here is the hole they are talking about:

http://jimgray4ky.com/

Lol. Reminds me of the series "Parks and Recreation."