McConnell Campaign on Last Minute West KY Swing

WKMS | By Todd Hatton

Published October 28, 2014 at 12:25 PM CDT

U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell continues his campaign swing through the Commonwealth prior to next week’s general election with a series of stops in western Kentucky. McConnell appears this afternoon at Trigg County Hospital in Cadiz before his stop this evening at Furches Farm in Calloway County.

1^st District U.S. Congressman Ed Whitfield and country artist Lee Greenwood will appear with McConnell at the 5:45 p.m. event, which will also showcase GOP candidates running for office in Calloway. The senate majority leader will wrap up his visit with a meet-and-greet at the McCracken County Republican Party headquarters tomorrow morning at 9. McConnell faces Democratic challenger, and Kentucky Secretary of State, Allison Lundergan Grimes in next Tuesday’s balloting.

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Todd Hatton hails from Paducah, Kentucky, where he got into radio under the auspices of the late, great John Stewart of WKYX while a student at Paducah Community College. He also worked at WKMS in the reel-to-reel tape days of the early 1990s before running off first to San Francisco, then Orlando in search of something to do when he grew up. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at Murray State University. He vigorously resists adulthood and watches his wife, Angela Hatton, save the world one plastic bottle at a time.

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