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Candidate Grimes addresses joint chamber, Rotary luncheon Wednesday

By JIM BROOKS
Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio

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Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, is greeted as she arrives Wednesday at My Old Kentucky Country Club for a luncheon sponsored by the Bardstown Rotary Club and the Bardstown-Nelson County Chamber of Commerce.

Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014, 2:30 p.m. — Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Alison Lundergan Grimes spoke to a packed house Wednesday in a joint luncheon sponsored by the Bardstown Rotary and the Bardstown-Nelson County Chamber of Commerce at the Old Kentucky Home Country Club.

Grimes spent more than half of her speaking time detailing her efforts to improve the Secretary of State’s office ability to meet the needs of Kentucky business owners and secure the election process. She also touted changes that now give deployed soldiers the ability to request an absentee ballot and return it in time for their vote to count.

With the applause of the crowd, Grimes shifted into campaign mode, calling her campaign “a continuing journey to get Washington working the same way we have been getting Frankfort to work.”

Grimes said she would reach across the aisle to bring both parties and Independents together “and putting people ahead of partisan politics,” she said.

Citing unemployment and poverty statistics, Grimes promised to put the needs of Kentucky ahead of partisan politics. She took Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to task for his comments that job creation was a state issue and not his job.

“My hope is that we can have a United States Senator who does believe it is their No. 1 priority to grow the middle class and put hard-working Kentuckians back to work,” she said.

Without specifically citing her support of raising the minimum wage, Grimes said it was important to raise incomes all across the state while keeping Kentucky competitive domestically and globally.

Grimes also said she supported investment in early childhood education, and fighting to give employers an incentive to hired military veterans. Regarding student loans, Grimes said students should have the right to refinance their student loans at the same rates given to Wall Street banks. “Our graduates deserve the right to earn degrees, not debt.”

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