Sunday, October 03, 2010
Hal Rogers Looking For 16th Term
KENTUCKY...
The race to represent Kentucky's 5th Congressional District is a repeat match between a politically powerful Republican incumbent with a substantial war chest and a Democratic political neophyte with meager coffers and virtually no financial support from his party.
Republican U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers of Somerset, known for steering federal money toward projects in his district, may well be on his way to a 16th term.
Rogers, 72, had raised more than $500,000 as of the June campaign finance filing deadline — much of that donated by the defense industry, an effort aided by connections he made while once serving as the first chairman of the House subcommittee on Homeland Security.
Meanwhile, Democratic challenger James "Jim" Holbert, 58, an emergency medical services helicopter pilot from London who is serving as his own campaign treasurer, has struggled to scrape together $10,000 for his grass-roots bid.
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