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KENTUCKY....
At a Republican campaign event in Somerset Saturday, U.S. Representative Harold "Hal" Rogers said he agrees with Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul on many things, but they differ greatly on the issue of Operation UNITE. Rogers says he's disappointed that Paul had not expressed support for the task force Rogers created to fight drugs in his district, where substance abuse has been described as an epidemic. Rogers, who has represented the 5th District in Eastern and Southern Kentucky for three decades, started UNITE in 2003. The task force gets most of its money from federal sources, and Paul says he would rather see drug abuse and dependency treated and paid for at the local level. Pike County Judge-Executive Wayne T. Rutherford said Saturday that drugs have been disastrous to all our families, but local officials say they simply don't have the resources to deal with the problem alone.