Follow the Money: Churchill Downs gives big to groups helping Sen. Adams and other GOP candidates
Source Scout · Kentucky Lantern reports: Kentucky lobbyists also giving to the GOP groups Race-goers gather in Churchill Downs’ paddock ahead of the Kentucky Derby. (Kentucky Lantern photo by McKenna Horsley) Churchill Downs contributed $570,000 during the last three months to Republican PACs that have been spending big on independent advertising aimed at electing State Sen. Julie Raque Adams and other Republicans to the General Assembly in November. The flood of campaign money from Churchill since July 1 is documented in disclosure reports filed last week by GOPAC Inc., the Republican State Leadership Committee, and the Commonwealth Conservative Coalition.