David Tandy

Former Congressman and ex-NAACP president Kwesi Mfume (D-Maryland) will make an appearance in Louisville today on behalf of the Presidential campaign of Illinois Senator Barack Obama.

Mfume will appear at the Louisville Glassworks, located at 815 W. Market Street, with Obama supporter and Louisville Metro Council member David Tandy at 4:00pm.

Councilman David Tandy

LOUISVILLE -- Positioned between two large steel-frame bridges spanning the Ohio River, Louisville Metro Councilman David Tandy took up the attack on a proposed gas tax moratorium at an afternoon press conference today on behalf of Senator Barack Obama.

In front of a handful of reporters gathered at the waterfront Harbor Lawn park - just off the banks of the Kentucky side of the Ohio River - Tandy argued the three-month "tax holiday" proposed by both Senators John McCain and Hillary Clinton would wreak havoc on Kentucky by sapping money and jobs from transportation budgets.

The presidential campaign of Senator Barack Obama announced the formation of the “Kentucky Truth Squad” this morning – a new effort the Obama camp says will help them “combat misleading attacks” from the campaigns of Senators John McCain and Hillary Clinton.

The “Kentucky Truth Squad” is composed of Louisville Metro Councilman David Tandy, former State Senator David Karem (D-Louisville), and state Representative Ruth Ann Palumbo (D-Lexington).

“We want to stand up and refute false and misleading claims,” said Tandy. “Kentucky has the opportunity to make a historic choice. We want to make sure the old-school Washington playbook of slash-and-burn politics…doesn’t prevail at the end of the day.”

Congressman John Yarmuth
Barack Obama’s campaign in Kentucky kicked off in earnest Saturday morning, as approximately four hundred supporters of the Illinois Senator gathered in Louisville for a rally held in conjunction with the opening of the campaign’s state headquarters.  read more »