Jack Conway, Rand Paul last debate tonight on KET

LEXINGTON – The two candidates for the Kentucky U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Villa Hills) will participate in the final debate of a contentious campaign that has attracted national attention tonight at 8 p.m. on KET.

The debate, between Republican Dr. Rand Paul and Democrat Jack Conway is the last in a series that grew heated in its last installment at the University of Louisville. In fact, following the debate at U of L, candidate Paul was uncertain if we would participate in tonight’s event,
alleging that Conway’s campaign had gone too far in its television ads that focused on Paul’s college days at Baylor University and the “Aqua Buddha” incident.
But on Friday, Paul announced that he would participate in the debate, to be broadcast from  Kentucky Educational Television’s headquarters on Cooper Drive near the University of Kentucky campus.

The debate will be an edition of the long-running public affairs program “Kentucky Tonight,” with questions posed by host Bill Goodman. It will air in Lexington on KET, which is Insight Ch. 12 or Ch. 918 in HD.

Paul is a Bowling Green eye doctor whose candidacy, associated with the Tea Party movement, has attracted national attention. Conway is the current Attorney General of the Commonwealth.
National political experts and analysts are keeping an eye on the Kentucky race as a bellwether for the country’s election mood, especially as there is no incumbent on the ballot with Bunning’s retirement.
This is the fifth debate in the candidates’ series. Both candidates
have visited the UK campus several times on the campaign trail. Rand Paul attended two Citizen Kentucky debates sponsored by the Scripps Howard First Amendment Center at the University of Kentucky. Conway recently came to campus for a rally that included a visit by former President Bill Clinton and former U.S. Sen. Wendell Ford. Voters will go to the polls Tuesday, Nov. 2 to select the new senator from Kentucky.