{Kentucky}...State employees have given nearly $850,000 to the re-election campaign of Governor Steve Beshear. The Kentucky Republican Party complained this summer that the administration was illegally targeting state workers for contributions. That issue gained more traction Thursday when administration officials acknowledged that Finance Secretary Lori Flanery used her state email account, apparently by mistake, to contact some of the roughly 175 people invited to an October 12th fundraiser she planned to host for Beshear. Republican Party Chairman Steve Robertson said Friday, as he did Thursday night, that Beshear must release the names of those who received Flanery’s emails. Friday, the Beshear campaign released a list of those to whom Flanery emailed retractions after she realized some invitations had gone out from her state email account, but it said it could not supply a list of all those who got the original emails.
