Conway And P’Pool Debate

{Kentucky}...In a live debate Monday night on Kentucky Educational Television, candidates for Kentucky Attorney General battled over federal health-care reform, drug enforcement and the role of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Republican Todd P’Pool, challenging Democrat incumbent Jack Conway, promised to join the litigation challenging the federal health care reform law of 2010 and attacked Conway for not doing so. Conway, in turn, said he’s running on his record of managing an efficient office under a tight budget and sees no reason to join litigation already headed to final resolution by the U.S Supreme Court. Conway said he’s going to put Kentucky first and attack Kentucky problems. P’Pool and Conway also sparred over illegal methamphetamine labs and whether psuedoephedreine, an over-the-counter cold medication, should be changed to a prescription-only medication. P’Pool said he would rather see a lifetime ban on meth traffickers from buying the medication than punish “soccer moms” who need drugs commonly sold as Sudafed for their families. Conway said the problem is that meth labs have proliferated around Kentucky and have the worst impact on children who are in homes where adults are using hazardous chemicals to produce meth. Conway noted that he joined U.S. Representative Hal Rogers, R-Somerset, in calling for the medication to be restricted to prescription only even though it’s not popular with most consumers.