But some voters said they liked the way things were going and stuck with Barr.
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Mike Bickers liked where Barr stood on taxes and immigration issues. He said he was also turned off by the Brett Kavanaugh hearings during his Supreme Court nomination process.
Barr focused heavily on negative TV ads and large rallies featuring Trump and his allies. Yarmuth has said he is in line to become House Budget Committee chairman if Democrats take control of a majority of seats in the House. Thomas Massie won another term in the 4th District. Massie, a deficit hawk who often calls for government spending cuts, was first elected to Congress in Massie has been critical of Democrats and Republicans for what he considers excessive spending. The conservative lawmaker has also been at the forefront of efforts to revive industrial hemp production in Kentucky.
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Ron Lewis chose to retire minutes before the deadline to file for re-election. Guthrie has easily won re-election since then in the southwest Kentucky district. Comer, who comes from a farming family, introduced legislation last year supporting the growing of industrial hemp. In , Comer was a front-runner for the Republican nomination for governor, but he lost to Matt Bevin by 83 votes. Bevin would go on to win the general election.
Comer served a partial term in after Republican Ed Whitfield left his seat early. It also must be made in the United States, distilled at proof or less and aged at least two years.
The more I learned about bourbon, the more I wanted to know. I headed back to my Louisville hotel, the Seelbach Hilton, and asked for a bourbon-tasting session. I took along a Kentucky cousin, Carla Brawner, whose father was once a distillery taster. I have bourbon in my blood. Jerry Slater, maitre d' at the hotel's Oakroom restaurant, obliged us. It's a two-day class that teaches an appreciation for the subtleties of whiskey, particularly bourbon. Slater slid four bottles of premium bourbons onto the polished oak bar: Stagg 15 years old, Would we be able to tell the difference increased aging makes?
Would we recognize the various proofs? Would we be able to walk and talk when we were done? As we sipped and compared, we discussed the elegant year-old Seelbach hotel, which has a bourbon history all its own. Legend has it that F. Scott Fitzgerald was thrown out three times for drunken behavior. He apparently spent enough time here, however, to use the hotel's Grand Ballroom as the setting for Daisy and Tom's wedding in "The Great Gatsby.
I wondered aloud if he'd ever sipped bourbon here. He was holding up a bottle with a familiar bird logo.
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Its flavor is very concentrated. There's sweetness and a vanilla taste. It tasted good, but I wasn't sure I grasped the nuances. We pressed on, sampling the four fine bourbons, ending with the high-powered George T. Again, my face puckered. Slater didn't wait for a comment. The important thing is that you get it to the point where you like it. When you do that, it's smooth and wonderful.
It was time to take a break from bourbon and concentrate on another of Kentucky's pleasures: My first stop the next day was at Churchill Downs racetrack for a peek inside the Derby Museum, billed as the "world's largest equine museum. From there I headed southeast toward Lexington, where horse farms and beautiful country estates have been part of the scenery since the region was settled in Near town, I stopped at the Kentucky Horse Park, where there are daily horse shows and a self-guided farm tour.
Then I rambled off the main highway onto country lanes. I'd been impressed with the low cost of living when I arrived in Kentucky: But in horse country, homes worth more than a million dollars are common, although this price typically includes much more land and square footage than is found in similarly priced West Coast homes.
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No visit to the bluegrass region, named for the tint of the grass, is complete without a stop at a horse farm. I chose Ashford Farm in Versailles Kentuckians pronounce it ver-sales , where Derby winners Fusaichi Pegasus and Thunder Gulch are among the resident stallions. They are the glamour boys of the industry, living in stables with polished oak walls and chandeliers and walking on rubberized mats to reduce the chance of a fall. During mating season, "they're busy boys," said groom Larry Anthony.
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Many of the horse farms in the region -- there are about -- welcome visitors. But it's important to call ahead, book a visit with a guided tour group or hire a private guide. Whiskey has been made on the site since At the end of the tour, peach tea and bourbon balls were waiting. The Kentucky Legislature approved sampling at distilleries in , but not all have implemented it. The distillery is in town and is more industrial looking than its competitors.