We're less than 30 days from the November election.

And as Kentucky's big ticket ballot item is a constitutional amendment on school choice, one political heavyweight in the state is pumping hundreds of thousands of dollars into state legislative and local races.

I talked with Kentucky Atlanta's McKenna Horsely about this last week.

Well, McKenna, we appreciate your time.

I want to ask you real quickly about a story that your colleague, Tom Loftus, formerly of The Courier Journal, did about Mitch McConnell and his political action committee that is just pummeling thousands, hundreds of thousands, actually dollars into legislative and local races.

Tell us about this.

Yes.

So Senator McConnell's PAC, the Bluegrass Committee PAC, it's a longtime PAC that he's had, is giving the maximum amount of donations it can give to all of the Republican candidates in Kentucky.

So there's 95 candidates between legislative races, Louisville, metro City Council races and two mayoral races.

So each of those counts are getting $2,100 from Senator McConnell.

And Senator McConnell has also given to the Kentucky Federation of Republican Women.

This is something that he's long done as one of the top Republicans in the state to support legislative candidates.

It's something that I think has kind of been his career, Mark, here in Kentucky, particularly with the Republican Party, by supporting these down ballot races.

He's able to build up Republicans and get them into office and keep them there in the future.

Yeah, and this is to compare and contrast how Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear set up a PAC, right.

That was supposed to help funnel money to state legislative candidates.

But it's not seemingly to keep pace with the McConnell operation, correct?

Right.

And, you know, one difference here is that this PAC from Governor Beshear isn't as old as Mitch McConnell's.

So that's one challenge there.

But Beshear, his back, has not donated to any Democratic legislative candidates in the state.

He has gone about and campaigned for other races that have more nationwide importance for Democrats.

So we've seen him on the campaign trail in those areas.

Yeah, and particularly on the on the national programs.

Right.

Pitching, I guess, as a surrogate for Kamala Harris for president.

And so it's interesting.

And he you know, Hadley Duvall was evoked this week or last week on that debate stage from the vice presidential debate.

So Kentucky is continuing to get a lot of national recognition when it comes to this year's election cycle.

Yes.

And this year has campaigned a lot as a here surrogate.

He's even doing an Instagram live with actress Laura Dern last week, which was really interesting to see.

Yeah.

Wow.

And I mean, when you're one of Time magazine's next, right?

I mean, the hits will just keep on coming.

Well, thank you, McKenna.

We appreciate your time.

It's always good to see you.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

November 5th, Election Day is fast approaching, but Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams, a Republican, hopes many Kentuckians vote.

Before then, Adams is launching a $250,000 ad campaign to encourage people to vote early.

The money is from his office.

The campaign will include TV commercials and billboards reminding people they can vote the Thursday, Friday and Saturday before the official Election Day.

On Tuesday, November 5th.

He says if you vote early, the lines will be shorter.

And if you're not registered to vote, well, it's too late to register this election.

The deadline was today.