Yesterday, the Republican Party of Kentucky broke ground on its new headquarters in Frankfurt after 50 years of using a house as headquarters.

The party is able to build a new headquarters thanks to more than $3 million from special interest donors and a 2017 change of state law that legally is those donations.

The headquarters is named after the man who's been the state party's leader for more than 40 years, a man many credit for turning Kentucky from blue to red.

I remember going into my race in 1984 with not one single statewide race with a Kentuckian in Senate race in 16 years.

I filed.

That's how bleak the landscape was.

But I was determined to try to change all that and turned out to be a hell of a lot tougher than I thought I was going to be.

Even my mother didn't think I was going to win.

We break ground today on the house that Mitch built and trust that you will hold this moniker as one of your greatest artists.

It's been a long and winding and bumpy road, and a lot has changed in this building.

Not only the same changing political landscape.

I remember walking in this building when there was ice hanging from the ceilings.

I walked in here when there were space heaters.

There was the first wooden work.

I walked in here when there was a portal look out back because the plumbing was shut off.

But one thing that has not changed along the way is the steadfast leadership of leadership.

I talk to legislators like myself from other states and guys, most U.S. senators don't come to events like this.

They don't have a PAC that supports state legislators.

Elections in their state capitals.

They don't they don't have U.S. senators who give them advice and resources to help win their races.

And that's just one of the many reasons we are blessed to have Mitch McConnell here in Kentucky.

And it's totally appropriate that we're going to continue to build upon the house that Mitch built.

This is not just a groundbreaking for a building.

This is a ground breaking for the future dominance of our values and our policies in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

I couldn't be prouder at this stage of my career to look at the Kentucky Republican Party today.

It's a great experience to watch that grow and develop over the years and for whatever a role played in that.

Thanks for the compliments that are really deserved.

A whole lot of people deserve the credit.

Republican Party of Kentucky spokesman Andrew Westbury told the Kentucky Lantern that he was not certain when the project will be completed.