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	Scotty Baesler
		Baesler was born in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1941, and graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1963 and from law school there in 1966.
		In 1992, Baesler was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for the 6th Congressional district of Kentucky after 14-year Republican incumbent Larry Hopkins retired; Hopkins had never recovered from being heavily defeated by Jones in the 1991 governor's race.
		Baesler won a narrow primary victory over Louisville businessman Charlie Owen and Lieutenant Governor Steve Henry, but was very narrowly defeated in the general election by fellow congressman Jim Bunning, a Republican.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Scotty_Baesler (423 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Scotty Baesler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Baesler is married to Scotty Baesler, a former 6th District congressman and Lexington mayor.
		Scotty Baesler, who was Lexington's mayor from 1982 to 1993 and a U.S. representative from 1993 to 1998, said the vote is "another sign of the lack of influence of tobacco, even in tobacco country," in a state in which he estimates there are 40,000 to 50,000 tobacco farmers, including himself.
		Baesler is married to Scotty Baesler, a former congressman and Lexington mayor.
	www.zoominfo.com /Search/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=2903670 (829 words)

	All Immigration Votes of Representative Scotty Baesler
		Baesler’s vote was important; the reformers were only 28 votes short of approving the end of chain migration.
		Baesler’s vote was on the side of America’s farm workers and on the side of limiting illegal immigration.
		Baesler was among those who contended that there are more than enough Americans trained in nursing to do the job if the pay and working conditions are appropriate.
	profiles.numbersusa.com /improfile.php3?DistSend=KY&VIPID=342 (1287 words)

	Scotty Baesler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry Scott Baesler (1941-) is a Democratic politician and former Representative from Kentucky.
		Baesler barely won his own district, which came as something of an embarrassment.
		Fletcher had lost badly to Baesler in 1996 after Baesler painted him as an extremist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scotty_Baesler (455 words)

	senate0
		Scotty Baesler has not passed a single bill since he has been elected to the Congress of the United States.
		Baesler, who supported NAFTA in 1993 but later characterized that vote as a mistake, said most of the Fruit of the Loom jobs left Kentucky because of GATT, not NAFTA.
		Baesler said he would vote against giving the president ''fast-track'' authority unless it includes side agreements that protect labor and the environment.
	www.kypost.com /news/1998/senate070898.html (904 words)

	Scorry Baesler for U.S. Senate '98
		Baesler is the only Democrat now in the race who "lead[s) Bunning." He "stands an excellent chance of retaining the United States Senate seat being vacated by Wendell Ford."
		Scotty Baesler leads by 5 percentage points (well outside the margin of effort) among all voters surveyed, and an astounding 8% among definite voters.
		Scotty Baesler is strongly positioned to beat Jim Bunning in the general election.
	www.cynthianaky.com /dwc/baesler.htm (400 words)

	Ace Magazine/Cover Story / Senate Race 98 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The choice between Congressmen Jim Bunning or Scotty Baesler for left leaning types is somewhat akin to the choice of hanging or lethal injection to death row inmates.
		Baesler also voted for prohibiting federal needle exchange programs, despite the fact that all statistics indicate no increased drug use, yet dramatic decreases of HIV transmission (according to the CDC, 18 percent of HIV infections are due to intravenous drug use).
		Baesler, who believes in providing "equal opportunity in education," notes that the GOP has asked to cut spending on education, which over seven years would result in a $520 million dollar cut in Kentucky alone.
	www.aceweekly.com /acemag/backissues/981028/cover_senate_981028.html (1741 words)

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		FRANKFORT - Congressional candidate Scotty Baesler has a second contract with a state agency as a hearing officer besides a consulting job with the governor's office.
		A spokesman for the Board of Claims said Baesler is among the most efficient and prolific of the six hearing officers.
		Baesler, a former district judge, is paid $85 per hourfor hearing-officer duties.
	www.kypost.com /news/2000/scotty071400.html (218 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Scotty Baesler presents his side of the education debate to an intimate crowd in the Student Center yesterday.
		Baesler answered questions and solicited opinions from a small group of students yesterday in the Student Center.
		Baesler said that providing funding is the federal government's primary role in higher education.
	www.kernel.uky.edu /1996/spring/0411/n31f.html (442 words)

	straub0 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Speaking of Baesler, in an ironic twist, he is now soliciting President Clinton's support, particularly as it regards fundraising, after snubbing the president as anti-tobacco when he visited Carrollton a few months ago.
		Baesler's name recognition was markedly better and Owen outspent him by more than 5-to-1, yet Henry held the west and performed well in Louisville.
		As Baesler told supporters, his wife, Alice, had taken the opportunity to remind him that there was ''a lot of hay to mow and tobacco to get out'' on the working family farm outside Lexington.
	www.cincypost.com /opinion/1998/straub052998.html (619 words)

	Campaign Finance Issue Could Be Key To Expensive Kentucky Battle - May 9, 1998
		The race could pit 6th District Rep. Scotty Baesler, a pro-overhaul Democrat who supported the effort to force House leaders to bring campaign finance legislation to the floor, against 4th District Rep. Jim Bunning, an anti-overhaul Republican who counts McConnell as one of his most enthusiastic backers.
		But first, Baesler must overcome a campaign finance obstacle of his own: He is facing a serious May 26 primary challenge from an independently wealthy cable executive who already has spent about $3 million, most of it his own money, just on radio and television advertising.
		Bunning's and Baesler's Senate hopes have left two competitive open-seat races in the 4th and 6th districts, where the candidates had raised more than $3.5 million combined by the end of March, more than twice the amount Bunning and Baesler spent on their 1996 campaigns.
	edition.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1998/05/12/cq/kentucky.html (1725 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Baesler said that besides the nature of the ads, they are sending a false and distorted message.
		Baesler said he was anticipating a tough race against Bunning but wasn't expecting such a negative campaign.
		Baesler said the battleground in the Nov. 3 election continues to be western Kentucky and Louisville.
	www.kentuckycrossroads.com /notebook/98sun10d.html (5250 words)

	Is the presidential visit worth it?
		Baesler, a member of the U.S. House, is going to raise thousands of badly needed dollars at a $500-a-pop downtown Louisville fund-raiser.
		Baesler, the GOP's House majority has passed a "watered down version" of a bill designed to reform health maintenance organizations, or HMOs.
		Baesler said the Republican bill limits the medications that can be prescribed by a physician, allows "drive-through mastectomies" and does not allow women to choose their obstetrician or gynecologist as a primary care doctor.
	www.enquirer.com /columns/crowley/1998/08/080998pcr.html (714 words)

	CNN/SI - More Sports - Election '98: Ventura slams competition in Minnesota; ex-Phillie Bunning wins in Kentucky - ...
		In Kentucky, Bunning, a Republican, was a winner over Democrat Scotty Baesler, a former Kentucky basketball player, in a heated duel between state representatives.
		Baesler had picked up an endorsement from former Kentucky basketball coach (now coach of the Boston Celtics) Rick Pitino, while Bunning was supported by University of Louisville coach Denny Crum.
		Baesler, a former mayor of Lexington who played basketball under legendary Adolph Rupp, is a lawyer and a tobacco farmer -- the only tobacco farmer in Congress.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /more/news/1998/11/03/sports_elections (766 words)

	Spotlight on key races in 2000 - October 14, 1999
		Democratic political insiders have been citing Baesler for months as one of their top recruits for 2000, and they note that his popularity in the district makes this a top takeover target.
		Baesler, a tobacco farmer and a former mayor of Lexington, held this seat for three terms before giving it up to run for the Senate in 1998.
		Baesler, one of the leaders of the moderate Blue Dog faction of the House of Representatives, narrowly lost to Republican Jim Bunning in the 1998 Senate race, but rather than fade into the woodwork, he has decided to try to regain his old House seat.
	www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/10/14/rothenberg (1192 words)

	Bunning ads low pieces of manipulation
		Baesler surprised and even shocked a lot of political watchers, Democratic officials and reporters with a speech that many described as over-the-top.
		Baesler, a former University of Kentucky basketball player, looked like he was trying to guard it.
		Baesler has since said it was a mistake, but he voted for NAFTA, which is blamed for the loss of thousands of jobs in southern Kentucky to Central America.
	www.enquirer.com /columns/crowley/1998/10/101198pcr.html (823 words)

	A neck-and-neck Senate race in Kentucky - September 29, 1998
		Chugging along in western Kentucky in one of the closest Senate races in the country, Baesler is appealing to tradition.
		Today, Baesler is the state's only Democratic congressman and he is trying to hold on to its only Democratic Senate seat, being vacated by Wendell Ford after 24 years.
		Bunning attacks Baesler for once favoring a cut in future cost-of-living increases, even though he is not opposed to such cuts himself.
	www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/09/29/kentucky.senate (702 words)

	Online NewsHour: Tobacco Industry Responds -- April 9, 1998
		SCOTTY BAESLER: The problem we're having in Washington is that they're raisin' the ante to the manufacturers from where they were going to pay about $360 billion; now they're talking about $600 [billion], and that's not going to happen.
		SCOTTY BAESLER: The good part about it is the fact that people who want to produce tobacco will be able to produce it, and the most important part is they'll do it under a program.
		SCOTTY BAESLER: There's a certain conflict, but I think what you've got to--I strongly support the legislation to keep young people away from it.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/congress/jan-june98/tobacco_4-9.html (1617 words)

	straub100298 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		That ongoing argument is clearest in Kentucky, where Rep. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., of Southgate, and Rep. Scotty Baesler, D-Ky., of Lexington, are facing off to replace the retiring Senate Minority Whip Wendell Ford, D-Ky., of Owensboro.
		Bunning has attacked Baesler for voting against the so-called 90-10 Plan, which sets aside 90 percent of the anticipated $1.6 billion budget surplus over the next 10 years to fix the system with the rest going to tax cuts.
		Baesler simply supported President Clinton's position to refrain from doling out any of the surplus - in tax cuts or otherwise - until the program's institutional problems are addressed.
	www.cincypost.com /opinion/1998/straub100298.html (643 words)

	April 26, 2000
		Comparing the text of two ads, attached as Appendix 1, from the 1998 Kentucky Senate race between Jim Bunning and Scotty Baesler sharply illustrates the consequences of retaining a regulatory standard that has no relevance in the real world of campaigning.
		Yet the ad sponsored by Baesler is treated as electioneering because it came from a candidate, while the ad sponsored by the Democratic Party passes for an issue ad.
		Scotty Baesler sided with working families and voted against it.
	rules.senate.gov /hearings/2000/042600rosen.htm (2822 words)

	BIPAC: Electing Business to Congress
		Challenger Scotty Baesler (D) popular, folksy, well known in Lexington, tobacco farmer ally, now has physicians on his side.
		Baesler had seat for three terms before losing close Senate race in 1998.
		Baesler either mayor or county executive in Lexington for 25 years.
	www.bipac.org /detail.asp?id=115 (1252 words)

	Ace Weekly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Many remember Baesler hanging around that New Democrat crew- the breed of politico whose pandering to business and the middle class has alienated a lot of the groups that have been pulling the donkey lever since the 1930s.
		Fitzpatrick explains: "We [in the firefighters union] addressed Scotty Baesler when he was congressman and asked him to support our issues of collective bargaining and other safety issues for fire fighters," Fitzpatrick said.
		Baesler represented the district in Congress in 1992, 1994 and 1996 before Fletcher took the seat.
	www.aceweekly.com /Backissues_ACEWeekly/000817/cover_story000817.html (2276 words)

	TAP: Vol 11, Iss. 12. Photo Finishes. Jeremy Derfner. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1996 Democrat Scotty Baesler beat Ernie Fletcher handily, but in 1998 Baesler ran for Senate (he eventually lost to Jim Bunning by a single point), and Fletcher won the open seat.
		Baesler will also campaign as a friend to small tobacco farmers, who, unlike Fletcher, will refuse to accept contributions from tobacco manufacturers who cut quotas on local farmers.
		Fletcher has responded by accusing Baesler of "trying to turn manufacturers into a scapegoat when the blame for tobacco troubles" should go to the Clinton administration.
	www.prospect.org /print/V11/12/derfner-j.html (1284 words)

	N.Y. Senate race still tight - October 20, 1998
		Polling suggests that Bunning and Baesler are in a tight fight, though Republican insiders appear to be more upbeat and optimistic than their Democratic counterparts.
		Baesler's campaign complained bitterly about the ad, arguing that the camera shots and music were intended to make him look like Hitler.
		Baesler, who voted against the Republican impeachment vote, hopes to rally Democrats to his campaign, while Bunning continues to hope that his conservative views and attacks on Baesler will attract conservative Democrats to his campaign.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/analysis/rothenberg/1998/10/20 (944 words)

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