Welcome to the last call of the week for the three martini lunch.

This is our weekly recap of the biggest stories we covered this week.

Jim Garrity was away this week and three different and very capable guest hosts filled in.

Ines Stepman of Independent Women, Hillsdale College Radio General Manager, Scott Bertram,

and radio and podcast host Craig Collins.

And we begin with the conversation Annes and I had after Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massey was soundly defeated in his Republican primary.

Well, you usually don't look at massive political in terms of election news in the middle of May, but that's where we are.

It's primary season, of course, in this midterm election year.

And a lot of different primaries happened yesterday. Races in Georgia and Alabama for Senate and

governor and all sorts of other things. But we're going to start in Kentucky. It's also not

often that a single house race gets more national attention and becomes the most expensive house

race ever either.

But that's exactly what happened in Kentucky's fourth district because Thomas Massey,

who's been there quite a while, but has become almost the reliable no vote on the Republican

side in the House of Representatives on a lot of different issues was in the fight of his political

life against a challenger named Ed Galrine, who had the endorsement, of course, of President Trump.

Massey came to Washington a while ago,

and he was kind of the,

seemed like the successor of Ron Paul, Ennis,

and for a while he was, you know,

very tough on spending and debts,

and, like most libertarians,

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