Welcome to the three martini lunch.

Grab a stole next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

Three martini's coming up.

So glad you're with us for the Wednesday three martini lunch.

Jim Garrity is away, but keep reading those morning jolts.

He is working while he is away, and you're going to learn a lot about what he's learning overseas here in his place once again today, and as Stetman of independent women. And that's great to have you back. It's always great to be here. Well, usually don't get 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, Annes, and for a while

he was, you know, very tough on spending and debts and, like most libertarians, trying to protect privacy from government snooping

and other things. But then he got into trouble in recent years for bucking Trump on a number

of issues, including the Save America Act. He voted against that. He voted against all the

continuing resolutions. And I know you've got an even

more intense reason for wishing that Thomas Massey would lose in this primary, which he did.

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