Secretary of State Trey Grayson traveled to the national association of Secretary's of State meeting this week where he was just elected president. After that, however, he made the 3 and one half hour drive over to visit with someone else, Mitch McConnell's former campaign manager Justin Brasell.
The Graysons and the Brasells are friends, and the side trip to Sioux Falls was a short one by comparison to the distance home from Minneapolis, but the visit no doubt increases some speculation as to McConnell's role in Graysons campaign, and what role Brasell might have in the future.
Brasell is running the re-election bid of John Thune who defeated Senate Majority leader Tom Daschle. Brasell ran McConnell's campaign last year where McConnell, the perennially unbeatable candidate, barely eeked out a victory.
But by now Brasell has certainly accumulated a strong portfolio of donor information which could help Trey in the next reporting period since many in Kentucky feel that Grayson's good showing with $600,000 plus raised in the last quarter pretty much tapped out his sources.
It is tougher to predict whether Brasell would leave Thune and return to Kentucky to run a Grayson campaign, but his family did make a home in Park Hills and he is still close with Congressman Geoff Davis who is likely to swamp any comers in the next go around.
Could be that they are just visiting, but the chances that politics will not be discussed are thinner than Obama's qualifications to be president, and that's damned thin.
Good move for Trey to pick Justin's brain. KY is lucky to have him.
Posted by: Boonecounty | July 16, 2009 at 09:30 AM