By Capitol News Connection
Washington, DC – Earmarks appeal to local voters, but their significance can be misleading. Kentucky Republican Senator Mitch McConnell is being challenged this year by businessman Bruce Lunsford. On the campaign trail McConnell has been touting a twenty million dollar earmark he secured in this year's budget. The earmark is for the cleanup of mustard and nerve gas at Richmond's Bluegrass Army Depot. McConnell says if Kentucky lawmakers! don't clean it up no one will.