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Democratic candidate for Senate Charles Booker arrived in Paducah on the same day our mailbox belched out an oversized postcard from his opponent's campaign.

"If people say that being out of touch and being a socialist means loving the people of Kentucky, wanting everyone to be healthy, you're tired of political games, you want to do the work of ending poverty, you can call me what you want. But in a few weeks they will call me a US senator and Kentucky will get the change it deserves." Charles Booker in Paducah

In simplest terms, the mailer is sadly too small to be a cat box liner

Is Homeland Security making plans for the troops at Fort Campbell to become convoy security for thousands of trucks carrying corn, soybeans, and or wheat grown in Mid- America to urban processing centers?

This might become the case if the Mississippi River is unable to reopen for an extended time. If river commerce is stopped, then trucks and rail must be used to replace river barges.

10 years ago in 2012, barge traffic on the great river was stopped due to low levels of river.

...In response to a mailer accusing him of being an "out of touch socialist", Booker said:

"If people say that being out of touch and being a socialist means loving the people of Kentucky, wanting everyone to be healthy, you're tired of political games, you want to do the work of ending poverty, you can call me what you want. But in a few weeks they will call me a US senator and Kentucky will get the change it deserves."