Leaders of the Republican Party of Kentucky break ground on an expansion of the party’s Frankfort headquarters. (Kentucky Lantern photo by McKenna Horsley)
FRANKFORT — What speakers hailed as “the house that Mitch built” will be doubling in size — thanks to more than $3 million from special interest donors and a change of state law in 2017 that legalized such donations.
A slew of prominent Kentucky Republicans joined U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to break ground Thursday on an expansion of the party’s headquarters which is named for McConnell.
The Republican Party of Kentucky has been headquartered for 50 years in an old house about four blocks down the hill from the Kentucky Capitol.
McConnell and other speakers said the building’s expansion symbolizes the growth of their party over those five decades as Republicans gained political dominance in Kentucky, a change that many credit in no small part to McConnell’s leadership and fundraising.