FRANKFORT — Two more big contributions this summer from special interests — $100,000 from Bean Suntory and $75,000 from Boeing — brought the total raised by the Republican Party of Kentucky to expand its state headquarters to $4.2 million.

That money was raised over the past three years — an effort nearly totally funded by massive contributions from a mere 21 donors, nearly all of them corporations or other entities with significant lobbying presences in Washington and/or Frankfort.

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