Kentucky political blogger Jim Higdon reports on a response from the Rand Paul campaign to a question about his stance on the construction of an Islamic community center at a location in Lower Manhattan formerly occupied by a Burlington Coat Factory:

Given all the bad crazy going around regarding allegedly small-government conservatives trying to dictate New York City zoning laws in regard to the proposed lower Manhattan mosque, which has been intentionally mislabeled as the “Ground Zero Mosque” for greater effect upon the ignorant and willfully ignorant — MCL wondered how the Kentucky senate candidates feel about it.

Dr. Rand Paul’s new spokesperson, Gary Howard, sent us this quick note:

We are focused on this race and the issues affecting Kentucky. We don’t want New York intervening in our local Kentucky issues, and we don’t look to interfere with New York’s local issues.