This week, instead of addressing the major issue of COMPREHENSIVE TAX REFORM, Steve Beshear spent 2:22 talking about a text message ban:
Because that is clearly the most pressing issue Kentucky faces.
[...]Heh:
Gov. Steve Beshear
The Democratic governor and coal enthusiast fired mining official Ron Mills in November without giving a reason. Mills, former head of the state’s mine permit division, had been trying to scuttle permits for mining jobs by Alliance Resource Partners, the Tulsa, Okla.-based company whose political connections run deep [...]
Gas Station Governor Steve Beshear’s 2009 Christmas card has been released:
The interior of the card reads: “Suck It, Kentucky! No Tax Reform!”
All kidding aside? It’s a nice, modest card. And this year there’s no uproar about wasted money because it’s paid for by the re-election [...]
Dear USPS/Frankfort Capitol staff: Thanks for losing the Golden Poo Awards recently shipped to Governor Steve Beshear and Lt. Governor Daniel Mongiardo.
Aww, today’s Rand Paul scandal that I gave Joe has gone national. And the story is terrible. Maybe now the press in Kentucky will pay attention. [The Hill]
Crit [...]
FRANKFORT — Gov. Steve Beshear signed an executive order Wednesday to prohibit state employees from text messaging when driving government-owned vehicles.
He said agency heads may exempt from the order state workers who use text messaging for law enforcement, security or emergencies.
During a news conference [...] 
FRANKFORT --- Despite his previous ties to the payday loan industry, Gov. Steve Beshear said Tuesday that he would back a proposal that would cap interest rates for short-term lending at 36 percent.
Beshear worked as a lobbyist for the industry in 1998 and held [...] Gov. Steve Beshear says this isn’t a good time for comprehensive tax reform.
It wasn’t a good time in 2002, when economist William Fox’s report to the General Assembly showed how Kentucky’s tax structure was no longer keeping pace with changes in the economy or the state’s needs. And it hasn’t [...]
No wonder Jefferson County Public Schools superintendent Sheldon Berman wanted to keep his board review (illegally) secret. Things haven’t been all puppies and rainbows for Shelly, despite his lies otherwise, it seems. [The ‘Ville Voice]
Ronnie Ellis is right. The special election wasn’t good news for Steve Beshear or gambling. [...]
This week Papaw Beshear spends 3:12 reviewing 2009:
Leaner, more ethical, transparent state government?
WHAT?
My heart just skipped several beats.
Please discuss post-haste!
[...]
Sure, we’re all thinking about Steve Beshear’s latest drama with a coal executive doing lobbying without being registered to lobby.
But let’s hop back about a year.
Remember Phil Osborne? Turns out he had a bit of a similar difficulty with a different industry.
Excerpts from a September 21, 2008 Courier-Journal [...]
Steve Beshear was not the favorite pick of the democrats in 2007, but among the field he was seen as the least "undesirable" a long time democratic source in Frankfort told me. "Anybody could have won against the republicans that year," he said,"and Beshear was our safe harbor."
But Beshear took [...]
Word from Bardstown is that republican state senate candidate Jimmy Higdon has defeated his much better funded democratic opponent in a special election today.
Two points of interest. First, despite the efforts of Steve Beshear to change the balance of power in Frankfort, his influence continues to be rejected.
Second, United States [...]
By Jack Brammer - jbrammer@herald-leader.com
FRANKFORT — Central Kentucky voters rejected an attempt by Gov. Steve Beshear to erode Republican control of the state Senate Tuesday, choosing the GOP’s Jimmy Higdon over Democrat Jodie Haydon in a special Senate election.
The election — one [...]
By Jack Brammer - jbrammer@herald-leader.com
FRANKFORT — Gov. Steve Beshear said he sees no reason to investigate the recent firing of a state mining regulator who blames political pressure from the coal industry for his dismissal.
Beshear said he is not aware of anyone in his [...]
FRANKFORT — Gov. Steve Beshear said Monday that he could not rule out the possibility of layoffs as he cobbles together a two-year budget proposal that could be the most austere in recent history.
Beshear, in a wide-ranging interview with reporters on Monday, said the [...] What is it with the Beshear Misadministration constantly looking worse than Ernie Fletcher’s hot mess of a failed administration?
Check the latest from John Cheves:
Gov. Steve Beshear’s administration overruled its top mine permitting official last year to “accommodate the coal interests” and reinstate a policy the official said was illegal, [...]
Gas Station Governor Steve Beshear is holding a press conference at 10:00 A.M. this morning in Shelbyville at the Cooperative Extension Office. Wonder if the press will ask him why he is such a failure of a governor? Somebody needs to hammer the tax reform issue and somebody needs to [...]
I once had a fever dream like this:
