Looks like Gov Steve Beshear has inherited a budget crisis from Ernie Fletcher. Why is it so hard for people to balance a checkbook? Don’t spend more than you make. Its economics 101. Mark Hebert believes the problems are even worse than we are hearing about.
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Fletcher’s gambling focus yet to pay off By Ryan Alessi HERALD-LEADER POLITICAL WRITER The all-anti-casino-all-the-time message from Gov. Ernie Fletcher’s re-election campaign has worked brilliantly in one respect: it has so far dominated the governor’s race.Fletcher’s first two campaign commercials and most of his speeches have been about gambling. [...]
Want to hear more from our candidates for Governor? WKYX in paducah hosted a debate between the candidates.
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ADUCAH, Ky. (AP) - Republican Governor Ernie Fletcher and Democratic challenger Steve Beshear sparred over casino gambling, health care and pardoning powers in a lively radio debate this morning.
POLL: Preston-Osborne Kentucky Gubernatorial
A new Preston-Osborne statewide survey
of 600 registered voters, “selected at random from a list of those who
have voted in at least three of the past five general elections” in Kentucky
(conducted 7/25 through 8/2 for The Lane Report) finds Steve Beshear
leading incumbent [...]
Fletcher is still getting beat up in the polls. Could this be a sign of the final few months.
FRANKFORT –
All summer, SurveyUSA — an automated polling service — has shown Democratic candidate for governor Steve Beshear with more than a 20-point lead over Republican Gov. Ernie Fletcher.Some of Fletcher’s [...]
The Herald Leader is reporting that former Vice Mayor of Lexington Mike Scanlon is hosting a fundraiser. Usually, fundraisers for politicians are not a new thing. Here is the twist Scanlon is a Republican and the fundraiser is for Steve Beshear. You already know that Steve Beshear is the Democratic [...]
Great Article from Larry Dale Keeling outlining the Special Session request of Gov Ernie.
Special session donation to Fletcher
[...]Michael Duncan is now being investigated by the Kentucky Personnel Board over his hiring.The Pol Watchers reports
The state Personnel Board voted 5-1 today to initiate an investigation into the hiring of Michael Duncan, the Transportation Cabinet’s former Chief Deputy Inspector General.
In an odd twist, the vote comes [...]
Great AP article about the divisive issue of Unions in Kentucky not endorsing Lunsford-Stumbo campaign. It really is too bad that Stumbo chose to join up with this campaign.
Several unions lining up against Lunsford in governor’s race BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press
The courier journal has a nice piece on Billy Harpers lack of ideas in Kentucky Government
How gubernatorial candidate Billy Harper reconciles cheerleading for
education, while pledging to veto any new state taxes, is hard to
figure.Kentucky’s education system is starved, at all levels, for the
kind [...]
More from the hillbilly report. Does anyone else think its a bit early for the Governors race in Kentucky? Kentucky Politics being what they are I think we should let everyone run for 2 weeks before the vote day and thats it. Not 6 months, 12 months or more. You [...]
Who said politics wasn’t funny.
via the Hillbilly Report
Courier-Journal reports that Jonathan Miller is challenging his opponents to tell about their money raised. The key to this election cycle will be honesty and integrity in government.
We Say: Good Job Jonathan. Kentucky needs honest government!
[...]Does Anne Northup Running for governor make sense? Will she be better than Ernie? She has the backing of some High Ranking Republicans in the state.
This is going to be a interesting year
[...]–AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl
–AZ-01: Rick Renzi
–AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth
–CA-04: John Doolittle
–CA-11: Richard Pombo
–CA-50: Brian Bilbray
–CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave
–CO-05: Doug Lamborn
–CO-07: Rick O’Donnell
–CT-04: Christopher Shays
–FL-13: Vernon Buchanan
–FL-16: Joe Negron
–FL-22: Clay Shaw
–ID-01: Bill Sali
–IL-06: Peter Roskam
–IL-10: Mark Kirk
–IL-14: [...]
The lexington herald leader is getting ready to publish a 4 part series on Mitch McConnell. Will they find anything useful out about one this countries most powerful politicians?
Goto Kentucky.com to find out.
[...]Will Mitch McConnell become the majority leader of the united states senate? That is the question quite a few people are asking. Coming up in Nov we may find out. How will this affect the overall split of the republican party?
[...]The Bluegrass Policy Blog has a breakdown of the pork in the budget. They want Gov Fletcher to Veto some of this portk. Hopefully, he will take notice.
Here are some great examples. 250,000 for a barn?
$250,000 for the Kentucky Japan Friendship Garden
$250,000 for barns [...]
“We’re paying our monthly mortgage with our credit card,” said Sen. Julian Carroll, D-Frankfort.
That sentimate is held by several state representatives concerning the Kentucky Budget that was recently sent to the House for approval. The budget adds record debt to Kentucky in a [...]
Another excellent article from the bluegrassreport. Lets talk about why the mainstream media does not point out the real faults of our leaders. One year they cannot pass a budget another year they wont tell you about it. I thought the government worked for [...]
Mark Nickolas from the BluegrassReport has a column in the LEO weekly. Here is his a excerpt concerning Horse Racing in Kentucky.
Last week, I got to deliver my very first thoroughbred foal on our
small Kentucky horse farm. Our mare gave birth to a healthy [...]
Governor Fletcher supports adding a Federal Research Lab near Somerset,Ky. they site some wonderful numbers on job creation, economic improvement etc. Hopefully, it will happen like they claim it will.
FRANKFORT, Ky. – Governor Ernie Fletcher along with Congressman Hal Rogers (R-Somerset), state cabinet secretaries, [...]
To prepare for this threat, the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security is developing two earthquake exercises in 2006. One exercise will cover Morehead in the east – the same area as the 1812 quake. [...]
In a really sad state of affairs. It has taken several recent mine disasters for the Kentucky Government to wake up and start to look seriously at mine safety. Why does it always take tragedy to enact common sense from the government
via kentucky.gov
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Jan. 24, 2006) - A [...]
A excerpt
Q: Concerning the hiring investigation, you are to appoint two
special justices to the Supreme Court to hear the case about how far
the probe can go. What type of person are [...]
Bluegrassreport.org Still Drinking the Kool Aid
Excerpt Below
Though the job approval ratings of this corrupt and disgraceful Fletcher-Pence Administration has dipped into Paul Patton territory as he has lost the support of [...]
The giant political mess in Washington has hit the state of Kentucky! According to this article from the associate press Senators and a Congresseman accepted money from Jack Abramoff.
Hopefully the country will now wake up to the political corruption caused by lobbying. For too many years our Government [...]
With the General Assembly about to convene for its 2006 regular session, the online sites where Kentucky citizens can track their senators’ and representatives’ votes have increased from none a year ago to two.One will be an official site produced by legislative staff. The other site-maintained by a former [...]
James Carr is leaving the democratic party This is after being elected last year to his first term. Now the real problem is not that he is idealogically in tune with republicans. The real problem is that he is no longer the same person that was elected by the [...]
I am all for protecting the assets that the state of Kentucky has in the form of gambling. While I understand the Lt. Governors position that he must follow Fletcher lead. I disagree that this is the only position. According to the article Kentuckians already send close to 200 million [...]
Do you want to know whats going on in Kentucky State Government? Keep checking back here for future rants!
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