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Last year Kentucky elected a new governor to replace the one we had. The one we had had been accused of inappropriate hiring practices. That never was resolved since the person making the charges decided to drop the charges so he could run for governor, and lose.

So, Kentucky ( not me ) elected a guy with a shady past of representing both sides on a huge bankuptcy case a few years ago. Not terribly ethical, but Democrats particularly felt his unethical past wasn’t that big a deal.

So, his first session amounted to getting basically nothing accomplished. Even he was disappointed at how little he got accomplished. They did however, manage to pass the budgets.

Or so we thought.

After the veto deadline had passed, Steve Beshear decided to veto the road spending bill. Now, since this was in the spring, it was something I shrugged off as another attempt to assure that nothhing got done.

But then he did something strange, he decided he would enact his own road spending budget.

Now, besides being illegal, it strikes me as being kinda unethical. Steve Beshear by profession is a lawyer. He has dealt with several huge cases. The Kentucky Central bankruptcy probably was the biggest, and I would imagine the most complex. So, I don’t understand how he is interpreting these instructions:

No bill shall be considered for final passage unless the same has been reported by a committee and printed for the use of the members. Every bill shall be read at length on three different days in each House, but the second and third readings may be dispensed with by a majority of all the members elected to the House in which the bill is pending. But whenever a committee refuses or fails to report a bill submitted to it in a reasonable time, the same may be called up by any member, and be considered in the same manner it would have been considered if it had been reported. No bill shall become a law unless, on its final passage, it receives the votes of at least two-fifths of the members elected to each House, and a majority of the members voting, the vote to be taken by yeas and nays and entered in the journal: Provided, Any act or resolution for the appropriation of money or the creation of debt shall, on its final passage, receive the votes of a majority of all the members elected to each House.

Those instructions are from the Kentucky Constitution. People have understood those instructions clearly clearly since September 28, 1891.

The President of the Senate has filed suit against Beshear for circumventing the Constitution.

So, what does Beshear do to assure people his ethics are so much better than the person he replaced by running a campaign on ethics?  He hires his largest campaign contributor and former partners.

This is what you get for voting for “change” without figuring out what hat change might be.

Now, by definition, this could lead to an impeachment process. I’m sure Beshear would be thrilled at the thought of how much his partners who donate to him could make on that lawsuit.

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