Posts Tagged ‘governor’
January 26th, 2010 | 2 Comments
A full year into Obama‘s four year term, he’s still passing the buck: “Today’s report from C.B.O. confirms that the recession inherited from the Bush Administration continues to erode the budget’s bottom line,” said Representative John M. Spratt Jr., the Democrat of South Carolina who is chairman of the House Budget Committee. From the start [...]
Tags: budget, bush, congress, democrat, economy, election, governor, harry reid, inherited, John Spratt, Massachusetts, nancy pelosi, new jersey, obama, retire, Senate, spending, virginia
Posted in 2010 Elections, 2010 US Senate Races, Ethics | 2 Comments »
I’m dealing with this right now: Most state agencies could face additional 6 percent budget cuts to help offset a projected $161 million revenue shortfall. Kerri Richardson, spokeswoman for Gov. Steve Beshear, said the administration is now gathering information on the potential impacts of the budget cuts. State Budget Director Mary Lassiter sent letters to [...]
Tags: budget, governor, kentucky, medicaid, program, reform, steve beshear, wall street journal, worst bill ever
Posted in Health Care Debate | No Comments »
Minnesota chose Al Franken to represent them in DC. And we all thought electing a “professional” wrestler as governor was a joke. Everyone knows his SNL stint as the unfunniest of the initial SNLers. But, I bet a lot of people didn’t realize he’s an accomplished author as well. A couple of his tomes: Rush [...]
Tags: Al-Franken, Amy Klobuchar, governor, idiots of the day, jesse ventura, joke, Minnesota, senator
Posted in Idiot of the day | 1 Comment »
In today’s news, we are looking at more Obama appointees. Today’s CNN headline is about his nominee for the US trade representative. Former Dallas mayor Ron Kirk got the nod. He has something in common with several other Obama nominees, he can’t seem to figure out how to pay his taxes correctly. Kirk’s tax returns [...]
Tags: bill-richardson, blago, Blagojevich, cabinet, culture of corruption, Ethics, evasion, governor, harry reid, health and human services, hillary clinton, illinois, kansas, kansas health policy authority, kathleen sebelius, nancy killefer, nancy pelosi, obama, rahm emanuel, roland burris, ron kirk, taxes, tim geithner, tom daschle, whitewater
Posted in Ethics | 1 Comment »
“Well, my understanding is that Governor Palin’s town of Wasilla has, I think, 50 employees. We’ve got 2,500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe $12 million a year. You know, we have a budget of about three times that just for the month. So I think that our ability to manage large [...]
Tags: alaska, barack obama, boat, campaign, congress, election, executive, governor, governor palin, governors, mayor, mccain, president, ronald-reagan, sarah palin, state government, swift, wasilla
Posted in 2008 Presidential Race | No Comments »
Due to not really being terribly glued to the tv over this election, I gotta admit I have been fairly clueless to guessing VP picks. The media throws so many names out so fast, then criticizes the names they threw out themselves, and then writes off the names they threw out themselves. So, the whole [...]
Tags: 2008, alaska, babe-of-the-week, barack, biden, bobby-jindal, bridge-to-nowhere, clinton, condi rice, conservative, governor, green, harry, hillary, hunt, joe, Mitt-Romney, nancy, obama, oil, pawlenty, pelosi, policy, pro-choice, protestant, reid, republican, sarah palin, Vice-President, wasilla
Posted in 2008 Presidential Race | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Tags: budget, constitution, democrat, donation, Ethics, governor, impeach, kentucky, lawyer, steve beshear, veto
Posted in Ethics | No Comments »
A rising star of the Democrat Party, Eliot Spitzer gained fame prosecuting corporations among other things as Attorney General. Now he’s in deep doo-doo. I’m still waiting for Nancy Pelosi to cite him as yet another example of the Democrat Culture of Corruption. Quickie update: Everyone with a keyboard has had something to say about Spitzer. [...]
Tags: attorney general, culture of corruption, democrat, eliot spitzer, governor, nancy pelosi, new york
Posted in Ethics | 2 Comments »
I read this post on Independent Sources and loved it so much I thought I’d run with it here. Namely: 37-year old Arelia Margarita Taveras is an attorney with a serious ethics problem. She also has a gambling problem and lost her law practice, her apartment and her parents’ home, and she owes the IRS [...]
Tags: addiction, arelia taveras, boz scaggs, gambling, governor, kentucky, lawyer, lido shuffle, steve beshear
Posted in Ethics, US Regional Politics | 5 Comments »
The entire time Republican Governor Ernie Fletcher was in office, Attorney General Greg Stumbo dogged him about hiring people based on political patronage. Stumbo even went so far as to file corruption charges and seat a grand jury before dropping the charges so that he could run for governor himself. People of Kentucky bought into [...]
Tags: adam-edelen, applebees, attorney general, crit-luallen, Ethics, governor, homeland-security, jack-conway, kentucky, patronage, steve beshear, US Regional Politics
Posted in Ethics, US Regional Politics | No Comments »