Posts Tagged ‘steve beshear’
Source: rightwingthinking.info via Robert on Pinterest On Ronald Reagan’s birthday, let it be known 40 states choose to recognize his birthday. It’s not a holiday or anything. It’s just a note that someone very important to this country was born on this date. Eight states choose to intentionally ignore his birthday. It’s kind of [...]
Tags: Arkansas, Delaware, deval patrick, hawaii, honor, Jack Markell, John Kitzhaber, kentucky, Mark Dayton, Massachusetts, Mike Beebe, Minnesota, Neil Abercrombie, oregon, partisan, Peter Shumlin, petty, Politics, president, reagan, ronald reagan day, steve beshear, vermont
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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
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Daniel Mongiardo has announced he is running against incumbant Kentucky Senator Jim Bunning. Now, Bunning’s been considered vulnerable since a little before the Iron Age. He keeps making goofy comments. For some reason, he just keeps winning. Mongiardo is on a roll. He lost to Steve Beshear in the primary, but teamed up as his [...]
Tags: blago, daniel mongiardo, fred yang, Garin-Hart-Yang, jim bunning, kentucky, Senate, steve beshear
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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 [...]
Tags: budget, constitution, democrat, donation, Ethics, governor, impeach, kentucky, lawyer, steve beshear, veto
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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
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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
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We had an election last night here in Kentucky. This is how MSNBC interpreted it: Cyclist Lance Armstrong and Kentucky’s new governor were among the few people who could get voters to embrace change on a day they seemed inclined to re-elect incumbents and reject ballot measures calling for new proposals. I tired long ago [...]
Tags: change, democrat, ernie-fletcher, governor, kentucky, Media, media bias, National Politics, republican, status-quo, steve beshear
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