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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 [...]

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 $58,000. [...]

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 of pointing [...]

Tags: change, democrat, ernie-fletcher, governor, kentucky, Media, media bias, National Politics, republican, status-quo, steve beshear

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