Santa Hates Moscow MItch, Too.
Sunday, December 22, 2019
Saturday, December 14, 2019
KY Repugs Turn on Bevin; Demand Investigation
Could just be bullshit, given that the new Attorney General is a repug and might just decline to investigate.
Could be they're just piling on a loser they never liked anyway.
But it could be a sign that some repug legislators are willing to turn on a trump wannabe once he stops being useful.
From the Courier:
Kentucky Senate President Robert Stivers is calling on the U.S. Attorney's Office to investigate the pardons issued by former Gov. Matt Bevin.The Courier Journal first reported Wednesday that Bevin issued hundreds of pardons during his last days in office. Those pardoned included a man who was convicted of raping a 9-year-old in Kenton County and other convicted killers."From what we know of former Governor Bevin's extreme pardons and commutations, the Senate Republican Majority condemns his actions as a travesty and perversion of justice," Stivers said. "Our citizens, and especially the crime victims and their families, deserve better."Stivers' statement came hours after two Democratic legislators, Senate Democratic Floor Leader Morgan McGarvey and state Rep. Chris Harris called on Attorney General-elect Daniel Cameron to appoint an independent special prosecutor to investigate potential criminal wrongdoing involving Bevin's pardon of Patrick Brian Baker.
Yeah. Bevin pardoned a motherfucker who committed a vicious murder by beheading because the motherfucker's family gave him money.The brother and sister-in-law of Baker, who was convicted of a homicide and other crimes in a 2014 Knox County home invasion, raised $21,500 at a political fundraiser last year to help retire debt from Bevin’s 2015 gubernatorial campaign. That money could go straight to Bevin since he had loaned his campaign money.
Tell me again how evil and corrupt Democratic officials are.
Sunday, December 8, 2019
Saturday, December 7, 2019
The Other Booker
Cory's treading water in the Presidential primary, unfortunately. But there's another Booker in Kentucky who's making a play to unseat Moscow Mitch.
It’s been about four months since Charles Booker, the Democratic state representative from Louisville who has formed an exploratory committee for a U.S. Senate run, drove to Harlan County to throw his support behind protesting coal miners camped out along a set of railroad tracks.He's sincere, more natural and comfortable on the stump than Amy McGrath, and oh, yeah, he's African-American.
The experience, he said, was transformative.
At the time, a group of out-of-work miners had occupied a railroad line used to haul coal from a Harlan County mine. They were protesting their former employer, Blackjewel LLC., for issuing bad checks to hundreds of Kentucky miners and laying them off with virtually no notice.
Booker was one of many Kentucky politicians to visit the protest. Others included Democrats Amy McGrath and Mike Broihier, Booker’s would-be primary opponents.
“I think what that inspired in me is that Kentuckians are ready to work for the change that we need to see, even if that means to be uncomfortable and to stand up and speak out,” Booker said.
“It changed my life, for sure,” he said.
On Wednesday, Booker was back in Eastern Kentucky, taking questions from a small crowd of voters at a restaurant in Whitesburg with the hope of gaining some notoriety in a region where few people know his name.
No More White Guys.
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