Bevin Bullying Broke Law

Another nickname for our only guv:  Bully Bevin.

Am I the only one who thinks Governor Lying Coward is trying to compete with the Orange Menace?

John Cheves at the Herald:

It was a violation of the Kentucky Open Meetings Act for Gov. Matt Bevin to send state police to a May 19 meeting of the Kentucky Retirement Systems board of trustees and threaten to arrest the board chairman if he participated, Attorney General Andy Beshear said in an opinion released Tuesday.

Bevin sent police with his chief of staff, Blake Brickman, and Personnel Secretary Thomas Stephens to threaten to arrest Thomas K. Elliott, whom Bevin has been trying to remove from the board, and to interfere with board leadership elections scheduled for that day, Beshear said. Several armed troopers stood in the KRS board room during the day’s meeting.

Another board member who was interested in running for chairman, Vince Lang, was warned by Stephens that “the administration would immediately initiate an investigation” if he sought the post, Beshear said. The board decided to postpone its leadership elections because of pressure from the governor’s office and police, Beshear said.

Public agencies must be allowed to conduct open meetings free from harassment, Beshear said in his opinion.

“A behind-closed-door indication of arrest if a board member attempts to participate, or of an investigation of a board member who potentially may seek election as chair, made with the intent to alter decisions or behavior related to a public meeting for public business, violates the mandate that public business not be conducted in secret,” Beshear said.

“Moreover, the presence of multiple law enforcement officers, who can effectuate an arrest, at the request of someone other than the agency head or a quorum of the board, equates to conducting public business through force. Neither scenario has a place in a democratic government that must be open,” he said.

Why does Bully Bevin care about the Board that oversees the state employee retirement system?  Because that board decides how to invest billions of dollars in state worker contributions, and Bevin's billionaire buddies are out there slavering to get their talons into that money.

Read the rest if you care about how Bevin lied in response, and just how infantile he sounds lobbing playground insults at the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.