RIGHT? Haha. Of course he would.
Steve Beshear is skipping the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in Murray (yes, he was invited) but will be speaking in Paducah and Owensboro on the same day. You read it correctly. Steve Beshear is skipping out on the second-largest gathering of Purchase Area Democrats (second only to Fancy Farm)– loyalists and party leaders from across western Kentucky.
This does not make sense – Governor Beshear is passing up the chance to talk to 400 Party leaders and loyalists. The people that he will need to support his future programs, initiatives and campaigns. Coming to Paducah and giving notice on Friday for the faithful to gather there in the middle of a work day is sad planning on the part of his office. Oh, there will be a crowd of retirees and public officials, but it will be nothing like the multi-county gathering at the Curris Center.
One has to wonder if the Governor’s Office knows the distances and the geography involved in getting West Kentuckians together. While McCracken is the largest county by far, it is not as centrally located as Calloway, nor will it have a ready made crowd of well wishers.
Interesting note: Calloway County is Robbie Rudolph’s home turf but went to Beshear-Mongiardo in the 2007 gubernatorial election– even with a hometown boy running with the incumbent. To avoid that area could be considered a slap in the face. Judging by the reaction we’ve received from dozens of Democratic Party leaders in the area, Beshear’s got a problem on his hands.
We thought things were turning around for the better for Governor Steve Beshear but little things like this make us wonder who really calls his shots. So much for us being naive enough to think that the governor’s approval rating couldn’t sink any lower.
UPDATE: Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo will be there. Disaster averted.
5 responses so far ↓
1 editor // Jun 29, 2008 at 9:12 am
We already knew Mongiardo was coming. He may have courtesy title of Gov. – but he ain’t the Governor – Beshear is. Why should Calloway accept a substitute when the Big Guy is 50 miles away?
Follow your line of reasoning out and substitute your home county and that other one to the east.
If the Gov. ducked a Louisville Dem event for an appearance in Lexington, that would be okay with Louisville, right?
2 jake // Jun 29, 2008 at 11:35 am
Wow. Humor and sarcasm get lost on the best of ‘em!
3 TJ // Jun 29, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Jake – I think you needed a “!” to imply sacarsm properly.
Still learning I guess…
4 editor // Jun 29, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Oh, was that sarcasm? Hmmm… I guess getting ignored by Frankfort on a regular basis has diluted my sense of the absurd.
My sincere, abject, groveling apologies, Jake. You are my Snide Hero Man.
5 westkytransplant // Jun 30, 2008 at 3:02 pm
The Gov., is surrounded by idiots! How much money did get from the Purchase area. He should be apologizing to Carol Hubbard for Steve’s personal pick, Rick Johnson, whom Hubbard soundly defeated. He should be thanking those folks down there for uncovering Robbie Rudolph’s use of office to fill Murray State’s board with his buddies, his personal and financial stake in lawsuits againt a MSU, a public institution, while he was in office, and how those folks voted for him in Robbie’s backyard. Alessi, article about is odd timing, the only reason Patton was good was because of who he had around him, (i.e. Crit and others). Did you read that Beshear, you have to have other capable people around you.
If it weren’t for Murray State’s former president, Kern Alexander, a leading expert in U.S. education systems, who came up with KCTCS to keep UK from having a campus on every corner.
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