Comments on: Court Order Released in Case Against Kentucky Farm Bureau For Violating Fairness Ordinance

By: jake

jake — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:32:14 +0000

Fairness has very little to do with this. It’s all Eklof. And his attorney has moved things forward quite a bit.

But C-FAIR & Fairness both are working on something.

By: Buck6

Buck6 — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:28:37 +0000

Been a while, seems like the Fairness board has better things to do?

By: amused

amused — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:26:21 +0000

Farm Bureau might want to find out how many of rural families they insure are headed by gay couples. Farm Bureau does have a very strong voice in Frankfort. Its voice is leveraged by forcing the major agricultural commodity groups to march in step with them. Not to many years ago one of these commodity groups was lead by a gay farmer. He is not out, and not my place to out him. Point is Agriculture is just as full of gay and lesbian people as any other demographic. Sam Moore is a likeable enough fella and would be great as Santa Claus for your next company Christmas Party. He is just not much of a visionary or worldly by any measure. As president of KFB he was one of the statutory members of the Agriculture Development Board in the Governor’s Office of Ag Policy. This Board doled out the 100s of millions of dollars from the national tobacco settlement. Sam Moore and Sam Long headed a strong alliance, and Richie Farmer doesn’t do any thinking unless these two tell him its okay. Nothing got funded by the ADB unless it appealed to one of the Sam’s pet projects. 100′s of millions of dollars down the drain in Kentucky. The myth of subsistence farming was perpetuated as a great way to raise a family in Kentucky. No need for access to affordable health care, higher education or other liberal notions. I guess KFB prefers to keep its customers down on the farm and unenlightened.

If the KRB wanted to help and protect farm families in KY they should start with smoking cessation programs and nutrition education. Unfortunately this would be self defeating for the KFB as the Kentucky agricultural economy is built upon the carcinogenic and debilitating product TOBACCO.

By: BILked

BILked — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:14:16 +0000

I thought Richie Farmer was in charge of the state fair???

By: Judy

Judy — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:41:53 +0000

The Ky Farm Bureau is for the most part an insurance agency which plays fast and loose with people’s rights. They do very little for the farms of Kentucky.
I dropped them years ago but still get letters of an intimidating/threatening nature that my insurance policy with them has lapsed and they will notify the company. (Could they possibly keep such bad records that they do not know whom they insure and whom they don’t? That in itself should send clients running.) Calls to them about the letters get more intimidation. After considering a complaint to the Attorney General I let it go, but this kind of thing should not go on.
Obviously the Ky. Farm Bureau is run by those who are not aware of or who do not respect the law or individual rights.

By: jake

jake — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:58:11 +0000

Meanwhile, the Fairness Campaign is sitting on its hands because Kentucky Farm Bureau controls the State Fair.

Or so I hear.

By: Yellow Dog

Yellow Dog — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:56:16 +0000

Great, great, great day for Kentucky.

I hate to give Louisville credit for anything, but Thank You, River City, for blazing this path.

Steve, Dan, Ben and the rest of you DINOs – this is what REAL progressive politics looks like.