Ronnie Ellis summarizes everything we’ve heard and shared with you over the past couple months:
After Stumbo unseated Jody Richards as speaker, he promised a “broader, more open” process, but increasingly some House members are complaining the House has simply duplicated the top-down leadership model in the Senate. Several lawmakers complained last week they knew nothing of the road plan until they saw it at a Democratic caucus meeting late Thursday. And some who opposed Stumbo’s rise to the top spot in the House are whispering there’s trouble among the leadership team as well. More than a few have already predicted there’ll be changes in leadership after the elections in 2010, though none mention Stumbo.
This final week of “anything can happen” in the general assembly will seal Greg Stumbo’s fate. Not even the likely special session to confirm gambling at racetracks will save him. House Democrats are over top-down leadership and are over the charade of “leadership.”
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1 Polar // Mar 9, 2009 at 6:58 pm
You know, for years now, the Kentucky General Assembly has been an abject failure. The budgetary problems and obsession with abridging the rights of others in the perpetuation by law of fundamentalist dogma has been the hallmark of the GA since the millenium. SB68 is but only one obvious, ignorant example of this. I called my state sen about it, spoke to her about it a few weeks ago, and she says she “has” to vote for it or she will lose Southeast Christian’s voters. Someone needs to drop acid on their roof, it’s the only way that place will ever be holy.
I gripe, and so do many others, but what do we do about it?
Perhaps it is time for all of us gripers to run for the legislature. Let’s quit griping and throw these rascals out!
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