Teresa Isaac still hasn’t directly addressed the serious concerns about her involvement with the Fayette County Detention Center and Blue Grass Airport scandals. Her public silence is both deafening and quite telling. The longer she lets this ride without speaking, the more clear it becomes to us and our readers that she’s either got something to hide or delusional.
We brought our concerns to you yesterday. And as promised, we shared those same concerns on television. None of this would be a big deal, but Isaac – the former mayor of Lexington, not the current as she likes to pretend – is trying to run for mayor again. After losing to the worst candidate Lexington has seen in decades, Jim Newberry.
So. We’re gonna keep pressing until Teresa Isaac does the right thing by addressing her involvement in these major scandals. The fact that she’s allowed them to get so mainstream is surprising. Because this is going to be one crazy mayoral roller coaster.
Note that we aren’t addressing rumors floating around about Isaac and any major candidate she may have supported in the past. Mainly because they pale in comparison to what she refuses to publicly discuss.
5 responses so far ↓
1 John Blickenstaff // May 27, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Jim Newberry was not a terrible candidate. He worked very hard, shook a lot of hands, and said all the right things. Do you remember the issue of the day at all? It was the water company. A huge media blitz, including buying off Dave ‘Buzz’ Baker and his daddy’s (Jimmy Host) radio station, created sympathy for the German American Water Company somehow. $ buys votes still, or at least did at that time.
2 jake // May 27, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Yeah, he was a terrible candidate. Just as he’s been an embarrassingly terrible mayor.
What you saw on the campaign trail was a Mark Riddle Production. And I don’t know many people who don’t feel like they’ve been sold a bill of goods.
3 me in lex // May 27, 2009 at 1:32 pm
If you know Teresa at all, then you know that she will not address these issues, publicly or privately, at any time. She’s quite skilled at ignoring what she doesn’t want to acknowledge, to the point of (I think) convincing herself that the truth is what she thinks it is, not what really happened.
As for Jim…I have been sorely disappointed in his administration. Many things he criticized with the Isaac administration (secrecy, hostile relations with Council, etc.) have, IMO, gotten worse in the last years. He had some great ideas that actually brought some passion to the surface when he discussed them, but they’ve not been mentioned again.
That said…I’d vote for Jim over Teresa and not feel a bit bad about it but am holding out hope that someone decent (not Scott Crosbie) decides to jump in as well.
4 jake // May 27, 2009 at 1:54 pm
I worked with Teresa in 2007 and liked her quite well. That said, I also like Ernie Fletcher and adore Barbara Bush– the meanest bitch in all the land.
But she really does have a lot of problems on her hands that she refuses to address. I believe she could be delusional.
That said – Democrats and Republicans are pressuring Jim Gray to jump in the Mayoral race and I believe he’ll do it. He has the support of the business community, the conservatives, the liberals and he’s a true Lexingtonian.
5 me in lex // May 27, 2009 at 2:12 pm
On a personal level I like Teresa a lot. She was a bad mayor though, fixating on the water issue to the exclusion of nearly everything else…which is problematic no matter on which side of the water debate one falls.
I’ve worked very closely with Jim Gray in political and city business capacities; I have my personal concerns about his ability to function as mayor but honestly it may suit him better than vice mayor. I wouldn’t have said it 6 months into his vice mayor tenure, but I would support his candidacy now.
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