Wendell Ford Dinner 2009: In Pictures

June 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment

You’ve read all about the Wendell Ford Dinner shenanigans, right? If not, CLICK HERE to catch up on all the drama. You won’t want to miss it.

(NOTE: The lady in green! Margaret Harris, of the Louisville Water Company Board. She never speaks to us but she’s always the most beautiful person in the room. People can’t help but stare. We’re not gay enough to suggest that anyone may be flawless, but, um, that woman is flawless.)

We missed several people throughout the evening. Primarily, Dann Byck, who always loved cracking jokes with us. He’s sorely missed.

Other notables who weren’t there: Crit Luallen, Andrew & Stephanie Horne, Ben Chandler, Jerry Abramson (though, as several people pointed out, it was a DEMOCRATIC dinner – that’s why Ben & Jerry didn’t show), Steve Henry, Mike Ward, no one from Fairness was there (we’ll invite them next year), Mary Lou Marzian, Pat Roles.

As promised, here are a few photographs from Saturday evening’s event at the newly-remodeled (to the tune of $27 million) Crowne Plaza Hotel in Louisville. Most everything was poorly lit, so the pictures a bit grainy. But you’ll make do.

Here’s where we sat:

Oh, looky there. It’s Daniel Mongiardo, Kimberly Greenwell (she wore that tablecloth thing last year) looking quite upset that I was taking her picture. She hopped around throughout the night pretending she didn’t lie about Steve Henry’s illegal campaign finance shenanigans (whattya know? KREF lobbed $50K in fines at him) and Lt. Dan allowed her to trail him for a bit:

Here’s Larry Clark as he ran away from us. We happened upon him as he was calling Jonathan Hurst a “faggot” and referring to him as my source on all things Frankfort (hardly the case, as JH doesn’t, um, you know, even work in Frankfort anymore?) because we’re both “faggots.” So I turned around, shook his hand, and told him he was terribly mistaken about my source. Then he yelled, “I don’t even want to talk to you, boy!” I think it’s a great photograph.

See the rest of the photos after the jump…

One of these pairs of shoes belongs to Rep. Joni Jenkins, who always wears the most awesome pieces of artwork on her feet. Guess which pair she’s wearing. (No, those aren’t my canvas kicks, I had on something a little more shiny)

The early reception crowd was rather large:

Here’s Greg Fischer chatting with David Nicholson, some dude and Daniel Mongiardo:

Craig Greenberg came to the event:

Here’s Joni most likely encouraging people like Charlie Horton to misbehave:

Just as she encouraged PVA Tony Lindauer and Deputy State Treasurer Mary John Celletti:

Metro Council President David Tandy and his wife, Carolyn, had a chat with Rachel Greenberg, who may be one of the coolest people we met all night. And not just because she spotted my awesome tie from 100 yards away