Dear Larry Hayes: Grow up. The Herald-Leader is hardly “casting aspersions” over the perception of impropriety involving the ring road debacle. There is CLEARLY a conflict of interest of the highest order re: you. Even Ethics thought so.
Just like Adam Edelen did (a few months back, selling his interest in a real estate company), you need to grow a pair and divest any interest you own in the property near the proposed battery consortium. Joe Prather needs to do the same thing. Man up and quit with the political money making schemes. You’re making this governor look worse than some of Ernie Fletcher’s people made him look. You should do the right thing or resign.
Everyone else: you’ve gotta read the latest from John Cheves:
FRANKFORT — Gov. Steve Beshear hopes to lure a major employer to a small Hardin County community where two of his cabinet members — acting Economic Development Secretary Larry Hayes and Transportation Secretary Joe Prather — own nearly 90 acres of land.
Hayes leads the effort to bring a lithium-ion car battery plant to an industrial site in Glendale, about 12 miles south of Elizabethtown, despite being advised by an ethics panel to abstain from any state activity that improves the site or otherwise enhances the value of his nearby properties.
Hayes and the Prather family own 8.5 acres just a few lots away from the 1,551-acre industrial site where the state plans to put the National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Batteries, a consortium of companies.
Hayes, who also is secretary of Beshear’s executive cabinet, failed to list the property on his annual financial-disclosure statement. After the Herald-Leader inquired this week, Beshear spokesman Jay Blanton said the failure was an oversight that Hayes will correct.
You’ve gotta read the rest. Click here for that.
Nice, huh? We thought so back in March when we first discussed a lawsuit about the matter. Read all about the corruption and mess that Steve Beshear now has on his hands by clicking here and clicking here.
And on this same matter: Larry just “forgot” to include his ownership of the property on his disclosure forms? After all the hubbub of lawsuits and the drama back in March? Really? Just “forgot” ???
Jesus H.
This is why Democrats could lose the governor’s mansion in 2011.
3 responses so far ↓
1 I Miss Cawood // Jun 29, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Cawood, is Richie going to play tonight?
2 Thunder Storm // Jun 29, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Could lose the Governors mansion?
I say… will lose the Governors mansion.
Either Richie or Trey will run for Governor.
Beshear has continued down the path Ernie Fletchers staff followed, He might even be using the same playbook.
I’m voting for someone else other than Beshear thats for sure.
If we don’t get bought and paid for entrenched incumberts and lifelong politicians out of the Governors mansion and legislature, Kentucky will never prosper.
I’m voting for someone totally new because they can’t do any worse than the crop we have been continually putting in office.
3 Conservative // Jun 29, 2009 at 10:11 pm
Prather is a total joke. It says something when the patronage-hireling yellow-dog Dems who infest …. I mean populate the merit employee base in the Transportation Cabinet, many of whom despised Fletcher and Nighbert, hate Beshear and Prather even more.
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