Comments on: Daniel Mongiardo on Industrial Hemp

By: brian mathews

brian mathews — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:29:41 +0000

“I bet you hope you never get sick.”

Who the fuck would hope they get sick?

By: James R.

James R. — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:29:36 +0000

Most GOOD Doctors support Clean Water for people. Mongardio has no problem supporting Mountaintop Removal Mining which pollutes the well water and streams of Eastern Kentucky.
Any Docctor who does that does not deserve my vote. I would simply rather vote Republican than hypocrite.

By: jake

jake — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:45:24 +0000

You people are fucking insane for trying to spin this. Daniel Mongiardo IS the machine.

He’s been in state government for years. He’s played the game. He’s playing it now.

Stop kidding yourselves.

By: Thunder Storm

Thunder Storm — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:42:38 +0000

“Plenty” of doctors are idiots, I bet you hope you never get sick.

Obviously Mongiardo is no longer part of the machine, if he ever was. Conway worked with all the people supporing him during the Patton Administration.

The people supporting Conway are the same ones who will be looking to continue their non merit careers at the expense of Kentucky’s citizens.

Compare Beshears roster of non merit staff and its remarkable how many decades these people have held non merit positions even through the Fletcher administration but Kentucky has never improved.

Its time we quit supporting “the machine”

By: Taylor

Taylor — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:19:16 +0000

also, I apologize for the omission of the word “be” in the first sentence of my above comment. When the old lady is hassling you to go get a prescription picked up, you just can’t proofread like normal.

Also, just me, you’re 100% correct. Lt. Dan with all of his ‘experience’ as a State Senator and Lt. Gov, is certainly just as much a part of the machine as anyone else.

By: Just me

Just me — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:02:57 +0000

Isn’t Dan our Lieutenant Governor?? Doesn’t that make him part of ‘the machine’??

By: Taylor

Taylor — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:45:22 +0000

T-Storm- First of all, plenty of doctors can (and are) idiots. Lt. Dan falls in that camp. Second of all, are you really that oblivious? Lt. Dan pissed people off by sponsoring a constitutional amendment to disenfranchise a significant portion of our state’s population in order to serve his own needs, which still didn’t work out for him so well back in ’04.

Mongiardo is one of our state’s top proponents of a single industry economy in this state, which isn’t so different than the “entrenched politicians that keep Kentucky in the bottom 5 of every national category” – in fact, a majority of Lt. Dan’s positions are significantly more similar to the GOP than to the Democratic party. For examples see: labor, energy/environmental policy and health care, arguably three issues that mark some of the greatest differences between the two major parties.

I’m not sure how voting for a candidate who would prefer to keep KY in the stone age to benefit his major donors (big coal) will help KY, as I believe you are implying. I’m also not quite sure how the endorsement of the governor is less ‘machine politics’ than the endorsement of the state’s true progressive representative in Congress, who is in no way a career politician. Lt. Dan is part of the problem that Beshear, McConnell, Bunning and the 4 shitty GOP congressman have been creating around here for awhile. Jack Conway isn’t Jesus, but he sure is part of the solution.

By: E

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:11:06 +0000

Well said Thunder…

By: Lyndon Combs

Lyndon Combs — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:47:31 +0000

Not everyone in the moutains of Eastern Kentucky are against the growing of industrial hemp, just as not everyone in rural Kentucky are racist, and ignorant. This could be a big boost to the economy of the region,and the state.
Dr, Dan is too busy with pushing medical records on computers so that Mongiardo Enterprises can make money buidling the web sites to see that we need a strong cash crop in Kentucky.

By: Thunder Storm

Thunder Storm — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:45:05 +0000

How can you say that? He is a doctor now less so he is far from “a dumb idiot”

What has he done to piss you off so bad. If you will never vote for him, you’ll vote for Mitch or Bunning? Would you vote for David Williams, Stumbo or any of the other entrenched politicians that keep Kentucky in the bottom 5 of every national category. Do you want to keep voting for who the “Kentucky machine” wants you to vote for.

Look at who has endorsed Conway, every political powerhouse person in Kentucky, all party machine people. The same people that keep Kentucky in the bottom 5 of national categories.

Have you ever voted for someone who will help Kentucky even if it doesn’t help you personally?

Its time we go against the norm and not vote for the popular candidate or the one that raises the most money or the most handsome or prettiest. Don’t vote because of one issue or cause, vote for the total package.

Everyone says they don’t vote for the incumbent of machine choice but somehow they keep getting elected. I’m ready to throw all the bums out and start over