This week Governor Steve Beshear discusses Kentucky’s car credit that does nothing for the people who need it most:
Entries from August 2009
Governor Beshear’s Weekly Video Address
August 21st, 2009 · 9 Comments
Tags: Economy · Steve Beshear · Taxes
Corrupt Beshear Appointment Makes National News
August 21st, 2009 · 3 Comments
National publication Inside Higher Ed has taken notice of the corrupt appointment by Governor Steve Beshear of Larry Kelley to the WKCTC board: Kelley, however, is a convicted felon and pleaded guilty to three counts of credit card fraud in 1994. At the time, The Lexington Herald-Leader reported that Kelley, then a lawyer, had “obtained [...]
Tags: Corruption · Education · Mainstream · Steve Beshear
Mongiardo Finally Acknowledges Independent Poll
August 21st, 2009 · 4 Comments
The Mongiardo campaign has admitted that previous independent polling was legitimate. From a recent email blast: By a narrow margin, Daniel has replaced Conway as the strongest Democrat against Grayson, with Daniel getting 40% of the vote to Grayson’s 46%, while Conway gets 37% of the vote to Grayson’s 44%. Since April, Conway has lost [...]
Tags: Dan Mongiardo · FEAR! · Flashback · Hypocrisy · Jack Conway · Polling · Senate
TGIF! It’s Finally Friday & The State Fair Is On
August 21st, 2009 · 7 Comments
The Governor’s office has attempted to white wash the appointment of a convicted felon to the WKCTC board. [West Kentucky Politics] Fortunately, others in the western part of the state aren’t ignoring this issue. Despite the fact that they wouldn’t have known about the matter if they hadn’t read it on this site. Too bad [...]
Tags: Campaign Finance · Corruption · Dan Mongiardo · Eastern Kentucky · Education · Hypocrisy · Jack Conway · KDP · Polling · Rand Paul · RPK · Senate · Spotted · Stats · Steve Beshear · Trey Grayson
Your Thursday Afternoon of Scandals & Delusion
August 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Karen Sypher flashbacks. All right for this, you know, years-long scandal. What the crap. [LEO Weekly] When I say we’re all gonna die of the povert and/or the pig flu, I mean it. [Here's Proof] Rand Paul got an endorsement from some dude. [Ro... Rand Paul] And now he’s raising more money in a day [...]
Tags: Campaign Finance · Corruption · FEAR! · Flashback · Health Care · Rand Paul · Senate · Steve Henry · The Gays · UofL · Wasted Money
Fighting the Prescription Drug Epidemic
August 20th, 2009 · 6 Comments
Eastern Kentucky earned its reputation as the prescription pain-killer capital of the U.S. honestly. The problem has been the subject of media reports and political campaigns for years. Today attorney general Jack Conway announced the formation of a task force, funded by a $50,000 federal grant, that could deter the epidemic. “Prescription drug abuse has [...]
Tags: Eastern Kentucky · Environment · Jack Conway
They’re Teabagging Health Care, For Sure
August 20th, 2009 · No Comments
From Stephen George: This is an extension of the summer’s teabagging movement, whose message is a basic ideological opposition to the Obama agenda — every protest merits the trashing of cap-and-trade legislation, health care reform and bank bailouts, all ending in the pervasive fear that Americans are losing their “liberty and freedom.” Those seeking to [...]
Tags: Barack Obama · FEAR! · Health Care
UK Gets a Poor Grade in National Ranking
August 20th, 2009 · 9 Comments
by John LaFollette Page One Kentucky Correspondent US News and World Report published its annual college rankings online today, with the University of Kentucky again finishing outside of the top-100 national universities. UK was tied for 128th, at the bottom of the top tier of national universities, which focus on producing groundbreaking research as well [...]
Tags: Education · Embarrassing
Touching Base With My Readers
August 19th, 2009 · 21 Comments
Dear Page One family: I appreciate you greatly. More than you’ll ever know. Even the folks who disagree with me. But I am going to have to be away for the next few days for a family problem. I won’t get into it and will spare you the details, but I’m pretty sad about it [...]
Tags: Uncategorized
Really, KDP?
August 19th, 2009 · 3 Comments
Producing fraudulent ads about the Republican? Almost half ot Ditty’s practice is MEDICAID. Zero respect for you fuckers. ZERO respect. Hope the party continues to fall apart. Charlie Moore? Embarrassment. Steve Beshear & Crew? Even worse. Hope. You. Fail. You know it’s bad when a gay liberal is defending the Republican. And when television stations [...]
Tags: Corruption · Eastern Kentucky · Embarrassing · KDP · Special Election







