And why does he continue to pull the wool over his constituents’ eyes in Eastern Kentucky?

Let’s take a trip down the Keith Hall void:

• Speaking of Greg Stumbo and Ethics… [February 24, 2009]
• Keith Hall - Big Time Hypocrisy [March 2, 2009]
• Flashback: Keith Hall Shirked Duties in Frankfort [March 19, 2009]
• News-Express Hits Keith Hall Again [March 23, 2009]
• Is Keith Hall In Potentially Unethical Hot Water? [June 25, 2009]
• Keith Hall Responds to News-Express Story [June 25, 2009]
• Oh Snap Monday! Keith Hall Outed by Stumbo [June 29, 2009]
• The Keith Hall Scandal Still Lives On [July 1, 2009]
• Fallout From the Keith Hall Scandal [July 2, 2009]
• Not Letting the Keith Hall Scandal Go [July 6, 2009]
• More Mountain Water Board Embarrassment? [July 10, 2009]
• It’s Time for Keith Hall to Come Clean [August 24, 2009]
• Rep. W. Keith Hall of Pike County Has a Past [August 27, 2009]
• Keith Hall Blames David Williams & More [September 8, 2009]
• News-Express: Stumbo Should Be Investigated [September 14, 2009]
• Crit Luallen to Audit Mountain Water District? [November 5, 2009]

Check out the latest from John Cheves & Dori Hjalmarson:

FRANKFORT — Over the last five years, state Rep. Keith Hall, D-Phelps, has earmarked at least $120,000 in state funds for the “Phelps History Center” in Pike County.

There is no Phelps History Center, as such. In the original budget request, Hall said Phelps High School would use the money to teach local history by producing “historical narratives and plays.” The focus is on academics, Hall wrote.

“This funding will greatly enhance the Phelps students’ knowledge of arts and humanities, thereby increasing their knowledge and greatly improving their test scores,” Hall’s request stated.

A Herald-Leader review of spending records shows that roughly half the $117,770 spent so far — all from coal-severance tax dollars — went not to academic projects for the school’s 430 students, but to sports gear, including basketball and volleyball uniforms, basketball micro-fleece travel outfits, a mascot costume and Nike and Adidas sneakers.

Click here to read the rest. There’s just too much dirt piling up around Keith Hall to ignore.

I love how coal severance dollars earmarked for a history center turns into ice cream and sports equipment. Makes tons of sense. And like clockwork, Keith Hall has ever excuse in the book prepared for the press.

This is why Eastern Kentucky cannot have nice things. And it’s why stagnation is rampant.