What is it with the Beshear Misadministration constantly looking worse than Ernie Fletcher’s hot mess of a failed administration?

Check the latest from John Cheves:

Gov. Steve Beshear’s administration overruled its top mine permitting official last year to “accommodate the coal interests” and reinstate a policy the official said was illegal, according to state documents.

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Mills said that before he was fired, Campbell told him Alliance Coal — specifically, a company executive named Raymond Ashcraft — and the governor’s office were pushing for his ouster because of his opposition to the 33 1/3 rule. One of Beshear’s staff assistants, Jeff Belcher, often called the Division of Mine Permits on behalf of coal companies to ask about their permit applications, Mills said.

Alliance Coal is a big political donor, having given several hundred thousand dollars to Kentucky politicians and parties on the state and federal level, including to Beshear and the Kentucky Democratic Party.

“I didn’t want to do anything that was illegal,” Mills said.

Belcher did not return a call seeking comment. The governor’s office has denied playing a role in Mills’ firing.

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C. Michael Haines, general counsel for the Energy and Environment Cabinet, said he could not identify any specific federal or state statutes that permit the 33 1/3 rule.

“That’s just the way we’ve chosen to interpret it,” Haines said.

The Kentucky Resources Council plans to sue the Beshear administration in coming weeks to block the 33 1/3 rule because it puts the profits of coal companies over the rights of property owners, said Thomas FitzGerald, the council’s director.

Can you say one-termer?

This Administration is done if it continues down this road of lying, corruption and selling out to the highest bidder. And it can’t come quickly enough.

If this were a Republican governor? The teevee newsies would be all over this mess. And that’s coming from me – a librul Democrat who is tired of corruption.