Public Policy Polling should come to Kentucky for its finally poll of 2009. [Click Here to Vote]
Now Steve Nunn’s attorney says he’s not competent and should be moved to a psychiatric hospital. [Stephenie Steitzer]
The new hospital at UK is pretty spiff. [Ryan Alessi]
Ron Mills has appealed his firing from the Energy & Environment cabinet citing political and age bias. Looks like Steve Beshear’s re-election prospects just got a little bit dimmer. [Tom Loftus]
Vote for regression! Vote for the candidate who will repeal legislation rather than create it. Vote for the guy with a Napoleonic Complex who wants to go back in time. Vote for the guy who is allegedly allowing staff members to threaten non-supporters at political events. [Barefoot & Progressive]
Best op-ed ever? Forget dueling: you ever traded sex favors? [H-L]
AdamEdelen.com’s been registered by a Nate Morris, Director of Operations for an recycling/waste removal/environmental company. And more than 50 people have searched for “adam edelen state auditor” in the past few days. Is he planning to announce a candidacy for Crit Luallen’s job? [WHOIS Info & Rubicon Info]
KEEP wants local-option elections for expanded gambling. [Bluegrass Politics]
Harry Reid is a failure among failures and should be voted out of office immediately. Caving on health care reform like he has just proves he’s worthless. [The Hill]
Looks like Trey Grayson won’t be debating at the University of Louisville. But, really, it’s the college repubs’ fault for only sending an invitation via Facebook instead of sending a formal letter, email or making a call a couple months in advance. And a hint to Trey’s folks: never snub a group of college students in the state’s largest city, ever, in any way. [WHAS11]
RUH RO! The Courier-Journal editorial board just handed Ben Chandler his rear end. Here’s to betting the paper ends up endorsing him over a Republican, just because. [C-J]
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1 BHG // Dec 15, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Note this key passage in the Loftus article: “Mills was a non-merit appointee of Beshear, and such workers can be fired without cause. However, non-merit employees can challenge the reason for their firing — if they are given a reason. Mills was not given a cause in the letter notifying him that he had been fired. However, in interviews Peters said he alone decided to fire Mills because he lacked required management skills.”
I had wondered if the Peters interview would give Mills grounds to appeal. So was the interview a calculated move to risk a personnel board appeal in order to stem the negative press? Or was it a simple blunder?
2 Larry West // Dec 16, 2009 at 9:21 am
I favor the local-option election for casinos. I think casinos passed in Harrison County only because everyone knew it would be in the corner away from their homes. It failed in Floyd County because the casino would have been out in the open at the downtown riverfront. The immediate neighbors should have a say.
But has KEEP really thought this through?
If this is treated like a “wet/dry vote,” then Churchill Down will NOT get slots. Why? Because the county made Churchill Downs its own precinct without any voters so that their neighbors couldn’t vote the racetrack dry. Since there are no voters, there can’t be a petition for a slots vote. Hence, no slot machines for Churchill.
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