What could Governor Steve Beshear do to ruin I Love Mountains Day and draw necessary attention away from the anti-mountaintop removal gathering?
Why, work to arrange and promote another gathering at the exact same time and exact same place.
Beshear’s office just issued a press advisory announcing that he’ll be speaking at a Black History Month Celebration (no, I’m not trying to tear down the event – but it’s ridiculously timed) at noon at the capitol. Today.
Along with our filter-free governor, the following are scheduled to speak:
- Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo
- Chief Justice John D. Minton
- Senate President David Williams
- House Speaker Greg Stumbo
- Sen. Gerald Neal
- Rep. Derrick Graham
- Rep. Darryl Owens
- Rep. Jesse Crenshaw
- Rep. Reginald Meeks
- Rep. Jim Glenn
- Rep. Arnold Simpson
Interesting. It’d be easy to overlook this as a scheduling coincidence if the governor and his crew weren’t consistently working on behalf of King Coal– like in Wheelright the past week. And if several closed-minded white guys (coal shills, it should be noted) who have a history of saying things like “African-American blacks” weren’t featured prominently.
UPDATE:
Wait, wait! There’s more!
To further pander to coal, Besher will appear at a major press conference for Chegg in Shepherdsville at 2:00 P.M. It’s for an “[e]conomic development announcement” and several others will be on-hand: Shepherdsville Mayor Sherman Tinnell, Bullitt County Judge-Executive Melanie Roberts, Bullitt County Chamber of Commerce president LouAnn Moore, ED of the Bullitt County Econ Dev Authority Bob Fouts and Aayush Phumbhra, co-founder and SVP of Chegg.
Beshear is also scheduled to appear on MSNBC at 11:00 A.M. to discuss Toyota.
You can’t tell me that all of these press events – cutting majorly into the ability of Kentucky media to focus on I Love Mountains Day – isn’t a decisive move on Beshear’s behalf.
3 responses so far ↓
1 Fed Up // Feb 11, 2010 at 2:32 pm
So, what do we do? Vote them out? Put more back in just like them? Republican, Democrat doesn’t matter. Kentucky is crooked, all politicians are crooked. Talking about it, calling them out, none of this is making a difference. Just look at KLC, KACO, Lawson, etc. getting off scott free. They sit home with their millions of dollars and laugh at us. There is only one way to stop all this, we all know what that is. It’s being mentioned more and more by the day, people are fed up.
2 wondering // Feb 11, 2010 at 3:26 pm
I think you’re leaning into “conspiracy theory” territory here and your premise is a bit of a stretch.
3 jake // Feb 11, 2010 at 4:05 pm
Considering this event was originally organized to honor Justice McAnulty with the dedication of his bust (which was originally the idea of David Williams, of all people), it’s hardly a conspiracy.
This came about recently when Papaw & Lt. Dan – according to their staffers – decided they needed a Black History Month event. And they put everything else on his schedule well after the KFTC event was publicized.
Doesn’t help that Daniel couldn’t even pronounce McAnulty’s name… after talking about “what a great friend” he was.
Doesn’t help that no other constitutional officers were officially invited.
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