Yesterday we told you about Angela Ballou, a Probation and Parole Officer with the Kentucky Department of Corrections, a county chair for Rand Paul’s U.S. Senate campaign. She’s married to a Circuit Judge in McCreary & Whitley Counties. She “liked” David Adams’ (Pauls’ campaign manager) Facebook status attacking various Commonwealth’s Attorneys that endorsed Trey Grayson. [...]

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This week First Lady Jane Beshear joins her husband, Governor Steve Beshear, to spend 2:51 discussing Kentucky’s high school drop-out rate and proposed legislation to raise the drop-out age:

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Nope. Not a typo. Take a look: While noble for Rand Paul’s campaign manager, David Adams, to support the Special Olympics? I won’t deny that initially stumbling across that Facebook group made me feel quite violated. Sheds a whole new light on the Adams-Paul obsession with teabagging.

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Frank Simon’s Freedom’s Heritage Forum is sending out its fancy candidate questionnaires once again. So you’re aware of how crazy (thou doth protest too much, honeycackes) the man’s teabagging fearmongering goes, let’s take a look at some of the questions from the form his organization is distributing: 1. We are fed up with the politicians [...]

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Greg Stumbo tells Papaw Beshear that he won’t meet with him to discuss the budget until he gets more information. The Speaker of the House and the Governor of the Commonwealth are trying to set up budget talks BY LETTER. So you can be assured we are all going to hell, right now, no questions [...]

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My hometown telephone company got $78 million to provide broadband internet access. Leave it to Windstream Communications, a non-Kentucky company, to lie about who can access its services in an attempt to harm Mountain Telephone’s chances to improve the lives of thousands in Eastern Kentucky. [C-J] Lexington Public Library’s new choice for executive director turned [...]

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Check out this fancy videuh released by the DNC yesterday about Republican hypocrites: What was that, Mitch?

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Uh, um… I’m pretty sure it’s not a good idea to laugh at a group of Commonwealth’s Attorneys when they endorse a candidate? FROM TWITTER Maybe David Adams, Rand Paul’s campaign manager, dislikes them because they prosecute criminals? UPDATE: Check out the people who “liked” David Adams’ status on Facebook: Angie Ballou, a state parole [...]

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What’s that sounds? Why, it’s the sound of five young Kentuckians holding the governor’s staffers accountable on I Love Mountains Day. 20+ young people (aged five to 25) met with the five Beshear staffers and it was just as you’d expect: uncomfortable. They got a commitment for the governor to meet with them, but that’s [...]

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Gary Tapp deserves to be scared one last time, right? Well, kids, it’s time to show up for this: WHAT: Statewide Fairness Coalition Rally WHEN: 1:00 P.M. on Wednesday, February 24th WHO: ACLU of Kentucky, Fairness Campaign, Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, Kentucky Fairness Alliance, Lexington Fairness, gays & such from everywhere SPEAKERS: Various students, [...]

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