Papaw Beshear and Jody Richards (with his metrosexual glasses) were on AutoBlog last week. Totally missed that! [Click the Clicky]
State Government killed contracts for organizations providing services for youth leaving foster care. Something about overloaded, understaffed state workers being able to do a better job. $625,000. Like the good folks in Frankfort couldn’t have found something less important to cut? Like take-home cars? Or fancy trips for executive branch staff? If it’s not broke and you aren’t saving anyone any money, it’s ridiculous to change it. You’ll have to find Debby’s story on your own, as I won’t link to the plagiarist newspaper in round-ups any longer. [A Kentucky Newspaper]
Real estate and financial experts say even a scaled-down version of CentrePointe is both unlikely and unneeded. Wonder how Jim Newberry will spin that? I hear the Webbs are also growing disenchanted with him by the day. [H-L]
Also, go read this great piece about the Hopewell Museum in Paris. [Tom Eblen]
Oh, look, Jim Newberry was spotted on Google Street View. Shouldn’t he be in Lexington leveling historic city blocks and illegally withholding public documents from the city council? [HuffPo]
Kentucky facing budget woes because federal aid isn’t coming? This is what Frankfort gets for screwing around and never doing the job. [Ronnie Ellis]
Want to know why some Democratic campaign staffers and advisers should have lost their jobs weeks ago? Jack Conway won’t be showing up for Joe Biden’s visit today. His campaign refused to say what his “scheduling conflict” is. And when there’s a legit scheduling conflict, there’s never a refusal like that. [Fox41 & Politico]
You could win a Ford Focus by giving blood at the Holiday Hero Churchill Downs Blood Drive. Paddock Pavilion, July 6 – 8, Noon – 7:00 P.M. Every presenting donor will receive a ticket to King’s Island, they’ll be served Stoker’s Broaster Chicken and will get a coupon for a free pint of Graeter’s ice cream (I recommend the Coconut Chip – forget about the carbs, it’s worth it) – which means you must go give blood. [Press Release]
Million-year-old (okay, 92) Senator Robert Byrd passed away. [NY Times, WaPo, Charleston Daily Mail, CBS, Politico]
Rand Paul is afraid to speak to the media, so he spoke with a teabagger. [Click the Clicky]
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1 Lisa Graas // Jun 28, 2010 at 10:22 am
Praying for the repose of the soul of Sen. Byrd.
Rand Paul has a curious opinion on the 2nd amendment. The 2nd amendment applies to federal laws. It’s the 14th amendment that ensures no state may pass a statewide gun ban. And that’s not just me saying that. The NRA has filed court briefs on the matter. Of course, Rand didn’t get the NRA endorsement. Maybe that’s why. He doesn’t like the Fourteenth Amendment.
He clearly doesn’t care what the Constitution says and just makes this stuff up as he goes along.
2 Belknap Banquo // Jun 28, 2010 at 11:57 am
Re: Conway missing out on Uncle Joe Biden’s fly-in…..Anymore, standing next to Biden is like standing next to someone with Tourette’s Syndrome on an amphetamine jag smoking a cigarette surrounded by open, filled gas cans. The man is a walking foot swallower.
3 Belknap Banquo // Jun 28, 2010 at 4:05 pm
Jim Yarmuth gave the speech rave reviews, and the GE exec who fell off the stage said he was knocked off his feet by the brilliance. Overall, it was a pretty big fucking deal.
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