Welcome to day 9 (ONLY ONE MORE DAY!) of the Second Annual Golden Poo Awards in honor of our third anniversary. Ten lucky winners will receive a fancy pile of golden poo. And you, our terrific readers, are going to help give the awards.
See how great the poo is? Everybody wants it, just because, amen.
Which elected/public officials, candidates, reporters, public figures and so forth are absolutely full of it? Your input is needed!
Each day for the next however (it’s tough to count) many days, we’ll announce a new award category and you’ll submit an unlimited number of nominees.
Previous Categories:
- Day 1: Person Responsible For Legislation (or Legislation-Related Mess) Requiring the Most Lubricant
- Day 2: Reporter Most Likely To Make You Kick Your Television, Burn Your Newspaper, Smash Your Radio Or Toss Your Computer
- Day 3: Most Pee-Worthy Abuse Of Twitter By A Political Figure Acting Like A 12-Year-Old Girl
- Day 4: Politician Most Likely To Be Investigated Or Indicted In The Next 12 Months
- Day 5: Worst Example Of Total Incompetence From A Local Or State Official In An Appointed Post
- Day 6: Elected Official, Appointee Or Contractor Responsible For The Most Flagrant & Vile Abuse Of Taxpayer Money
- Day 7: Most Godawful Television Commercial From A Political Candidate Forever, Amen
- Day 8: Individual In Politics Or Media With The Worst Diarrhea Of The Mouth
Be sure to nominate someone for those categories.
After all nominations are received for all announced categories, we’ll announce the winners and send the golden piles of magic along to eagerly awaiting recipients. Please remember to make your nomination as scandalous and inappropriate as possible.
Today’s category is:
Submit your nomination – along with your reasoning (this is required) – in the comments. Keep it hilarious. It was Francene’s idea, so, for real, let’s make this one gooooood.
11 responses so far ↓
1 Belknap Banquo // Aug 5, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Betty Win……..Ok Ok, I won’t, but she did have another classic in today’s C-J where she took yet another shot at the uppity alternative media as an ending to a totally different subject matter. It’s getting to be a trend. I still say that she who shall not be named (here,anyway) deserves a Poolitzer
2 wondering // Aug 5, 2010 at 4:05 pm
Once again, the collective known as the General Assembly should be nominated. They passed a law giving the governor the ability to furlough executive branch employees and elected officials, but exempted themselves and LRC employees — not to mention AOC employees, employees at state universities and public schools. Since they crapped on on the executive branch, it’s time someone crapped on them. Give one to Williams and one to Stumbo.
3 room106 // Aug 5, 2010 at 4:13 pm
all the video and press stories reveal the following:
Candidate Beshear: I’m not going to use the state plane like Fletcher for political events.
Governor Beshear: Ok, I will but the KDP or my campaign will reimburse (just like Fletcher did).
Candidate Beshear: You won’t have to ask me about working with the Senate on gambling…We’ll just get it done.
Governor Beshear: Ok maybe 4th time is charm.
Candidate Beshear: There will be no wholesale firing of Republicans because of their political party. That wont’ happen in my administration.
Governor Beshear: I fired most all Republicans and for no other reason because I fired more than half within first month and the rest within the same amount of time with no knowledge of what they did. (Governor has power to do that to non-merits but when you say you’re not going to in a debate in NKY…).
Candidate Beshear (alluding to Fletcher/Pence squabble): Daniel Mongiardo and I will work together for the Commonwealth.
Governor Beshear: I was just kidding about that…don’t really want him at my meetings and I did give him a few Derby tickets even though it wasn’t all that he wanted.
Candidate Beshear to Dems: We need somebody to stand up to David Williams and get things done.
Governor Beshear: Ok, David, I’ll call a special session to essentually enact the budget that you wanted to since you wouldn’t pass mine.
Candidate Beshear in 2011: I’ll say it again, forget what I did.
Governor Beshear in 2012: Shew, I won, now to forget what I said and do it again (for four more years).
4 jake // Aug 5, 2010 at 4:34 pm
wondering: Why are you trying to bankrupt me? Jesus.
I’d have to buy a thousand golden poohs and build a thousand trophies.
5 eric schansberg // Aug 5, 2010 at 5:33 pm
Is this for KY only? I didn’t see anything in the description, so here’s one for a Hoosier.
I’ve gotten two (campaign) mailings from Democratic Rep. Baron Hill in the last two weeks– on his supposed fiscal conservatism– announcing “5 ways I’m working to get federal spending under control”.
#5 is “serving as an example…Rep. Hill doesn’t just talk about fiscal responsibility, he leads by example.”
Then, in small print on the other side: “This mailing was prepared, published, and mailed at taxpayer expense.”
Hill’s an “example” all right…
6 Lucius Cincinnatus // Aug 5, 2010 at 6:09 pm
Day 2: Barrett Haberly: A wanna-be journalist attempting to hump Mark Heibert’s shadow. Ambush Journalism is not the way to become a premier political journalist.
Day 3: David Adams: The “I know something, give me some attention” tweets every 41 seconds gets old. He’s thrust himself upon the Republican Party like a $1.25 hooker… might seem like a good thing at first, but the underlying need is a real hug from Daddy.
Day 4: Jim King: Just a gut instinct. You said politician and indictment, and the clouds parted, a single ray of sunshine rested upon my screen, and Jim King’s name came to mind.
Day 6: Jerry Abramson: You know why!
Day 7: McConnell/Lunsford bitch fight over the improper use of a decorated War veteran being treated at Lunsford’s clinics or whatever. Shame on Lunsford for the treatment. Shame on Mitch for exploiting a disabled vet.
Day 8: Chris Thieneman: Fred Cowen Conspiracy; FOP conspiracy; any Joe Arnold interview; Democrat/Republican/Democrat/Republican/McConnell is out to get me, I endorse Yarmuth, no I don’t, I wanna be Mayor Conspiracy; UofL wants to hijack a Derby Party for research Conspiracy; The millionaire, I want to be relevant club.
7 wondering // Aug 5, 2010 at 6:39 pm
Jake, I’ll make you a deal. I’ll save the stuff in the cat litter box and spraypaint it gold for you.
8 DazzlingExHarlanite // Aug 5, 2010 at 6:40 pm
Jake – you don’t have to buy and build a thousand poo trophies – just borrow Otis’ bull and ride it up to the steps of the Capitol to deposit one perfectly formed golden pile of poo. Deliver it on the first furlough day then lead a parade of state employees to an Indiana casino!
9 JkarMaG // Aug 6, 2010 at 11:24 am
I vote for Giles “I like to touch women inappropriately” Meloche and Wayne “I agree because thats what I was told to say” Zelinsky for several reasons.
1. For teaching their children to respect women or to expect respect as a woman and then groping (in Meloches case) any woman that is with in arms reach and Zelinsky’s case being part of the cover up of Meloches’ sexual harassment escapades.
2 . For impounding citizen’s dogs that are in unhealth living conditions and holding them in the exact same type of conditions the dogs were picked up for. First Meloche and now Zelinsky refuse to hold whomever is doing the cleaning to any kind of standard. Those kennels get cleaned once a day, not the correct way either, and 90% of the days in a year after seven o’clock they don’t get any type of cleaning at all. With the numbers of dogs that go through that place the severity and type of virulent pathogens is unbelievable. Sounds like a prime example of, out of the frying pan and into the fire. How can you help a dog if you kill it with parvo, distemper, or a uri so bad it turns into pneumonia?
10 Elihu Smails // Aug 7, 2010 at 5:02 pm
I think this may also be a Sylvia Lovely category.
Let’s look at some of her “teaching”
1. Be active and engaged in your community…by using large amount of public money to buy yourself a Lexus, give yourself a 300k salary and dump as much of it as you can into your husbands restaurant.
2. Take personal responsibility…unless you’re the victim of a witchhunt perpetrated by the media and the State’s squeaky clean auditor.
3. Be engaged in your family life…by encouraging your husband to practice the same values you do and turn an eye to airport corruption and be loyal to his businesses by spending public money at them.
4. Be a Leader…by being a role model for your staff and encourage them to follow your lead by enriching themselves and making sure they get a slice of the pie.
5. Be Open and Transparent…by staying at your job far longer than the date you said you were leaving. And by holding yourself up as someone who can teach others about transparency and corporate governance (though I should give her credit for that…maybe the Enron guys can get a gig like that once they leave prison).
Actually Jake, maybe she was encouraging others to do as she says and did. And maybe that was the problem.
11 Crutnacker // Aug 8, 2010 at 12:21 am
How does Rand Paul not walk away with this one, given his railing for term limits while refusing to say he’d limit himself, bitching about socialized medicine while taking thousands from Medicare/Medicaid, and claiming to be a libertarian while cozying up to the bigoted closet case that is Frank Simon MD.
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