Steve Beshear’s win doesn’t mean anything. Anything other than: he’s not David Williams. Just like 2007 when he wasn’t Ernie Fletcher. It’s called being the luckiest man in Kentucky politics. [Amanda Van Benschoten's Replacement]
Alison Lundergan Grimes FINALLY put the meemaw blooper video back online:
Dear teabaggers: you aren’t going to have more influence in Kentucky until you stop being absolutely insane. You’re being snowed by David Adams as he tries to make it to an easy payday. [H-L]
Chelsea Clinton has an NBC News correspondent? The world says yes. This could be a good thing. [HuffPo]
Ronnie Ellis is absolutely spot-on: thank goodness the gubernatorial race is over. [Richmond Register]
Lexington has suffered its third deadly hit and run accident in a week. It’s not safe to breath in Lexington – you’re either going to get shot or run over. [WKYT]
Problems persist with contractors paid millions of dollars to ferret out Medicare fraud. In Kentucky, we know they don’t get to the bottom of anything because they’re getting kickbacks. [HuffPo]
Republicans are optimistic. But not because of beating Bob Farmer, the worst Democratic candidate in decades. They’re optimistic because there’s an opportunity for Jimmy Higdon to become Senate President. [Joe Gerth]
Speaking of Higdon, his son was instrumental in rooting out a pill bill in Marion County. The doctor from the clinic got involved in another mess in Lexington. [H-L]
Does government regulation really kill jobs? Nope, even economists say the overall effect is minimal. [WaPo]
There could be actual riots in the streets if this country isn’t careful. These “Occupy” protests aren’t really getting folks anywhere and people will eventually get upset. The ones who aren’t lazy will, anyway. Stifling the ability to assemble in protest, though, is stupid. [Reuters]
We told you Kentucky has an advantage when it comes to organic farming. Young farmers are finding huge obstacles to getting started and Jamie Comer could ditch the teabaggers and find a way to make Kentucky hot. [NY Times]
4 responses so far ↓
1 jason // Nov 14, 2011 at 8:35 am
Joe Gerth just can’t help being a lazy, partisan hack. From his latest CJ story:
In Tuesday’s elections, only state Rep. James Comer won his election — for agriculture commissioner, arguably the least consequential of all the statewide offices on the ballot. The only other race that was close was for state treasurer, in which incumbent Democrat Todd Hollenbach squeaked past Republican K.C. Crosbie by about 2 percent of the vote.
Yeah, the Treasurer’s office is hugely important as opposed to say an office that works directly with Ky farmers….cj, please fire him!!
2 George Washington // Nov 14, 2011 at 8:37 am
What if, instead of making David Adams the largest expense of his campaign, Phil Moffett spent the money on his candidacy? When are TEA Partiers going to realize that Adams’ efforts for Moffett were all about Adams and not Phil? I am tired of the MSM quoting Adams like he has some kind of influence or clout. He is an opportunist trying to ride a wave, not a visionary trying to define it.
3 Merlin // Nov 14, 2011 at 9:49 am
Comer’s election not all but yes a large degree about his opponent. If he had a credible opponent he certainly would NOT have received the margin that he did…whether he would have won is debatable. Now, the challenge for Comer is not do what former Governor Fletcher did. That is let the numbers go to his head and think that his intellect, likeability, and campaign skills got him there. In fact, Comer would be wise to clean out the current mess in the state’s Department of Agriculture and rid himself of the headline making news of the Richie Farmer’s staff. He should immediately put his stamp on the department by firing those non classified staff and put in people of his choosing who would surely provide better advise than the current crop did for Richie Farmer. In fact, several of them benefitted along with Farmer with trips out of the country, etc. Finally, Comer would be wise to put in a few people who aren’t afraid to privately say, hey, that’s not a good idea or if you do this here are the consequences. Fletcher didn’t do that. Farmer didn’t do that. Big mistake to surround yourself with yes men. Comer has a future if he settles himself down from the win and surrounds himself with good staff.
4 TipAddress // Nov 14, 2011 at 2:38 pm
David Adams is a one-trick pony — the only thing he ever does is start intra-party battles between his “side” and someone he’s decided is a RINO, which somehow ends up with him drawing a paycheck as a result of the ensuing mess. He tore apart the Jessamine County GOP and hasn’t stopped since. He goes negative first, early, and often. If his candidate doesn’t make it out of the primary, he submarines the nominee. If they DO win the primary, he either gets replaced as campaign manager (R. Paul) or the candidates are unelectable. Kemper raised less than $40K and Johnson raised less than $70K. Anyone serious about running for statewide office has to be able to fund raise, and no, this is not about the GOP “establishment” not giving, it’s about those two not being capable enough or even campaigning enough to do the work necessary to raise the money they needed to be competitive. In all scenarios, it starts with Adams driving up the “us vs them” issue and then wondering why the party isn’t unified enough to elect his ideologically “perfect” candidates.
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