Jim Booth and his friends donated at least $40,000 to Steve Beshear’s re-election campaign. They’re staunch Republicans, hate the Environmental Protection Agency. Booth spoke at Leadership Kentucky bashing the EPA, if you recall.

But they gave $40K. And mysteriously Carl Campbell, commissioner of the Department for Natural Resources, was canned yesterday.

Isn’t that suspicious? An honest Environment Cabinet employee gets canned after some hardcore donors raise hell about the EPA and mountaintop removal. Funny how that works.

We hear federal regulators are about to set foot in Kentucky soon and that won’t necessarily go so well for the Beshear crew.

Oh, and Kerri Richardson? Don’t lie, sweetie. We have mutual friends who aren’t afraid to share what you have to say about your job and what goes on behind the scenes. I know that both you and your coworkers know exactly why Campbell was fired. You both know and have excrement on your hands for keeping your mouths shut.