Does anyone in the Louisville metro area have warehouse space they’d be interested in providing to No Kill Louisville for its food bank? If so, please get in touch with Jake. [Contact Jake]
Is 2012 going to be a bumpy ride? Ronnie Ellis thinks so and he explains why. [Ashland Independent]
Ron Paul finally manned up (this time) to admit he had some responsibility for those ridiculous newsletters. [The Hill]
Leave it to the faux “family” folks in North Carolina to usurp Kentucky when it comes to hating the gays. Using sniper crosshairs to attack the gays. Cute. [HuffPo]
Here’s your first taste of the reality that even if a gambling amendment passes? The legislature may not be supportive of constitutionally guaranteeing gambling licenses to race tracks. [H-L]
Regardless of what happens today with the University of Louisville Hospital merger decision, Kentuckians will still be screwed. You already expect it, we know. [FOX41]
You’ve seen the corruption Greg Stumbo admits publicly he’ll do nothing about, right? Because it involves his friend, Keith Hall? The guy Crit Luallen fingered in a massive audit? The guy Jack Conway refuses to investigate? The guy the Ethics Commission fined and spanked? Yeah. [Page One]
Fresh off of making it clear that he’s protecting his friend, Keith Hall, Greg Stumbo decided to discuss the 2012 legislative session with the teevee folks. [WYMT]
Frankfort is still living in the dark ages, believing their pseudoephedrine legislation will solve the meth problem. Something that’s only really an issue in ten counties. And wouldn’t be if more than 30% of doctors and pharmacists actually used systems that already exist. But that’s the Kentucky way – raising costs to Medicaid, killing tax revenue and playing to fears. [C-J/AKN]
HAHA, are you still laughing over Michele Beard Bachmann’s staffers coming out of the closet for Overlord Ron Paul? She’s so crazy that the Paulbots can’t even back her. [Wonkette]
Don’t miss Comment on Kentucky tonight at 8:00 P.M. Eastern on KET. Scheduled guests: Ryan Alessi, Joe Arnold, Jack Brammer. Should be loosely entertaining, even though Ronnie Ellis won’t be there. [KET]
Students can’t afford real educations these days and they’re flocking to for-profit schools. So rather than actually help those folks, Jack Conway poked his head out of the turtle hole when it was politically beneficial for him. Now he’s back to not investigating Democrats and hating his critics. [HuffPo]
Crit Luallen isn’t running for the U.S. Senate and she isn’t going to run for governor. Her own current/former staffers say she’s just toying with things. [Ryan Alessi]
4 responses so far ↓
1 Curious // Dec 30, 2011 at 6:24 pm
Its a shame about Crit, She not only do Kentucky a service by defeating McConnel, she can also do the United States and Planet Earth a service.
Her defeating McConnell could be the most important election defeat in the next 100 years and could change the course America for history.
I’m not joking here. No one else can defeat McConnell in this state.
2 jake // Dec 30, 2011 at 6:28 pm
I adore Crit. It’s no secret that I hold her in the highest regard personally and professionally.
But I do not believe she can beat Mitch McConnell unless she gets all the right people behind her and that is unlikely at this stage in the game. Mitch would have to want to lose for that to occur.
However, I am not convinced (yet) that he is running for re-election.
3 Coup d'état // Dec 30, 2011 at 7:00 pm
If somehow we could overthrow the Democratic HQ, get some real Democrats in there, not people who are looking to boost their resume, she could do it.
I’m not talking about young volunteer Democrats, I’m talking getting some of the old Governors involved.
That place is currently so bad, they can’t afford paint to spruce up the walls. Its embarrassing to enter. They protect the information they have like its the baby Jesus, don’t share it unless you are “one of their buds”
They are unresponsive, uncaring and certainly do not know how to build a team atmosphere.
You can look at the races recently held. No teamwork with the campaigns except to throw some money at them.
Experience is what is needed and we certainly don’t have it at the Kentucky Democratic Republican HQ
4 Mark H (Not Hebert) // Jan 2, 2012 at 11:39 am
If Crit was going to run, she should have run against Rand Paul to save us from 6 years of embarrassment. I’m not a huge Mitch fan, but when you’re a state that pulls absolutely no weight nationally, you don’t vote out the Minority Leader in the Senate.
Instead we have to suffer through the media-whore ramblings of a father-son duo regurgitating ridiculously simplistic, damaging, and unrealistic policies.
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