Need a laugh, Kentucky? A handful of House Republicans (Jeff Hoover, Jim DeCesare and the like) are literally losing their minds over Chris Hightower’s campaign advertising on Page One. It’s like they’re willing to just hand the race to Martha Jane King. And it’s proof that any rhetoric they offer about supporting small business is just that – rhetoric. Coming after our ability to earn a living is a mistake on the part of Republicans in Frankfort. [Republican Hypocrites]
Another day, another Richie Farmer-related scandal. A former marketing director for organic foods at the Kentucky Department of Agriculture allegedly used his state-issued email and car to do private consulting while on state time, an ethics panel charged on Monday. There’s a nice Kentucky Retirement Systems tidbit hidden in there, too. Will the KRS continue to give the tidbit guy free legal services after the ethics charges? [Bluegrass Politics]
Former President Bill Clinton vouched for Barack Obama’s economic record on Sunday, making his case for the president to have a second term. In an appearance on CBS’ “Face The Nation,” Clinton reasoned that no president would have “magically” delivered a “fully healed” economy in four years. [HuffPo]
Mittens Romney is a science genius who thinks airplane windows should open. Yes, you read that correctly. [Wonkette]
Way to go, Steve Beshear, for continuing this mess. The CEO of a major Medicaid managed care company (MCO) is criticizing Kentucky for the way the state deals with businesses like his. [WFPL]
As Mittens stumbles, the President regains his mojo. The recent shifts in the polls may be less about Mittens Romney than they are about President Obama. [WaPo]
Poor Andy Barr is silly to think threatening a lawsuit for pointing out someone portraying a lowly coal miner as a coal company executive is going to help him get votes. [H-L]
New voting laws in 23 of the 50 states could keep more than 10 million Hispanic U.S. citizens from registering and voting, a new study said on Sunday, a number so large it could affect the outcome of the November 6 election. [Reuters]
With important details still hazy, The Associated Press asked the Romney campaign five questions about how his Medicare plan would affect consumers on critical matters of costs and benefits. Some of the questions remained unresolved after the campaign’s responses. [HuffPo]
Kentucky officials are set to hold a public hearing on a new proposal for the execution method for condemned inmates. [WKYT]
Those emergency rooms work really well for medical problems that require long-term treatment, don’t they? Way to go, Mittens Romoney! [DailyKos]
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1 Novena // Sep 25, 2012 at 8:25 am
“Is Mitt the Right Stuff?”
Anne: “Now the media is getting on you because you want open windows in airplanes. What next?”
Mitt: “They don’t know my background that specifically prepared me for that call.”
Anne: “Like what?”
Mitt: “I was an English major. I loved poems that described sunsets and gleaming stars.”
2 hmmm // Sep 25, 2012 at 8:49 am
There have been references to the new Agriculture Commissioner’s love of the media or at least attention from the media. That now appears to be confirmed. The Attorney General’s office and the FBI will neither confirm nor deny an FBI investigation of Richie Farmer and his employees. Comer apparently ran to the media to let them know. Could back fire since everybody knows that Farmer’s right hand was Bruce Harper. Comer promoted Harper to be his deputy commissioner even though that report indicated he’s the one who reserved hotel rooms in employee names for Farmer and his family to use at department expense. Sure it had nothing to do with Harper and his wife donating money to Comer and helping with his fundraising. Same old magic tricks in Frankfort…look at what he did with his right hand (but pay no attention to my left).
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