Cabinet Secretary and State Budget Director Mary Lassiter sent a memo to state cabinet and agency heads regarding personnel restrictions.
Effective immediately:

ACE & ERA awards are suspended indefinitely
Employees are no longer allowed to work more than 40 hours per week except to “prevent or eliminate public or life safety situations” or to meet deadlines
Block 50/discretionary payments [...]

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Tomorrow, Secretary of State Trey Grayson will speak in Paducah at the Americans with Disabilities Act anniversary celebration. The topic? How we’ve made voting more accessible in Kentucky. 10:00 A.M. Central Time. Accessing Your Power – A Celebration of the ADA and Your Voting Rights. Roberty Cherry Civic Center. 2701 [...]

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What happens when you do the right thing for education? You get fired and trashed all over the place. [Page One]
Rand Paul’s position on farm subsidies won’t be helping him with the Kentucky Farm Bureau crowd. [H-L]
The teabaggers, particularly the Freemason motorcyclist-types, say health care is just something you buy. Like a car [...]

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Daniel Mongiardo, Whiny Ass Titty Baby with a case of extreme gay panic, is STILL whining about Jack Conway beating his ignorant ass in May. Still. I used to think the guy had a bit of a political future left. Now I think he was dropped on his head as a child. [...]

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So, that fancy Northern Kentucky GOP unity rally was held a week(ish) ago. Remember that Rand Paul funtimes party? It was allegedly planned for months, but Trey Grayson was only notified about the event after a story about it went public. No one from Rand Paul’s world bothered to make sure he [...]

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Since there’s all kinds of buzz about Phil Moffett being the teabagger candidate in the 2011 gubernatorial race, let’s take a trip down memory lane. [Page One Flashback]
Rush Limbaugh is on pills again, using the death of George Steinbrenner to race-bait. [Media Matters]
Aw, some teabaggers compared Nobama to Hitler on a billboard. [Wonkette]
Last night, President [...]

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Ugh. Could it get more exciting out there, kids? The Legislative Research Commission is cutting 23 positions and the Judicial Branch is cutting 160 (on top of the 132 jobs cut since last year).
Check out this email Rep. Derrick Graham sent to state employees:
Dear State Employees:
Several of you have asked about the implementation [...]

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Rand Paul wants to starve meemaw and poppop to death. [H-L]
Kentucky’s long-term cost to balance the budget is at least $66.3 million. [Ryan Alessi]
The absolute most hilarious and awesome thing for the Democrats? If David Adams or any other teabagger runs for governor. More importantly, if paid Rand Paul staffers are currently playing with [...]

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Cabinet heads and executive/constitutional office holders today received a letter from State Budget Director Mary Lassiter regarding the $131 million spending cut.
Here’s an excerpt:
The FY 2011 budget enacted by the General Assembly in the 2010 Special Session relies upon $131 million in additional spending reductions to balance. The Executive Branch budget bill, House Bill [...]

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Papaw Beshear and Jody Richards (with his metrosexual glasses) were on AutoBlog last week. Totally missed that! [Click the Clicky]
State Government killed contracts for organizations providing services for youth leaving foster care. Something about overloaded, understaffed state workers being able to do a better job. $625,000. Like the good folks in [...]

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