We’re wondering how he’ll line the pockets of his wealthy friends and family in the next year.

How long did it take his daddy to come up with that and email it to him?

Robert Wilcher, one of two Kentucky Retirement Systems board members representing county employees, resigned today. The board gets to appoint someone to fill his term. [Deep KRS Shenanigans]

From the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet: As mandated by the Kentucky Legislature, uninsured motorists across the Commonwealth will begin receiving notices in June that registrations for their personal vehicles will be canceled if they do not obtain required insurance or show proof of existing insurance. [Press Release & More Info]

This ad against Gary Moore and Alecia Webb-Edgington from the teabagger kid in Texas is hilarious. Alecia missed some votes and Gary went on a work trip. Ha. [Joe Gerth]

State Rep. Tim Moore is currently in flight training as part of his duty with the Air Force Reserve. Maybe he should fly over West Liberty to reflect on his insensitive and gross remarks about political choices and deadly storms? He sure needs a reality check on that front. [Deep Frankfort Thoughts]

Where the heck was this Herald-Leader editorial writer as all this was going down? Oh, right, completely ignoring the political realities of Frankfort. [H-L]

Secretary of State Alison Grimes says no one is going to vote in next Tuesday’s primary election. [Press Release]

Mitch McConnell is really mad at the Democrats again this week. He’s so mad he could spit if he had lips. [The Hill]

The Cabinet for Health and Family Services has launched a new website it says will enhance customer service re: child support. Customers can make payments, update information and check appointments. [Press Release]

Even Fox News says President Barack Obama is ahead of Mittens Romney. And that’s from their poll. [Politico]

For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing. [NPR]

The Texas teachers’ pension fund invested in casinos and lost $99 million. Those casino owners who got the investment? They were Gov. Rick Perry’s donors. Sounds just like Kentucky! [Dallas Morning News Here & Here]

New claims for jobless benefits last week held at levels suggesting sluggish growth in hiring and factory activity in the mid-Atlantic region contracted in May, worrisome signs for a still-fragile economic recovery. [Reuters]

Now Steve Beshear has a good excuse to get rid of one of Daniel Mongiardo’s last guys, Jerry Lunsford. [H-L]

Will the Obama Campaign create a fancy website like this to hit Mittens Romney on his flip-floppy anti-gay ways? [Romney Economics]

You should read this scathing op-ed about Steve Beshear’s road budget veto harming the residents of Clinton County. [H-L]

For evangelicals and mouth-breathers, Mittens Romney is the lesser of two evils. I.E., Mormon cultists are easier to vote for than non-whites. [NPR]

How are the foreigns looking at the JPMorgan Chase scandal? With a lot more concern than those in the U.S., obviously. [BBC]

If you like JPMorgan’s $2 billion loss, you will like Mittens Romney and love Ron Paul. [The Hill]

Really, Southern Political Report? Let’s get a few things straight: Kentucky’s office of Homeland Security has nothing to do with national security and everything to do with doling out cash to buy radios and promote the governor. Otherwise Adam Edelen would never have held the position. And there is no race including Democrats because the Kentucky Democratic Republican Party can’t put a successful KY04 unit together if its life depends on it. [Eyes Rolling Hard]

This cat-lick school in Lexington refused to allow a lesbian couple to attend prom because it “upholds every teaching of the cat-lick church.” Which must mean all the churchymen there are perverts. [H-L]

People would just cold freak out if the mainstream media in Louisville ever published an Ohio River Bridges Debacle story like the one this Southern Indianner paper ran. [The 'Ville Voice]

A shiny new pipe dream? Capturing the carbon dioxide from power stations is not hard but it is expensive. A new project in Norway aims to make it cheaper. [The Economist]

We thought this already happened? Rand Paul endorsed Thomas Massie. He says Massie can make a difference… by being just like him and accomplishing absolutely nothing. [Ryan Alessi]

Remember that whole thing a few years ago, something about how the banks ruined the housing industry, your employment prospects, your children’s employment prospects, and the entire country, really, and in turn got billions of dollars from the taxpayers and continue to rake enormous bonuses and pretty much set the economic policy of the entire nation? [Wonkette]

You will probably pee a little bit (PEE ALERT) when you see this Republican congresscritter with an extreme case of the gay face saying businesses should be allowed to fire employees because they’re gay. [HuffPo]

Why is he always so anxious lately?

Haha, yeah, sorry bout yer luck!

At least, that’s what Steve Beshear and his Personnel Secretary, Tim Longmeyer, say in this letter to employees:

CLICK FOR PDF

The budget enacted by the General Assembly for FY 2010-2012 mandates that the regular payroll of June 30, 2012 cannot be issued prior to July 1, 2012. Therefore, please be advised that the payroll you would have received on Friday, June 29, 2012 will be received on Monday, July 2, 2012.

-SNIP-

Make alternative arrangements: No amount from the June 30, 2012 payroll may be paid to employees before Monday, July 2, 2012, which is the first banking day of the new fiscal year. Agencies are not to provide these checks early to employees, and banking institutions have been advised that these checks should not be cashed early. Please make alternative arrangements as you deem fit. Keep in mind that the July 4th holiday is also that week — this is important for any travel plans you may have.

The letter was only sent out on April 30 so many employees are just finding out.

Whoopsiedaisy.

If you think Hillary Clinton isn’t considering a run for the presidency after Barack Obama’s second term, you’ll probably want to read this. [NYT]

Hal Rogers’ staff finally decided it was time to give up the Commodore 64 and join the Twatter. [Press Release]

What happens to a two-party political system when one party goes mad (teabagger)? Does the world come to an end? [The Economist]

It’s official. Laurel County wants to give Clay County a run for its crazy money. Some guy was arrested for shooting at a passing car. [WKYT]

Mitch McConnell just cannot stand that political spending on television ads should be readily available for examination. He believes free speech should come at a cost – i.e., you should have to spend 50 cents per page and take time off work to go see what a campaign is spending on television. [National Journal]

Money always trumps childhood health. Even when it’s common sense. [Reuters]

This guy in Indiana has felony convictions for lying about his voter registration. Meanwhile, Democrats in Frankfort like Ruth Ann Palumbo aren’t even questioned about their illegal registrations. [WFPL]

What was that, again, about Steve Beshear not playing politics with the Road Fund? Look at the size of Greg Stumbo’s unnecessary project compared to that of David Williams. Who got their project? It wasn’t Williams. [Al Cross]

This should make you feel really safe and should further illustrate that Richie Farmer is dumb as hell. A distant relative of former Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer worked in the Department of Agriculture for nearly five years as an amusement ride inspector despite never receiving certification to do the work. [H-L]

Here’s Mittens Romney making yet another gaffe about, you know, reality. Don’t worry about student loans, just borrow $20,000 from your parents to start a business! Because they totally have $20K in checking to give you. [Wonkette]

You can’t even go out for cheap Chinese food in Lexington these days without someone driving their car into the restaurant. [WLEX18]

Thomas Massie can’t refuse that pension he said he would turn down. He’d have to donate it to charity like John Yarmuth does with his salary. [Ryan Alessi]

Of course, he’s patting himself on the back for the budget… which he barely got passed, again, because he didn’t bother working with anyone.

Also: leg-iss-lay-torez, meeyun, continyuh.

Take a look at his statement, released at 1:23 A.M.:

Statement by Gov. Beshear on Senate’s Refusal to Pass Prescription Drug bill, Transportation Budget

Blasts Sen. Williams for continued obstruction; special session starts Monday

FRANKFORT, Ky. (April 13, 2012) – The following is a partial transcript of Governor Steve Beshear’s comments to reporters following the end of the regular session.

“For twelve years, Kentucky and Kentuckians have suffered at the hands of Senate President David Williams. His rank partisanship, his obstructionist attitude has caused numerous special sessions and has cost taxpayers millions of dollars in unnecessary expenses in conducting business that ought to be done in regular sessions …

We had hopes that he had learned a lesson from the general election last November and he would take a different attitude. We were glad when for the first time in the last six years, we were actually able to pass the executive budget in the regular session. However, my happiness did not last long because the old David Williams surfaced once again, and he has caused the Senate to refuse to pass the Transportation Budget bill. Without the Transportation budget bill, we can’t fund any of the projects in the Transportation Plan that had been passed.

In addition, he has caused the failure of House Bill 4, the bill that would have allowed Kentucky to take an aggressive stance against illegal prescription drug abuse. By his failure and by his actions in not allowing that bill to pass the Senate, he is responsible for the continuing agony of hundreds of thousands of families around this state who have members who are suffering from various types of drug abuse. We need that bill. …

I am going to be issuing a call for a special session of the General Assembly to begin on this next Monday at 12 noon. The call will have on it the Transportation budget bill and House Bill 4, which is the prescription drug abuse bill.

… It’s time that people of this state know loudly and clearly what the problem is here. If you go back twelve years, it covers three Governors. Two Democrats and a Republican. Every one of us have had the same problems with Sen. Williams. Special session after special session after special session. The one common denominator is Sen. Williams.”

Yep, special session coming.

No responsibility for his own actions.

No mention of him not bothering to work with legislators to get things passed.

No real discussion of what’s going wrong in Frankfort. Just a heap of blame against an opponent – something the Beshear crew love to do.

Meanwhile, Kentucky loses even more tax dollars on worthless legislators and Beshear passes the buck.

You know you want to win a fancy copy of Jim Higdon’s Cornbread Mafia! Go enter ASAP and consider supporting his Kickstarter project to take the book on tour. [Page One]

Just what Clay County needs – another elected official going to prison for 19 years on a drug case. [H-L]

Like everything Mittens Romney says or does, he’s trying to rewrite and whitewash his own history. This time it’s about guns and the NRA. [HuffPo]

Kenny Coleslaw went from this headline: Lawmakers Reach Deal on Road Plan, Avoiding Possible Special Session to this headline: Lawmakers Reach Deal on Road Plan, But Don’t Pass Funding Mechanism after Beshear called for a special session last night (more on that later this morning). Then the original story re: no special session happening disappeared. What gives? [WFPL]

You know how Papaw Beshear harped for several months about how his tax breaks had done all kinds of things for Kentucky? Turns out, Kentucky and other states don’t really track tax breaks well so there’s no way to know. [Politico]

Isn’t it awesome having a neo-Nazi, Anti-Semitic, racist hate group taking over Frankfort? Not much different than the state legislature. [C-J/AKN]

Some business owners in West Liberty are beginning the rebuilding process. Though, most won’t be able to rebuild. [WKYT]

Scientists have linked a rise in earthquakes to wastewater wells. But you’ll likely never hear that discussed in Frankfort unless it involves Jim Gooch talking about how Jesus says there’s no global warming. [NPR]

Sad Ron Paul says he is flat broke and won’t be able to run for King of the Hobbits any longer unless everybody throws mountains of golden Ameros at him. [The Hill]

Oh, look, a super-rich mouth-breather who loves Santorum Froth is maybe gonna throw some sweet, sticky cash to Mittens Romney. [Wonkette]

Drought is expending throughout the United States. Maybe we’ll all get lucky and we’ll have even more poor people starving because maybe there won’t be anything to eat or drink, amen. [USA Today]

We’re all shocked that Kentucky isn’t on this list of top ten most corrupt states. [24/7 Wall St]