Oh, wait, Gregory L. Wilson asked a judge to halt his September 16 execution. He’s apparently mentally retarded? [H-L]
Bill Johnson, like all people who turn into perennial candidates, says he’s going to run for Secretary of State or the State Senate. [Ryan Alessi]
Teabaggers in Louisville just can’t believe that the NAACP and African Americans would [...]

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In case you forgot, Holly Harris will be on KET at 8:00 P.M. Eastern with Steve Robertson. From the Dem side will be new KDP spokescritter Matt Erwin and new Republican chair of the KDP Daniel Logsdon. Maybe Holly will almost cut somebody like the last time she was on. I wouldn’t cross [...]

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Oh, look, the political genius/former stripper or whatever/obfuscatologist Mica toured some reclaimed mines in “the Applachia” and had this to say:

Isn’t it cute how this super-genius never discloses her sources of revenue, as the Federal Trade Commission requires? Almost as cute as her mastery of her native language.

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Two big reasons why Rand Paul’s ideas about addressing the drug problem in Eastern Kentucky are completely bogus and not based in reality. [Here & Here]
July food stamp participation in Kentucky jumped another one percent. Up 7,500 since June for a total of 794,818. 794,848! [Ugh]
Things aren’t looking too swell for Jack Conway in [...]

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In a report today, State Auditor Crit Luallen revealed major problems with the Knox County Fiscal Court.
The highlights:

$6,053 of credit card expenditures couldn’t be validated and weren’t properly documented
The county jail, which opened in 2008, doesn’t have polices and procedures in place for establishing segregation of duties and the safeguarding of assets
Vacation leave is being [...]

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Rand Paul still insists that drug abuse should be dealt with at the local level.
Has this man ever been to Eastern Kentucky and seen what local law enforcement does about the drug problem? Not to hate on small town law enforcement, but come on. A little bit of localized money isn’t gonna do [...]

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Oh, hey, Mica Sims, Jim Newberry’s very important teabagger girl, is touring some coal mines in Eastern Kentucky:

You can be sure she’ll be 100% up front and honest about everything. Sure she’ll wholly understand everything, as well.

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Hey, Bob, Layton, when you swipe something from me, you need to say so or ask permission. Particularly when it’s an image to which I edited and own the copyright. You folks can be pissy that I don’t shill for Democrats 24/7, but don’t break the law. I’m sure it was unintentional. [...]

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Remember when Bowling Green City Commissioner Catherine Hamilton got caught giving guys blowjobs in the park? It was maybe one of the best political sexytime stories of the entire year. The Board of Ethics says she didn’t violate the city’s code. If she had blown him inside city property, however, that’d be [...]

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The Education & Work Force Development Cabinet is touting the fact that unemployment rates fell in 111 of Kentucky’s 120 counties between July 2009 and July 2011.
Here’s what the cabinet said in a release earlier today:
Boyd County recorded the lowest jobless rate in the Commonwealth at 7.7 percent. They were followed by Fayette and Oldham [...]

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