Seriously, AP? First you’re suing people who use more than five words at a time from your stories and now you’re quoting Brett Hall– who was fired for dropping the f-bomb at an Ernie Fletcher press conference– as a reliable Republican strategist in a story about Steve Beshear and ethics?
Beshear had taken […]

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George W. Bush has something wrong with him. Is the man retarded? Republicans, please teach him how to save face. [Ditch Mitch]
The Executive Branch Ethics Commission is proceeding with the investigation of four Fletcher administration folks. Jim Adams, Basil Turbyfill, Dan Druen and Darrell Brock. [C-J]
It’s always interesting to read […]

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Aww, Mitch is on the Facebook and Joe hearts him. Lookit.
The KDP’s Jeremy Horton is afraid of Joe and some Shark Lady has the Fayette Co Democratic Party Chair believing he’s not a Democrat. Fancy.
Bruce Lunsford walked the parade route in Murray while Mitch McConnell rode around in a car. Even fancier. […]

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You’ll recall that the Public Service Commission was the first agency to be investigated during the administration of former Governor Ernie Fletcher because of alleged ties between PSC commissioners and utilities. Nothing serious was discovered but the PSC put into place policy to make meetings more open and transparent.
That brings us to today. […]

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The hot rumor we’re hearing out of Transportation officials in Kentucky is that former Williamsburg Mayor and former Fletcher Administration Transportation Secretary Bill Nighbert struck a plea deal that will become public in July.
Nighbert, you’ll recall, played a fancy role in the merit hiring scandal of the Fletcher era.
Soooo. We’re all wondering, right? […]

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Public Citizen just announced that the blog ban/censorship case against the Commonwealth has been settled:
WASHINGTON, DC - June 17 - The Commonwealth of Kentucky has settled a lawsuit with a political blogger whose critical comments of then-Gov. Ernie Fletcher resulted in the state “blacklisting” all blogs on state-owned computers.
Public Citizen’s client Mark Nickolas, author of […]

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Two mainstream media outlets wrote about the Republican Party’s press conference calling Steve Beshear out for using the governor’s mansion for a political fundraiser. Both outlets repeated that Ernie Fletcher never held a fundraiser at the mansion, which isn’t true. We proved that yesterday. [H-L, C-J]
Attorney General Jack Conway just announced that […]

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Like we mentioned earlier, Ernie Fletcher used the governor’s mansion for the purposes of raising campaign funds. And we just dug up a couple articles pointing out instances involving highway contractors.
The Republican Party of Kentucky released a statement questioning Steve Beshear’s ethics, which is fair to do. Just not with this issue.
From the […]

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After saying for weeks that he would support Joni Jenkins in a bid for House Speaker Pro-Tem, Greg Stumbo is now telling the press that he’s interested in that leadership post. That’s after basically deciding he doesn’t want to run against Jody Richards or Rocky Adkins. Imagine that. [C-J]
Ernie Fletcher’s gonna be […]

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It’s official. ABBA is the pick of fancy Republicans like former Governor Ernie Fletcher and super-old Senator John McCain.
In October 2007 we learned that Ernie’s favorite song was “Take a Chance On Me” by ABBA:
Q: What three songs do you play most often?
Fletcher: Stranger by the Shore, Staying Alive, Take a Chance on Me.
Beshear: […]

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