There’s a billion dollar bait and switch going on with states diverting foreclosure deal funds. http://www.propublica.org/article/billion-dollar-bait-switch-states-divert-foreclosure-deal-funds States have diverted $974 million from this year’s landmark mortgage settlement to pay down budget deficits or fund programs unrelated to the foreclosure crisis, according to a ProPublica analysis. That’s nearly forty percent of the $2.5 billion in penalties [...]

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Larry Dale Keeling seems to think Jack Conway is playing pat-a-cake with Richie Farmer and he rightly thinks this tax reform commission is as silly as the rest of us. [H-L] Chris Christie and some other bloated white men love to claim Barack Obama is the least experience president ever. Apparently, they’ve never heard of [...]

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The Office of the Attorney General will neither confirm nor deny that they’re looking at Thomas Massie’s alleged violations of the Kentucky Open Meetings Act. But you know they want nothing more than to strangle a Rand Paul disciple. Here’s the gist: Massie didn’t provide notice for at least eight meetings of the Lewis County [...]

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Jack Conway’s failed U.S. Senate campaign is suing the Federal Elections Commission for fining him over a late campaign finance report. Conway says he sent the report but the FEC says it didn’t receive it. They’re completely melting down over the $4,950 fine. [FOX41] Aww, Michele Beard Bachmann decided to flip-flop and withdrew her Swiss [...]

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This wasn’t exactly the right story to be featuring on the front of the paper on the biggest tourism weekend of the year in Kentucky. Especially when it’s a hit on one of the state’s signature industries and sources of tax revenue. [The 'Ville Voice] A majority of Kentuckians favor a statewide smoking ban. Interesting [...]

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Greg Stumbo is calling for an investigation of Coventry Cares. Now that it’s politically safe for him to do so. [H-L] Defense spending trumps poverty in the Republican Congress. That’s how it always works with people like Hal Rogers and Ben Chandler. [Politico] Whattya mean the white supremacists aren’t crazy as hell? Another instance of [...]

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Here’s another photo of Jack Conway trying to scare kids about prescription drug abuse in Western Kentucky last week: “Public awareness plays an important role in our fight against prescription drug abuse,” General Conway said. “I am traveling the state to make sure Kentucky kids know that when they take a pill that wasn’t prescribed [...]

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Morgan McGarvey’s fellow Democratic opponents in the 19th District State Senate race keep urging us to discuss his background. Unfortunately, none of them have the guts to speak up about it. They’re terrified of the establishment. And that leads us to believe they’re no more fit to serve in public office than McGarvey. That said… [...]

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Maybe Steve Beshear and crew should have looked at what Passport does to properly manage its Medicaid patients before it pushed this latest mess through? Beshear loved to talk Passport up while pushing his Medicaid proposals and now he’s just ignoring a tremendous resource, it seems. [H-L] Did Richard Beliles finally wake up from his [...]

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Really, the Frankfort gossip circle never ends. Since some people think Crit Luallen is running for the U.S. Senate against Mitch McConnell (she’d lose, sadly), it’s best to address what the people around her say she wants to do. Lately, her people and those who work with Jack Conway, say the two are considering a [...]

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