Sure, Todd Hollenbach is the forgotten elected in Frankfort. Sure, he does everything like a 12-year-old attempting to mimic is father (which, well, let’s not go there). So it will likely come as a surprise to you that $134,000 in unclaimed property was handed out in Magoffin County recently. What won’t come as a surprise [...]

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Oh, looky here. Fresh off the heels of a disastrous state government audit that essentially indicted State Treasurer Todd Hollenbach with being childish, incompetent and wasteful comes news – from his office – that he screwed up payroll for nearly everybody in state government. Here’s the release/memo/whatever: OFFICE OF THE STATE TREASURER TODD HOLLENBACH NOTICE [...]

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This morning State Auditor Adam Edelen is releasing the first half of the annual state government audit. In it, he offers 62 findings with recommendations. Those 62 findings are related to deficiencies in internal controls of financial reporting, up from last year’s 53. This year’s audit also found eight material weaknesses that all relate to [...]

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On top of this afternoon’s earlier story about Little Todd Hollenbach and his problems with insurance… We hear an upcoming statewide audit may not be so kind to the little man. While no one in state government will confirm anything on the record, we have no reason not to suspect that personnel software the state [...]

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We hear through the Frankfort gayvine that Todd Hollenbach got a stern talking to from the State Insurance Commissioner. And maybe a nice tongue lashing from Bob Damron of the Banking & Insurance Committee. Wouldn’t you love to be a fly on the wall behind those scenes? Strangely, no one wants to talk about this.

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What happens in Kentucky if the Supreme Court of the United States decides that state bans on gay marriage are unconstitutional? Will heads literally start exploding? Will all the closet case faux family folks go insane? [NPR] The office of State Treasurer needs to be abolished. Democrats are costing this state tons of money by [...]

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I hear through the gayvine that Stephenie Steitzer will be Adam Edelen’s communications director. This may be Adam’s smarted decision in a long time. We all know her integrity is tops. [Frankfort Gets Better] Today Papaw Beshear directed the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to release all records contained in its reviews of child [...]

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AG Todd P’Pool: Why on earth didn’t you listen? You needed Democrats to win but you refused to do the right thing. You refused to campaign in Louisville, refused to ditch the anti-Obama bullshit and refused to focus on the needs of Kentucky. Every single time you were given good advice, you dismissed it entirely. [...]

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A few things stick out as big deals to us this morning: Todd P’Pool only won 45 out of 120 counties David Williams won 28 counties Bill Johnson won 31 counties John Kemper won 43 counties K.C. Crosbie won 57 counties Bob Farmer won only 9 counties Take a look at the Comer-Farmer map: That’s [...]

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It’s results time! We’ll update throughout the evening. Since this election basically sucks, we’ll focus on numbers with little commentary until tomorrow. Governor Beshear-Abramson – 464,635 – 55% Williams-Farmer – 295,434 – 35% Galbraith-Riley – 74,923 – 9% Attorney General Jack Conway – 450,079 – 55% Todd P’Pool – 368,973 – 45% Secretary of State [...]

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