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Kentucky Democrats Have Double Digit Lead In Upcoming Election On November 6, 2007

Steve Beshear's double digit lead is having a positive effect on the down ticket.  The Auditor's race, the Attorney General's race and the Treasurer's race are all locks.  And because of this effect, the Secretary of State race is head to head. Bruce Hendrickson has raised only $7000 -- and he's neck and neck with Trey Grayson who, until the last few weeks, thought he was safe. 

The Ernest Fletcher Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight

Ernest Fletcher admitted last night in the NKU debate that he works with "the judge-executives that supported us." That statement, standing alone,is an admission Ernest has practiced rabid partisan politics in his administration -- and isn't that why he got in trouble in the first place in his criminal hiring scandal, a scandal resulting in his plea bargain and 28 pardons (and every accepted pardon a implicit admission of guilt)?

Ernest -- the lesson here is the first thing one does when he finds himself in a hole is STOP DIGGING. Ernest apparently does not comprehend and has called in the heavy equipment to accelerate the excavation.

By the way, there are EIGHT (8) county judges in N. Ky -- how many of those judges supported Ernest Fletcher? Ernest only counts to THREE in N. Ky -- How many of them would recall seeing or hearing from Ernest in the last four years? How many of them have been denied funding for needed programs and infrastructure by the Ernest Administration because Ernest's feelings were hurt? Instead of the appropriate policy of 'Kentuckians Helping Kentuckians' Ernest chose, from Day One, to practice
"Republicans helping Republicans," the clear policy of the Ernest Administration. Sounds like a rehab program, doesn't it? Ernest,however, is beyond help.

This is exactly why Steve Beshear is going to defeat Ernest Fletcher in a landslide in November - Kentuckians are disgusted by Ernest's partisan politics,his 'Republicans Helping Republicans' policy and his gang, including those in the Senate, David Williams, Dan Kelley and Damon Thayer. And this is why the Republican Party will suffer defeat after defeat in the future - they have a demonstrated lack of ability to lead.

Ernest Fletcher, Outgoing Governor of Kentucky, has some 'splainin' to do.

Outgoing Governor Ernest Fletcher is a candidate in search of an issue.  He has proven he'll say or do anything to make a poll point.  Fletcher has jumped on the anti-illegal immigrant bandwagon; everyday he’s fabricating/exaggerating/lying about Steve Beshear and Kentucky Central; he’s flip-flopped on casinos in Kentucky, he’s handed out big photographs of checks in taxpayer money to buy votes in various parts of the state and he’s given away hundreds of millions in incentives to Peabody Coal for something I predict will go absolutely nowhere, as it did for the Germans in World War II.  I am firmly convinced that if Ernest thought he could make a point by supporting segregation, he would support segregation. He has certainly latched on to the present day version in attacking Hispanics.  Is he looking for a school house door to block?

This demonstrates, to me, the desperation in the Fletcher campaign.  Ernest is swinging for the cheap seats at every wild pitch in a desperate hope to connect - and he strikes out again and again. Not only that, it’s his negatives and his erratic behavior– Ernest did everything but foam at the mouth in his recent appearance debating Beshear on KET’s Kentucky Tonight (see the 9/17 program) Program; he pushed Beshear’s spokeswoman in the presence of the media in a fit of pique; Ernest’s $1,000 max contributions received are received from individuals with strong connections to contractors with whom Ernest’s Kentucky does business, and some of those contributors may very well have committed a Class D felony in Kentucky, not to mention a federal offense.  And just when will we learn the names of those contributing to Ernest’s secret Legal Defense Fund, or, to quote Steve Beshear, Ernest’s ‘plea bargain fund?’ 

Finally, I ask one specific question of Ernest Fletcher – has anyone associated with Elmo Greer & Sons, one of the largest highway contractors in the state, or the brothers who run the company -- Elmo Lee Greer, Jerry Greer and Rex Greer, contributed to that ‘plea bargain fund?’  Recent reports indicate a lot of people with connections to them have made the $1,000 max contribution to Ernest’s campaign – is Ernest prepared to answer the questions a lot of Kentuckians are asking, or will he continue to hide the names? We want to know now.

Hate Groups Rally in Frankfort to Promote Bigotry

Groups that co-opt the term 'family' in their names so as to garner unmerited credibility make me sick, from the Family Foundation to the Family Research Council to Focus on the Family. Whose family do they represent? Certainly not mine and not any family with which I am acquainted. And this issue and their stance proves that the Family Foundation is nothing more than another right wing hate group. Today's protestors in Frankfort would be appropriatey dressed in hoods and robes. Perhaps they could burn a cross, too.

Ernest Goes to Frankfort is a Bust!!

Ernest Fletcher, Kentucky's worst governor in history, has had his head handed to him by Democrats in the Kentucky House.  Ernest called a 'special session',' one that requires an emergency. Ernest thinks his re-election is such an emergency.  Jody Richards and House Democrats don't think so.  So they adjourned.  Ernest was last seen running with his tail tucked 'tween his legs.

Tom Burch and Brent Yonts are part of the problem, not part of the solution

See here legislation proposed by Yonts and Burch. Yonts wants to lower the aggravating factor in a DUI from .18 to .15 -- what next? Prohibition?  Stop the MADDness that is the new neo-temperance movement!!

• HB 149/LM (BR 386) - B. Yonts
       AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.
       Amend KRS 189A.010 to lower the blood alcohol level required to qualify as
  an aggravating factor from 0.18 to 0.15; to create a per se DUI violation for
  having certain controlled substances in one's blood or urine, and to create a
  rebuttable presumption of impairment for marijuana; amend KRS 218A.1415 to
  include ingested substances within the offense of possession of a controlled
  substance in the first degree; amend KRS 304.39-080 to include the prohibition
  on operating a motor vehicle without insurance from a penalty statute (KRS
  304.99-060) to a substantive statute.

And Tom Burch thinks that you're a criminal if you're fatigued while driving and an accident occurs causing a death.  Has he never encountered the civil action? Coming soon, criminalization of your Happy Meal, courtesy of Tom Burch x                                                   

• HB 150/CI (BR 86) - T. Burch
       AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.
       Amend 507.050 to establish that a death resulting from a motor vehicle
  operator who drives while fatigued, or who falls asleep while driving, shall be
  classified as a reckless homicide.

KY-5 no longer safe for the Republicans

Ryan Alessi of the Lexington Herald Leader analyzes the re-alignment as it occurs in Kentucky's 5th Congressional District. The 5th District is no longer safe for the GOP.  Ann Northup is booted out and the citizens of Jefferson County are waking up to the realization that the GOP is not their friend.  Next, it's time to taget Lewis and Whitfield in Western Kentucky.