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The Louisville Courier-Journal editorial board called it a “procoronavirus” protest rally that occured yesterday in Frankfort.  Joseph Gerth just called them “idiots.”  I think both are correct, and it was an “idiotic procoronavirus” rally.   Approximately 100 of the worst in humanity showed up to chant and try to disrupt Kentucky...

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  • April 16, 2020

He may or may not be a savior during this coronavirus pandemic, but Democratic Kentucky Govenor Andy Beshear is so much better than the anti-vaccine, chickenpox loving, and anti-science former Governor Matt Bevin.  As Josepth Gerth of the Louisville Courier-Journal reminds us, Bevin posted this on his Twitter account on...

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  • April 4, 2020

Looks like FORMER Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin — he lost reelection in November — fucked up with regards to one of his favorite rapists, Dayton Jones.  Seems that Bevin only commuted Dayton Jones sentence.  And it has been ruled by the new Democratic Governor Andy Beshear that Bevin issued a commution not a...

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  • January 17, 2020

Let’s see.  Socially conservative state-  Kentucky – that supposedly obsesses about abortions.  Check.  Big reason many Kentucky voters said they were voting for loathsome Republican Matt Bevin for governor.  Check. Said Republican governor tries to shut down last abortion provider in state. Check.  State legislature passes anti-choice laws designed to trigger...

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  • January 15, 2020

Here are some more ugly details of former Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin’s commutation of rapist Dayton Jones.  Trigger Warning for anyone who is a rape survivor. First up, some background.  Dayton Jones plead guilty to sodomizing with a sex toy a passed out 15 year old boy at a party.  Jones...

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  • January 12, 2020

Another day, another Kentucky criminal’s family pays to have them pardoned from prison.   GOP prosecutor took donations from sex offender's family, then pressed Bevin for a pardon The elected Republican commonwealth’s attorney in Christian County wrote to Gov. Matt Bevin last month seeking a pardon on behalf of a prominent...

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  • January 10, 2020

Matt Bevin may no longer be governor of Kentucky, but you can always count on Kentucky Republicans to do what is best for their constituents. /s.  Republicans control both houses of the state legislature, and guess what two issues they are promoting out of the starting gate for this year? ...

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  • January 10, 2020

While I grateful that Democrat Andy Beshear beat the corrupt Republican Governor Matt Bevin, Kentucky voters elected one of Moscow Mitch’s political cronies as state attorney general —  one Daniel Cameron.  When asked by the Courier-Journal if Cameron would investigate Bevin’s pardonfest, Cameron was Sphinxlike in his response: FRANKFORT — Freshly...

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  • December 26, 2019

Matt Bevin is a corrupt Republican — redundant I know — who just keeps on giving, and giving, and giving.  The latest:  an “emergency” lease deal worth $41 million dollars to a private prison facility.   On his final day in office, now former-Gov. Matt Bevin signed a 10-year, $41 million emergency lease...

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  • December 25, 2019

The Louisville Courier-Journal is reporting that the FBI is asking questions about former Governor Matt Bevin’s pardons.  For those not familiar with loser Matt Bevin, he issued a whole lot of pardons as he left office, and at least one of those pardons looks and smells like a pay for...

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  • December 24, 2019

Kentucky’s version of Donald Trump — loser former Governor Matt Bevin — just won’t go away no matter how much Kentucky Republicans wish it.  Bevin is an early Christmas present to Kentucky Democrats because he won’t STFU, especially about his criminal pardon fest as he was leaving office.  I’m not sure if...

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  • December 22, 2019

Once again, newly elected Democratic Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear has kept another campaign promise: signing an executive order that ended Matt Bevin’s “work requirements” for Medicaid.  For those not in the know, Republican Governor Matt Bevin hated, hated, hated the ACA and the Medicaid expansion under then Democratic Governor Steve...

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  • December 16, 2019

I’m not entirely sure what to make of this, but Senate President Robert Stivers — a Republican — has called on the Department of Justice to investigate former Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin’s pardons. Kentucky Senate President Robert Stivers is calling on the U.S. Attorney's Office to investigate the pardons issued by former...

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  • December 14, 2019

Between the SCOTUS decision to let stand Kentucky’s anti-abortion law and former Governor Matt Bevin’s middle finger to the justice system (see Meteor Blades’ diary on Bevin’s corrupt pardonfest), I wanted to let you all know about some good political news out of Kentucky. Democratic Govenor Andy Beshear shit canned...

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  • December 13, 2019

http://www.cbsnews.com/… http://www.courier-journal.com/… Andy Beshear promised to restore the voting rights of  more than 100,000 former felons in his Inaugural speech Tuesday. The newly elected governor won by 5,100 votes last month.  “My faith teaches me to treat others with dignity and respect. My faith also teaches forgiveness,” Beshear, a Democrat,...

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  • December 11, 2019

Donald Trump faced a harsh reality Tuesday night, when Kentucky voters showed that they weren’t swayed, just the day before, by his impassioned speech to come out and vote for one of his minions, Matt Bevin, simply because it would personally help him out. “You gotta vote because if you lose, it sends...

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  • November 6, 2019

As for now, Andy Beshear is declared the “apparent winner” of the Kentucky governor’s race.  If it holds, which I think it will, THANK GOD!  But given how the rest of the voting went for the rest of the Kentucky statewide offices, Republicans will spin their loss of the governorship...

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  • November 6, 2019

static1.squarespace.com/… Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear has a sizeable lead in the Kentucky Governor’s race against unpopular Republican incumbent Governor Matt Bevin. According to a poll released by PollSmart MR, Beshear leads Bevin 50% to 32% among registered voters and 54% to 33% among likely voters. When leaners are added...

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  • October 24, 2019

OK.  My mood took a nose dive when I saw this last public poll in Kentucky on the upcoming governor’s race: Mason-Dixon poll: Matt Bevin and Andy Beshear tied in race for Kentucky's governor A new survey conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy shows Republican Gov. Matt Bevin and Democratic Attorney General Andy Beshear deadlocked in...

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  • October 20, 2019

Just how bad do you have to be to lose re-election as the right-wing conservative incumbent in one of the reddest states in the union? I ask because that’s exactly what is happening right now in Kentucky. The election is less than a month away, and Matt Bevin is ranked the most unpopular...

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  • October 13, 2019

Just how bad do you have to be to lose re-election as the right-wing conservative incumbent in such a red state? I ask because that’s exactly what is happening right now in Kentucky. The election is less than a month away, and Matt Bevin is ranked the most unpopular governor in the U.S.,...

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  • October 13, 2019

Please clap … Ryland Barton is a statehouse reporter for Kentucky Public Radio, and he’s got the scoop from today’s “Puppet Show and Donald Trump Jr.” event in Pikeville, Kentucky: x Organizers have asked the audience to move out of the seats and closer to the stage ahead of Trump Jr/ Gov. Bevin...

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  • August 29, 2019

Planned Parenthood paid fora  poll of Kentuckians to find out their views on abortion rights, and I was surprised by the results: Asked whether it’s important for women in Kentucky to have “access to all of the reproductive health care options available, including abortion,” 65% said yes, according to the...

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  • August 8, 2019

Not sure what got into the Courier-Journal’s coffee, but they had a lot of political news today. The Prince of Fucking Darkness — Mitch McConnell — is doing fine with Wall Street campaign contributions. FRANKFORT — Boosted by big bundles of Wall Street contributions, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's reelection committee took...

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  • July 17, 2019

Seems some folks in the Republican establishment want to send a message to Republican Congressman Thomas Massie (KY-4th):  we don’t like you being a pain in the ass.  Phillip M. Bailey of the Courier-Journal has a couple of sources who confirmed that the GOP establishment is trying to recruit a...

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  • July 3, 2019

Governor Matt Bevin and the Republican legislature have nothing else better to do than pass more restrictive abortion laws in the hopes that they make it to the SCOTUS and Roe v. Wade is overturned.  How is that going so far? Once again, Kentucky Republican politicians acted like doctors and...

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  • May 18, 2019

http://www.wcpo.com/… Republican Governor of Kentucky Matt Bevin is the least popular in the nation, according to a poll released today by Morning Consult. Bevin has an approval of 33% versus 52% who disapprove. He’s not alone as an unpopular Kentucky politician, although at least Mike Pence seems to like him. Morning Consult’s...

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  • April 26, 2019

Trump mini-me Governor Matt Bevin of Kentucky never misses a chance to keep going lower  Thankfully, this also applies to his approval rating.  But first, Bevin’s latest attack on public school teachers: More attention must be spent on looking at behavioral health and firearms safety as opposed to the government...

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  • April 25, 2019

I can see why Mitch McConnell moved on removing those economic sanctions against the Russians.  It wasn’t just at Trump’s bidding: Kentucky might be going into business with the Russian mafia. Not the rough-and-tumble “Godfather” crowd with the bent noses and such names like Tessio, Barzini and Luca Brasi. If...

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  • April 23, 2019

Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin exposed his kids to chickenpox instead of getting them vaccinated. “Every single one of my kids had the chickenpox,” Bevin said in an interview with WKCT, a Bowling Green talk radio station. “They got the chickenpox on purpose because we found a neighbor that had it...

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  • March 21, 2019

The Louisville Courier-Journal is reporting that two anti-public school teacher bills that were advancing in the state legislature are dead:  Legislation that drove hundreds of teachers to shutdown Kentucky's two largest school districts — and motivated Jefferson County teachers to continue calling out sick — will not reach the governor's...

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  • March 13, 2019

If I was McConnell, I would be sending a big “Thank You!” note to Governor Matt Bevin.  Like other Daily Kossacks, I want to see McConnell under a microscope for all his political evil and rank corruption, but guess what the focus has been in the local media?  Yes, Matt...

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  • February 1, 2019

Schaden-fantastic! From the Lexington Herald-Leader: Citing “conduct that violates civil rights,” lawyers for Gov. Matt Bevin say former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis should be held responsible for nearly $225,000 in legal fees and court costs incurred by couples who sued her in 2015 when she refused to issue marriage licenses because of her...

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  • January 31, 2019

Kentucky has the dubious honor to have elected some of the most evil and stupid people possible to government positions — Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul, Thomas Massie, and Matt Bevin.  Given Trump’s government shutdown defeat, I was watching a lot of TV — MSNBC — and scanning local and state media for the...

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  • January 26, 2019

According to Joseph Gerth of the Louisville Courier-Journal, Kentucky Republican Governor Matt Bevin’s rant against ProPublica’s partnership with the Courier-Journal is more about his auditioning for a job with Trump than further investigations into his own corrupt dealings here in KY.  It appears that ProPublica has a podcast that is...

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  • December 16, 2018

From the Louisville Courier-Journal: Marse Bevin — according to WFPL — went to the Kentucky Registered Apprenticeship Summit on Monday and extolled the virtues of indentured servitude as being something akin to an early form of an apprenticeship. My history teacher in high school didn’t spend a lot of time going over...

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  • September 13, 2018

It’s difficult to get any polling data about Kentucky political races because…Well, I really do not know why.  Probably because we are a poorer state with fewer people?  Shrugs.  But it seems that Morning Consult poll out in July found that Bevin’s approval rating had plummeted to just 29%.  According...

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  • August 18, 2018