Monday, 12 November 2007

Beshear's Appointments Begin

Steve "Good Ole Boy" Beshear's appointments are beginning to surface. The first official appointment came out Friday. It was a nice election payback for Johnathan Miller. If you don't remember, Miller dropped out of the race and threw his support behind Beshear which tipped the nomination in Beshear's favor. First Miller was given the reigns of the party and now Secretary of Finance. Of course there wasn't any "deal" made back in the primary. No that wouldn't happen. It is purely coincidence that Miller was the first named Secretary appointment.

Mary Lassiter, a long time Democratic insider, will be the budget director. Nothing quite like having Patton's budget directory back in place. Especially since he left office with a huge budget deficit.

Vicki Glass, the mouth of Stumbo, has upgraded and will now be the mouth of Beshear. I guess Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf was unavailable.

Posted by brians at 12:43 PM in Kentucky Politics

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Misc Election Tidbits

WHAS performed an interview with Anne Northup after the election. During the interview, Northup denied that her primary challenge contributed to Fletcher's defeat on Tuesday.

So her primary challenge strengthened Fletcher's position? I guess all of those negative attack ads that she ran for months were really helpful in his re-election efforts. And here I thought negative ads drive a candidate's numbers down. Who knew?

Posted by brians at 12:36 PM in Kentucky Politics

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