Monday, 19 November 2007
The Crony Express III
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Steve Beshear has named the person who will take over the Department of Transportation. The DOT has historically been the most corruption of any departments. So who does Beshear pick for the spot? Joe Prather. Imagine that! Another crony from previous administrations.
Incoming Gov. Steve Beshear has tapped well-known political figure Joe Prather to head the Transportation Cabinet, which has had its share of problems over the years.I was wondering what direction we would see from the Beshear camp with regards to cabinet secretaries. I figured it would have a bunch of cronies, but I thought he would be smart enough to try to bring in some outsiders. Instead, his first couple of appointments have been cronies. His latest appointment is yet another long term crony. I can't believe he picked a long time insider to lead the most corrupt department in the state. I don't think I could have written that script. Hey, at least people can't say Beshear isn't living up to his campaign slogan "Taking care of our own". It's a shame that most people thought that meant all Kentuckians and not Democratic cronies. Looks more and more every day that the next four years will look like the past 30 years before Fletcher.
Prather, of Elizabethtown, served as president pro tem of the state Senate from 1976 to 1986. He will replace outgoing Secretary Bill Nighbert.
Prather, 67, served three terms in the state House, beginning in 1967, and was elected to the state Senate in 1973. He was elected president pro tem of the Senate in 1976 and served through the end of 1986.
Prather also has been chairman of the state Democratic Party and was a member of the Democratic National Committee from 1983 to 1984.
During the first year of Democratic Gov. Brereton Jones’ administration, Prather was secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet.
Posted by at 11:03 AM in Kentucky Politics
The recycling continues with more recycled waste, fraud experience, abuse of the system.