Wednesday, 15 July 2009
KY's One Trick Pony Governor
Gov Beshear is not very imaginative. In fact he appears to be very simple minded. How else can you explain his obsession with gambling? His solution to everything is gaming. It is the only tool in his very tiny tool box. He has been beaten twice and still it is all he can think to do. Which leads us to the news of the day.
How completely transparent is this attempt to change the senate? These are the first appointments of the Beshear administration that weren't cronies. Maybe they ran out of cronies? I doubt it. They are just trying to change the field so they can pass gambling. Is it just me? Or is anyone else getting tired of Beshear's never ending schemes to pass an expansion of gaming. The worst part is we still have two more years of this one trick pony show.
Update 7/16: Here is confirmation that the plan all along was to remove Republicans.
Kentucky Roll Call, a Frankfort-based newsletter about Kentucky politics, is reporting without attribution that Gov. Steve Beshear soon will appoint two Republican state senators to positions that would remove them from the legislature.Beshear said after his second defeat that we must change their minds or replace them. What better way to begin the process of replacing them than to appoint Republicans to the positions that will take them out of the Kentucky Senate. It will open up special elections that will allow Democrats a chance to pick up two seats in the Senate.
The newsletter says that Senate Majority Leader Dan Kelly of Springfield will be appointed to an unexpired term as a circuit court judge that will keep him on the bench through 2014 and Senate budget chairman Charlie Borders of Russell will become one of three commissioners on the state Public Service Commission.
How completely transparent is this attempt to change the senate? These are the first appointments of the Beshear administration that weren't cronies. Maybe they ran out of cronies? I doubt it. They are just trying to change the field so they can pass gambling. Is it just me? Or is anyone else getting tired of Beshear's never ending schemes to pass an expansion of gaming. The worst part is we still have two more years of this one trick pony show.
Update 7/16: Here is confirmation that the plan all along was to remove Republicans.
Democrats are hopeful that the special election is a step toward regaining control of the Senate, which they lost in 2000, and approving slot machines at horse racetracks. A slots bill died last month in the Senate budget committee, which Borders chaired.Sad. I will laugh when Republicans retain any seats Beshear attempts to buy.
Senate President David Williams, R-Burkesville, said Beshear is trying to make similar offers to other Republican senators. Specifically, he said that Senate Majority Leader Dan Kelly, R-Springfield, might leave the Senate if he is offered a judgeship.
Posted by at 10:24 PM in Kentucky Politics
