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More Shoes About to Fall in State Senate?
4 CommentsPosted November 3rd, 2009 6:05 am
Even before the ink is dry on the lineups for the 14th Senate District special election contest on December 8, speculation is flying about whether more special elections are coming. One obvious current opening at a very high level is the Cabinet Secretary position for the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet, following the resignation of Secretary Helen Mountjoy, which will be effective November 30.
A senator with a background in education and with several years already in retirement benefits would stand to have both a crowning career achievement and a dramatic boost in retirement benefits if such a placement occurred.
September 29, 2009 Beshear Fundraiser at R.J. Corman’s Airport Hangar
The speculation this summer had been swirling as well that Republican State Senator Tom Buford could similarly seek a higher position within the administration of Governor Steve Beshear. Since then, of course, Buford attended the Beshear-Abramson fundraiser at Nicholasville Republican R. J. Corman’s business location in Nicholasville, and both he and his wife have each contributed the maximum $1,000 contribution to Beshear’s re-election campaign.None of this speculation comes from any source inside the Beshear adminstration, so it may be as accurate as predictions of the U.K. football team going undefeated in 2009. Still, the speculation is being heard from different areas of the state. In addition, there is separate speculation about “flipping” a Republican senator if Haydon wins; that is, having a senator who would either change parties or caucus with the Democratic Party. It is highly possible that before the next general election, control of the Kentucky State Senate
4 Responses to “More Shoes About to Fall in State Senate?”
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kentondem1 November 3rd, 2009 at 11:39 am
Bob, I think you are definitely on to something here.
Politics in KY are the damnedest!
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As much as most liberal Loggerheads would like to just “fire” Republicans. Beshear has it right … if we pay them to go away, they will. Republicans are the ultimate form of prostitutes. Remember the old hooker joke about quarters & ears? Well put a quarter in a Republican’s ear & it will talk us to death; put the same quarter in its pocket & it will go away. Moral of the story: money in its pocket is out of sight and so is the Republican.
Yellow Dog and the rest of the puritanical liberals need to dial it back and understand that the lack of moral fibre we see in Rebublicans is what keeps them from being rational and manageable. Under the Beshear plan, they disappear; Yellow Dog’s screaming at them didn’t get rid of even one.
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You know, the Republicans didn’t originally control the state senate by “firing” Democrats. They did it by the exact sort of the damndest politics — by getting some Democrats to flip, and by getting others to caucus with them ten years ago. It’s just a good old fashioned knife-fight, and now the Democrats have the sharper knives.
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kentondem1 November 4th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Beshear is the only one with “quarters”.
Puritanical liberals= oxymoran
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