He’s silver-spoon raised, and doesn’t know how to follow the law. That’s hardly a nitpick.

You posting a link isn’t using it for political campaign purposes. Quarles clearly did. That’s the difference.

I still support Price, Crit Luallen or Kathy Stein, even Robin Webb or Jerry Rhoades would be better than either of these to poseurs or knights of darkness that threaten to cement the republican’t hold on the Senate.

Further, the interview he uses to promote his political personal goals is made with public money, and once he is a candidate that is wrong. It is further wrong because the president of the University of Kentucky appears to be endorsing his candidacy and promoting him. Your contention is that just because it might have been acceptable at one point, a subsequent wrongful effect should be allowed. Do you really believe that? Because I have never heard that as a justification for a wrongful act before.

Physician, heal thyself.

That said, I looked up his facebook page, and there is nothing whatsover to support your accusations against Quarles with regard to the videos. He did not “post copyrighted material produced with public funds”, he posted a link to an interview featuring him in it housed on a separate website. There is nothing indicating he has been endorsed by anyone as you have falsely stated. He did not copy and upload it to his website as you seem to be trying to portray it as, and it is plain to see it to anyone looking at

10:52, to reply to your issue, there was a time in state government when expressing particular political beliefs would lead directly to the firing of a merit employee. During the period from 2003 to 2007, anyone who disagreed with the Republican positions was subject to being fired for those opinions.

During that time, I had to change jobs and also voice my opinions under a nom de plume in order to avoid being fired. That was a surprisingly un-American view of expression of beliefs, and a frightening time for many Kentuckians.

Your question is strikingly familiar to those the Fletcher administration personnel poised during that time. Did you work for that administration? Because that sort of illegal attacking of merit employees based on their political beliefs and affiliation led to a massive criminal case involving a huge number of people within the Fletcher administration, including Ernie Fletcher himself who only avoided criminal responsibility by pardoning everyone else and then accepting a plea bargain that acknowledged his wrongdoing.

Of course, Kentuckians also rejected that sort of political discrimination, and voted strongly against it in 2007. Whether our governor is a Republican or a Democrat, a man or a woman, I hope they never forget that lesson.

also, bob, good piece on the super bowl ad. i hadn’t heard about the mancrunch thing, and i think the whole thing is a shame. i love that site. <—showing my colors, and yes, they are carefully coordinated.