Remember how Kentucky is now one of only two states in the country who haven’t heard of the concept of redemption? Lexington State Representative Jesse Crenshaw has tirelessly campaigned to right that wrong. And standing squarely in the path of redemption is Mr. Accountability and openness in government, Republican State Senator Damon Thayer. In his spare time, when he’s not following lockstep with David Williams’ attack on Kentucky’s thoroughbred industry, he has managed to steadfastly oppose allowing felons who have done their time and paid their debt to society to be allowed back into that society.
Thayer has refused to allow those felons to automatically have their right to vote restored for years, including earlier this year.
So when Thayer was pimping for Republicans in a fundraiser where he could show how much he could do for other like-minded obstructionists, it must have galled his soul to have to see a few dozen of these people who just don’t fit in protesting immediately outside his fundraiser. From the Georgetown News-Register:
A few dozen Kentuckians from Scott County and neighboring regions congregated in Canewood subdivision Friday during a Republican fundraiser held at Whilshire’s in protest of what they say is state Sen. Damon Thayer’s (R-Georgetown) blockade of House Bill 70.
HB 70 is a bill that would allow convicted felons the right to vote once released from prison without having to send a petition to the governor. Kentucky is the one of two states, along with Virginia, that denies convicted felons the right to vote.
“We pay taxes. We paid our time. Let us vote,” was the general outcry of signs and voices as cars passed through General John Payne and Canewood boulevards.
