Investigators search the offices of two top Fletcher aides

FRANKFORT - Attorney general's investigators, armed with search warrants, confiscated boxes of documents from the Capitol offices of two key aides to Gov. Ernie Fletcher yesterday as part of a widening investigation of Transportation Cabinet hiring practices.

The team of investigators targeted Richard Murgatroyd, Fletcher's deputy chief of staff who last year served as second in command of the Transportation Cabinet, and Dave Disponett, the governor's unpaid political adviser and treasurer of the state Republican Party.

The problem with this Governor is that he has made a deal with the last Governor (Patton)--leaving all of Patton's people in key positions.

The questions are:

1. Why keep Jerry Johnson (a Patton hack) on board to help decide board and commission appointments?

2. Why hire Grady Stumbo's daughter as the number 2 or number 3 person at the Department of Local Government. When she calls you, she states she is calling from the Governor's office?

3. Why does Fletcher ignore rank-and-file Republicans, choosing instead to reward 'friendly Democrats' loyal to Paul Patton, a the direction of power brokers in Eastern Kentucky loyal to Patton and a sell-out to the GOP?

Clearly, Fletcher lacks no political or moral compass whatsoever. He is a sell-out elitist who sacrifices the hard-work of the GOP faithful throughout Kentucky.

I'm disgusted by this, and await the chance to vote him out in 2007. What good was it to vote for a change when the Patton-Lawson corruption machine continues full steam ahead.

We wanted a new track, but all we did was change conductors.

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