Can somebody from Kentucky explain what this is really about? It seems the governor is bucking both the legislature , the cabinet…and by extension the voters, Thanks.
As a Kentucky resident, all I can say is I hope this is the last d@#n Democrat governor we have for a very long time. He should have never gotten elected anyway if Matt had just kept his mouth shut a few times when he didn’t.
Kentucky has had only 2-3 Republican governors over the past 100 years. With voting for Trump over Obama/Biden at about 63-37 you’d think we would never have another Democrat governor.
However, the previous governor, Matt Bevin, a Republican, actually tried to fix Kentucky’s worst-in-the-nation pension system. But that ticked off the teachers and so the teachers didn’t vote for Bevin’s re-election and thus Beshear won (barely).
Note: the teachers didn’t vote for Beshear either, they just didn’t vote for Governor, thus the vote count for governor was much, much lower than during the previous governor’s election.
But he has very little power. The state legislative branches are overwhelmingly Republican and can easily override anything he vetoes. We’ll throw his ass out next November.
Before becoming governor, Bevin ran in the primary against McConnell but lost (I voted for Bevin). I predict that he’ll run again and win when McConnell is out. I hope it’s soon.
Correct.
We’ve got to get him out of there next year.