Posted on 05/11/2006 1:43:19 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
Edited on 05/11/2006 1:58:13 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
California has Boxer, Feinswine and San Franfreeko, so I'd call that a draw........
Boxer, Feinswine and San Franfreeko
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Can't argue with you there...
LOL! We're here together fighting the good fight... me at least until I retire.....
I've only heard good things about the state (from friends/family). Much happiness to you there.
Looking forward to it. Especially here in the Bourbon Capitol.
Toto, we're not in Florida anymore......thank God.
Here was the first Republican govenor with a Republican House and Senate in over 150 years in KY.
You knew the rats were all out to get him. Stumbo is a rat who did nothing but go after the Gov. Letting Drug smugglers off so he could concentrat on fletcher!
Well, you can tell it's A Republican investigated by Democrats. Republicans don't know what the rule of law is anymore and Democrats think it means arresting non-democrats in order to destroy them politically. Of course, if the governor had hired illegals, they'e have roasted him Dean Martin style and given him the key to Washington..
Discrimination achieved!
ROFLMAO!!
Close to right. However, the House is still Democrat. This is the first time in history, however, that the Governor and the Senate have both been Republican.
[Insert Democrat here] indicted for conspiracy to commit "political discrimination."
First Republican Governer in 2 generations.
Attny General is Democrat.
Launched an investigation at a press conference after 1 complaint.
Previous governor was a Clinton klone that hired by b/j's.
Except Kentucky went for Clinton in 1992 and again in 1996.
Thank you. I guess it is kind of swingy then.
If our elected officials, mainly demorats, would spend more time doing the job they were elected to do instead of spending enormous amounts of time and money to destroy the opposition; we actually might have some good.
Oops, I fogot, this is what they were elected to do. Ruin America. Sorry for my lapse.
Actually Grady is from Hindman, in Knott Co...right next to Floyd Co where Greg is from. The last action the previous Governor, Paul Patton did was to make hundreds of jobs that He created as political favors "Merit" jobs. Which meant it was next to impossible to fire them. The employee that is at the root of the issue was actually going through a 6 month probationary period when He was let go. What the indictment says is that Fletchers staff researched past political support of some applicants, some were hired, some weren't. Some cried discrimination.(As a young Republican just out of school in the 80's, I wonder whatever happened to my application to state jobs when those Rats were in power.) Dumbo was able to get a judge to rule that all email on the Governor's staff's server was "public record", Including the Governor's himself.
Now, I work in the media, and I can tell you that Dumbo has a "Big Surprise" awaiting him in the next couple of weeks. Like old barney said, "Fight Fire with Fire".
>> Once upon a time, before the Federal courts went beserk, state and local governments had the power to award patronage and fire members of the opposing party after an election. <<
That was not the product of courts going berserk. That was the product of a succession of Republican presidents in the late 1800s sacrificing their chances of re-election, and any further political agenda so as to reverse the slide of political office in America being the sort of cronyist culture that we now more often associate with Marxist, African regimes.
It worked, too, until the Democrats passed "campaign-reform" laws which resulted in elected politicians needing to rely entirely on their political parties for re-election.
What I'm more troubled by is the fact such reform laws, including what is quoted in this thread from the Kentucky code, don't amount to criminalization. (Actually, most of the laws from the late 19th century created governmental structures to isolate "career civil servants" from the hiring and firing authority of elected officials, so the Kentucky laws do look very different.) As such, supposing that Gov. Fletcher did violate the law, the remedy would not be to have Fletcher indicted, but rather to simply nullify his actions. Such "toothlessness" on the part of a civil service law would be done precisely because "political discrimination" is inherently subjective, and therefore not a sound basis for prosecution.
Further, since Kentucky government had long been Democrat-dominated, even the wilfull selection of predominantly Republican civil servants would seem likely to be balancing the state government.
Finally, someting tells me that the charge of "political discrimination" will never be brought to the areas where it is most invidious: state university campuses, public litigants, para-governmental regulatory bodies, courts, etc.
A Republican in the media??? Wow! : ) I'm willing to bet that if you work for a newspaper, it's a local one. Unfortunately, the Courier-Journal and Herald-Leader ARE allowed to politically discriminate.
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