Posted on 12/10/2015 5:41:53 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
LOUISVILLE — House Speaker Greg Stumbo was speaking with members of the media in Louisville Thursday as official word came down that House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Tilley had accepted a role as the next Justice and Public Safety Cabinet secretary under Republican Gov. Matt Bevin.
Tilley’s move to Bevin’s administration further wounds an already bleeding Democratic majority caucus in the House of Representatives. Democrats now have their slimmest majority since 1921 with a 52-47 lead in the chamber and three special elections to run in 2016.
Talking with reporters, Stumbo, D-Prestonsburg, called the moves by Tilley and former Democratic Rep. Denny Butler who switched party affiliation to the GOP, as a “slap in the face†to constituents and the system.
“I think it’s a slap in the face of representative Democracy and a slap in the face to those who elected you, and I’m not going to judge because my Bible tells me not to judge lest I would be judged, but I do think it’s a slap in the face to the hard working men and women who voted for you,†Stumbo said. “I think you owe to them to serve out your term in the party you were elected to serve from.â€
Six Democratic members have been targeted by the Republican Party in the House, Stumbo said, though he refused to elaborate on who has been approached.
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“There will be takers,†Stumbo said. “We’ve seen that. That’s true all throughout our society — there are those who don’t have the character. We see them everyday. I see them in the court of justice — they call them criminals.â€
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This is quite amusing.
” I’m not going to judge because my Bible tells me not to judge lest I would be judged, “
When democrats quote (In this case misquote) the Bible you know they are desperate.
Eat it, Stumpy, you scum-sucking pig.
The Kentucky State political machine needs a long needed shakeup. I’ve never seen so much corruption.
‘Rats leaving the sinking Democrap ship......
Stumbo is a slap-in-the-face to all Kentuckians. His pathetic speech on election night where he doubled-down on his support for 0bama, even after Kentucky voters clearly rejected 0bama and his policies, was beyond embarrassing.
The person who was appointed to fill out his term was...Greg Stumbo.
I saw Bevin appointed a rat Rep to his state cabinet, I figured it was to open up his seat. Delicious.
He only has to pick off a few to get it to flip. That district the Dem hailed from was held by a Republican not so long ago. The GOP wasn’t contesting it recently, which means the Dem was probably right-leaning.
Sacking Stumpy as Speaker is paramount. As soon as the dam cracks, KY’s legislature (House of Reps, at least) will resemble that of here in TN (where there are almost no rural Dem members left).
The rats sounds ok, for a rat, that he doesn’t care about giving up the seat speaker well for him
Still, not contesting a recently held seat=ugh.
I hope there are no traitors in the wings like what happened with whathisname in TN who made himself puppet Speaker for the democrats.
Well, you never know. The moment the GOP gets control of the House, first order of business should be undoing the masterful Democrat gerrymander in time for the 2016 elections. That’ll guarantee a substantial increase in seats.
They can start by chopping up Stumpy’s seat to bits, though I doubt he’d want to stick around being a part of the powerless House minority. TN’s Democrat cancer, Speaker Boss Hogg Naifeh, headed for the hills after GOP control was solidified.
How is it that Kentucky, a very conservative state, has one chamber of state congress that is controlled by democrats?
Yeah, I thought the same thing. Pretty smart move for Bevin, who previously hadn’t shown much political deftness.
But I’m still pissed that he’s returning voting rights to a whole bunch of (Democrat) felons.
No state legislature is called a “Congress”, FYA.
Anyway, Kentucky is ancestrally democrat, since the civil war. I don’t think Republicans have ever had the State House majority. It hadn’t been solidly Republican in federal elections until fairly recently, democrat power on the state level has been very persistent, Republican Governors have been rare. Dems have the lines gerrymandered and there is a lot of corruption, and state Republicans have been weak in fielding candidates. The bells are tolling though, dems will likely lose it in 2016 (only state where the Governor and executive officers are elected in separate years than the leg, weird) if not before through party switches and special election gains.
The last GOP House majority in KY was, I believe, in 1920. There was enough of a majority in the legislature on two other occasions to elect a U.S. Senator, in 1897 and in 1909.
Very large majority that has been chipped away at, as well as gerrymandering - but the gerrymandering has become less and less effective.
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