Posted on 12/14/2019 5:23:40 AM PST by nuconvert
All across the Commonwealth of Kentucky, people are lashing out at their former governor for his controversial pardons and commutations.
Before leaving office, Matt Bevin issued more than 400 of them.
Some, including the case of a convicted child rapist in Kenton County, have created a firestorm of anger.
Discussions are underway among some lawmakers to determine if anything can be done about it.
(Excerpt) Read more at wlwt.com ...
Sour grapes. He didn’t have to upset our side.
hint: still a lotta trees in KY
Stupid voters in KY. Now they complain! Put some ice on it. Elections have consequences.
Bevin proved himself to be a total scumbag by doing this. Hopefully his career in electoral politics is finished.
Bevin upset too many conservative voters but theres a lesson here for them: Democrats dont represent you, your values and your interests.
You have idiots in KY who actually believed the Democrat candidate for Governor was a conservative.
Those old school Democrats are now extinct.
Given that this is reported by typical leftist media, there is most likely another side, e.g. most of the offenses were minor, and/or all them fixed legal screwups. Throw in a child molester for proper effect, even though wrongly tried and convicted.
God Bless Gov Bevin
Nothing GOP lawmakers in Frankfort can do about it. The pardoning power is absolute.
They could impeach Bevin over it but it belongs to the museum of lost causes: hes leaving office anyway.
And he can tell his self-righteous critics to shove it. You dont have Bevin to kick around anymore.
You have idiots in KY who actually believed the Democrat candidate for Governor was a conservative.
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Bevin is the conservative Republican Governor who was narrowly defeated in the election but who has not yet left office. See post 7.
Yes but they still voted for a Democrat. Democrats arent our friends. QED.
Actually some of them were quite serious, including murders. There's another thread around here where the story lists names and their offenses......
Government in the United States is all about checks and balances. Yet a governor (or president) can pardon someone without any check.
I never understood why that is allowed, as it gives the executive a king-like power. A legislature should be able to override a pardon, much like it can override a veto.
I live in Kentucky and short of pulling the case of each individual pardoned, I have no idea who or why they were pardoned. Three things I do know: Bevin was the best and most God fearing governor weve had in my lifetime, the election was stolen from him and every outraged story about this comes from the lying, scumbag, fake news media.
The middle-school student who first accused Schoettle in 2016 told Florence police he had repeatedly sexually assaulted her since she was 9 years old.
Read more: Convicted child rapist Micah Schoettle sentenced to 23 years in prison
Though a jury convicted Schoettle of rape, sodomy and sexual abuse in 2018, he walked free with the governors pardon Wednesday.
When the victim’s mother learned of Schoettle’s release from Green River Correctional Center, she struggled to find the words to explain what happened to her daughter.
“’Well, it figures. They always get away with it,’” she recalled her daughter saying.
In the pardon, Bevin wrote that the case relied on more testimony than physical evidence, and he did not believe the victims accusations were true, the Associated Press reports.
“[Bevin has] met my daughter, and now he’s saying that my daughter is a liar ... Shame on him. Shame on him,” she said.
On the scale of things, the outrage is fake, even though the felons getting off are real people.
Here in Texas, our big-city counties are now run by Soros Democrats who are in the ‘social-justice’ motif, and they simply WILL NOT jail felons, to the point of putting ankle bracelets on people accused of murder. We’re doing it by the thousands, maybe ten thousands, state-wide.
...but no bitching by the Left regarding these judges/prosecutors, since the ones destroying our society are the Leftists here.
You forgot to add that it would be staffed by Angels so as not to be as corrupt as the politicians they were investigating
I am not going to argue that point. All I’m saying is that Bevin was always about Bevin. I don’t think he was ever a very good candidate.
[I am not going to argue that point. All Im saying is that Bevin was always about Bevin. I dont think he was ever a very good candidate.]
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