Posted on 09/17/2002 8:20:35 PM PDT by CreekerFreeper
From the 84 WHAS newsroom...
(Louisville, KY) -- Governor Patton is facing some explosive allegations...he's finding himself at the center of a sex scandal. WHAS 11 TV broke the story Tuesday night, reporting that Tina Conner, a businesswoman and nursing home operator out of Western Kentucky (Clinton), says she had a 2-year affair with the Governor. The allegations go even further though. Conner says that when she tried to break off that relationship, the governor tried to shut down her nursing home. The state found numerous violations at Birchtree Healthcare during an inspection last year. Birchtree has since filed for bankruptcy. Connor goes even further to say she fears for her safety. She tells WHAS 11's Mark Hebert that she believes Governor Patton would, indeed, order a hit on her. Governor Patton says he is "shocked and horrified" by the allegations. He says he died not have sexual relations with Conner. He says the accusations are "acts of desperation" from a nursing home operator whose facility is facing bankruptcy. Conner says Governor Patton first approached her following a political fundraiser for Tom Barlow in 1997. She says a 2-year affair followed. She says she and the governor met several times for encounters at a Louisville hotel on Hurstbourne Lane...always at 7am and sometimes staying as long as five hours. She says the State Police officers working security for the governor would wait outside the hotel. Conner is also a member of the Kentucky State Lottery Board. She was appointed to the board in 2000. Conner says Patton was trying to get her to Louisville more in hopes of more sexual encounters.
Its going. We'll leave it at that. It's a brand-new goverment coming down in January here, all to be determined in November's elections for city council. I have mixed emotions about it all. I am not ashamed to admit that I, unlike most Louisville Republicans I know, voted against merger, mainly out of concern for bigger government with more taxing power. But the fact is, it passed, and now I hope for the best. In a strict numbers-sense way, we definitely will have more "R's" and less "D's" than under the old government. We will just have to wait and see where the November winners lie on the ideology scale.
I can't quite figure it out - the Commonwealth has had at least one Republican senator for as long as I can remember, presently has two, and the Congressional delegation is predominately Republican. Why the good citizenry insists on electing a Demoncrat to the Governor's Mansion is beyond me.
My theory is that Kentuckians seem to have a x-number-of-degrees-of-separation thing going with candidates for the State offices; it seems they always know a brother's cousin's uncle, etc, etc. who is a Democratic incumbent in Frankfort, or a Democrat otherwise on the ballot. But yet, when they get to the federal races, they suddenly mature and think to themselves, "oh yeah, THESE races matter." I only wish I knew how to explain to them how important the state races are, especially in matters relating to the local and state economies. I will conceed that most representation in the State Gov't. is very conservative socially, even a significant percentage of the Democrats, once you get out of Derby City.
Sounds kinda exciting to me-- the Dairy State (Wisconsin) is a little dull in comparison.
Yeah, I guess its all relatively exciting, depending upon to what you are accustomed. I know very little about politics in your state; I have to plead ignorance. Do the bureacrats in Wisconsin's state government vote the way you would yourself? Have you been voting in Wisconsin very long? From what I do know about the legislative bodies in other states, Kentucky's is very conservative; Hope I am not becoming obnoxiously redundant here, but when you consider that the Dem's have controlled the State House without reprieve since Reconstruction, have held the State Senate approx. 150 of the last 160 years, and have held the Governor's Mansion for approx. 50 of the last 55 years, we are probably the most conservative. The party label doesn't mean too much here. There are plenty of people in this state to the right of Pat Buchanan who are registered Democrats but have never voted that way in a federal race.
P.S. I love your profile page. I cannot see much there with which I disagree.
If they did they wouldn't be bureaucrats- they'd find a real job somewhere. Really, I'd vote more conservatively than most of them would most of the time.
Have you been voting in Wisconsin very long?
I've lived in this state 9 years.
P.S. I love your profile page. I cannot see much there with which I disagree.
Thanks.
Remember, power is an aphrodisiac for women. Witness the courtship and court battle of decrepit-looking octogenerian Kirk Kerkorian and Lisa Bonder, the Anna Kournikova of the eighties (all looks, no game).
Plus, both of our statewide papers, the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Lexington Herald-Leader, haven't endorsed a Republican since McKinley. The Herald-Leader employs a creature named Joel Pett as its editorial page cartoonist. He made fun of Reagan's alzheimers -- and of course has won a pulitzer. There's money just waiting to be made by any publisher who will start up a conservative statewider paper.
TOTALLY IN AGREEMENT!
Before the takeoff of the Internet,I can recall a few publications here or there that at least tried to make it in print in this state. Usually, they are journals or bulletins put out by political interest groups, which is not a bad thing. Such was the case when I helped start both the Cardinal Review (U of L College Republicans) and the YR Review (Jefferson County Young Republicans). We will take conservative media any way we can get it. A couple that come to mind in Kentucky in the last decade were The Liberty Standard and Kentucky Christian News . As I recall, neither of them could sustain the costs of putting out statewide papers. One paper that I find interesting at this time is the Peasant's Press , which is distributed by Take Back Kentucky .
Ans.: Clinton was the K-Y President.
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