Doug, excellent essay!
Two questions:
1) Is it true that his current wife was his former secretary?
2) How did his current wife's husband die so that Patton could marry her?
1) Is it true that his current wife was his former secretary?
2) How did his current wife's husband die so that Patton could marry her?
There are all sorts of rumors about the death of Judi Patton's first husband. I suspect some investigative type who wants to do a book (or get a journalistic award perhaps) will dig into this.
The Dems are in a spot here. They know more revelations are coming (other women, for example) so how much damage are they willing to absorb before they throw Patton to the wolves?
I give this about a week before Patton does resign "for the good of the people of Kentucky, sob, sob!" He's got to go and the sooner the better.
Generally speaking, I do not wish to delve into the "personal" lives of politicians and so did not use some of the juiciest stuff about Patton. Rather, all I wanted was to use just enough of that type of information to shine a little light on his particular level of corruption, abuse of power and negligence.
News accounts will break shortly about his present mistress but, at the moment, there is no interesting abuse of power information associated with that story. So, there was no constructive reason for it to be related. As the story goes, though, this new babe is a bit miffed at Patton right now -- could be she didn't get as much pay-back as the last one.
I imagine his wife was a bit upset, too, when she learned of yet another infidelity in the background. I hope the Governor has a faithful dog, because he definitely has women problems!
Anyway, if we want to talk about really significant corruption in office, someone should bring up those 2,000 over-paid patronage positions the Governor appointed. The total bill to the Kentucky taxpayer is about one-hundred-million bucks a year and most of them never show up for work. They do, however, kick back a portion of their "wages" to political campaigns of Democratic candidates. But, again, that is not unique to just this governor. It is part of the criminal institution known as the Kentucky Democratic Party.
All this, and we didn't even get into their vote fraud schemes yet -- of which Patton was a major participant. . . . . .
So much material. So little time. :-)