Posted on 01/08/2003 9:19:31 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Just received word via some of our Kentucky FReepers that Freeper Don Bell will be running on the ticket with Senator Virgil Moore for Kentucky Governor next year.
"Virgil Moore is a very popular State Senator with many years of legislative experience. Don Bell compliments that ticket perfectly because he is an experienced bean counter, has 20 years experience as a Secret Service Agent, and so can do a lot to cure the ills in the bloated budget as well as the many problems within the Kentucky State Police Department."
"At the moment, I see no team running that has more to offer the people of Kentucky."
"Oh . . . . do I think Virgil Moore can win? Yup! There's a good chance there. He has been doing the background work. Adding Don Bell to the ticket will help. So, yeah, this is more than just supposing. . . . . ."
News should hit the wires tomorrow.
He just called me from the Ky Senate floor on a "borrowed Democrat cell phone".
He wants you to be there this evening while Governor Patton addresses the joint legislature at opening.
If it were a "business," the State of Kentucky is so poorly operated it would be bankrupt. But, Kentucky already has some of the highest taxes in the nation -- they tax every little thing that is manufactured, grown, sold, moves, or sits still for a moment -- so more taxes are not an option.
The Kentucky Democrats set up a system with $100-million in appointed patronage jobs and many of those people never even show up for work. They do, however, kick back a significant part of their salary to the Democratic Party coffers and campaigns. An honest team, like Moore and Bell, would see a budget balancing mechanism there. Cutting out the waste, fraud and abuse in the Medicare-Medicaid and welfare budget could save almost another $100-million annually.
The Kentucky State Police is sorely in need some constructive guidance, which Don Bell can expertly offer. The State is overrun with minor bureaucrats, each wielding arbitrary power in their little fiefdoms, with no coordination or control. And, there are actually three different systems of State prosecutors, one which the government was given permission to eliminate (in the State Constitution) years ago but still exists at a cost to the public of many millions of bucks every year.
Ah yes, there is much work to be done in Kentucky government, if it is ever to be nudged into the twenty-first century. Like the State Constitution, the system of Kentucky State government is a holdover from the horse and buggy era and doesn't work very well anymore.
Kentucky government needs some significant changes . . . soon. A Moore-Bell Governorship would go far in making many of the necessary changes. And, let's face it, even though I also like a couple of the other candidates, I have yet to hear ANY of them even suggesting something at the State level might need changing.
Thank you.
We really need all the help that we can get.
A contribution of any size will be much appreciated.
Fortunately, or unfortunately, there is going to be a HUGE primary. So far, the ballot looks like this:
Virgil Moore/Don Bell
Ernie Fletcher/Hunter Bates
Steve Nunn/Bob Heleringer
Rebecca Jackson/Robbie Rudulph
Two other possible gubernatorial candidates are John Coburn and Bert Minton.
GO VIRGIL GO!
My time will be limited as I am going back to school, but it does give you a contact at NKU :)
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