Despicable #KY #Democrat Amy McGrath - Trump being elected felt like 9/11

This would be despicable from anyone, but we expected better from veteran and former Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps, Amy McGrath. Having your favorite political candidate, Hillary Clinton, lose an election may have been disappointing, but it shouldn't be in the same league as 3000 souls being lost in a terrorist attack on our homeland. Amy appears to have been struck with Trump Derangement Syndrome. I would recommend Amy McGrath withdraw from Kentucky's 6th congressional district race, but staying in will make it easier for GOP Rep. Andy Barr to fly across the finish line in first.

Lexington, KY Families Epic Response To Having Trump Yard Sign Stolen

The homeowners made their own sign:

Yo, Yard Sign Thief(s)
It Appears You Are Following In The Footsteps
Of "Crooked Lying Hillary"!
Did Clinton's Cronies
Put You Up To This? Warning:
Do Not Touch As An Electrical Current
May Be Present.

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Obama's War On Coal Update: There Are No Union Mines Left In KY Anymore...

How is that "votin' Democrat" working out for you UMW workers? 

Kentucky coal miners bled and died to unionize.
Their workplaces became war zones, and gun battles once punctuated union protests. In past decades, organizers have been beaten, stabbed and shot while seeking better pay and safer conditions deep underground.
But more recently the United Mine Workers in Kentucky have been in retreat, dwindling like the black seams of coal in the Appalachian mountains.
And now the last union mine in Kentucky has been shut down.[...]
The union era's death knell sounded in Kentucky on New Year's Eve, when Patriot Coal announced the closing of its Highland Mine. The underground mine in western Kentucky employed about 400 hourly workers represented by the United Mine Workers of America.

Video: Kentucky House Speaker Greg Stumbo's Bizarre Election Night Sermon

Strange. Very strange.

“And the other thing I know is that if in fact the Bible is a book of parables, like I believe it is, think about this: Mary did not ride an elephant into Bethlehem that night,” he said to a restrained crowd.[…]

Racists Republicans Update: KY GOP elects first black female to statewide office...

Meet Jenean Hampton of Bowling Green. She is Kentucky's newest Lt. Governor. Republicans make history again. 

Matt Bevin and Tea Party win big in Kentucky

Matt Beven was down by 5% in the polling, but won by over 8%. The polls seriously under reported conservative and Republican support. If this is true nationally, Democrats should be terrified for 2016.

Demo KY gubernatorial candidate Jack Conway panders for women's vote: "I’ve even got a female dog"

You can't make stuff this stupid up. There is video from the debate.



CONWAY: “Gosh let me count the ways that we’ve made the state a better place for women. Let me say first of all that issue is one for the general assembly. Okay that really didn’t have anything to do with the office of the Attorney General. Now the Kentucky State Police certainly looked into it. They did an investigation with a former LRC director. There was a settlement. But I can tell you this. When I became Attorney General I think half of my directors were women. My first chief-deputy was a woman. I’m married to a strong professional woman in Elizabeth Davenport Conway. I’ve got two little girls, I’ve even got a female dog, they’ve got me surrounded.”

Kim Davis incarceration may impact KY Governor's race...

KY is a very religious state and gay marriage doesn't have popular support. GOP candidate Matt Bevin has been pushing a plan to get Davis out of jail. Democrat Jack Conway seems indifferent.

The court battle has spilled into the political realm, with Republican gubernatorial nominee Matt Bevin and GOP attorney general nominee Whitney Westerfield describing the situation as a struggle for religious liberty. Many of those protesting the legal action against Davis on the Ashland courthouse steps on Thursday often railed against the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage and espoused negative views of homosexuality in general.
Davis’s incarceration has also attained national attention, with Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who is currently polling ninth among the GOP field in an average calculated by Real Clear Politics, scheduled to attend a rally for Davis outside the Carter County Detention Center in Grayson.
But Democratic Attorney General Jack Conway said his opponent is focusing on Davis’s incarceration on the campaign trail “because he’s not winning on the issues.” He and other Democrats on the ballot Nov. 3 told reporters Monday they’re unconcerned with the political ramifications of a federal judge jailing someone for not following his order.
“I have sympathy for Kim Davis, but she’s in jail because she defied a federal judge’s court order,” Conway said after a pro-union rally at the Louisville Zoo picnic, adding his view that marriage licenses issued by deputy clerks are valid despite Davis’s attorneys arguing otherwise. “You can’t do that.”

Kentucky's largest Obamacare provider requests a 25% premium hike

 Kentucky is often cited as an Obamacare success. I guess it is for those getting their premiums paid by us taxpayers. We will pay the rate hike. What ever happened to "bending the cost curve down?"

The Kentucky Health Cooperative, the largest insurer on Kynect, Kentucky’s Obamacare health insurance exchange, proposed a 25.1 percent health insurance premium rate increase for 2016.

Despite the daunting numbers, Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear (D) is unconcerned about the double-digit rate in his administration’s signature policy.

“System-wide averages don’t give a good picture of what an individual’s out-of-pocket costs may be,” Beshear said.

Beshear bypassed the legislature and created Kynect, the nation’s first state-run health-insurance exchange, through an executive order.

“The rates for private health plans on Kynect have been filed but have not yet been approved or certified, so we don’t yet know what the final numbers will be,” Beshear said. “Changes still may occur, and rates should be finalized sometime in mid-July, but we do expect that some plan rates will go down, some will go up, and some will stay close to the same as last year.”

The Obama NCAA curse strikes again: Wisconsin Beats Kentucky 71-64 in Final Four game...

Barack Obama picked Kentucky to win it all in his NCAA bracket.

INDIANAPOLIS — Sam Dekker hit a three over Willie Cauley-Stein with two minutes left to break a 60-all tie as the Wisconsin Badgers played the role of the ultimate spoiler, beating No. 1 and then-undefeated Kentucky, 71-64.

Image of the Day: Mid-April Snow in Kentucky

Snow in Central Kentucky 04/15/14. Al Gore hardest hit. Screen capture 04/15/14 6:00 AM

Did Kentucky just start down the road to ending their Obamacare exchange?

Kentucky has often been touted by Democrats as an Obamacare success story. The truth is most of Kentucky's success has been signing up people for Medicaid. However, the KYConnect exchange website did seem to work. It may be going away now.    

Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear had ten days to veto the General Assembly’s agreement to defund ObamaCare in Kentucky and start a huge fight for today and tomorrow, but he didn’t do it. [...]

At the top of page Page 124 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act it states “No federal funds for continued operations … In establishing an Exchange under this section, the state shall ensure that such Exchange is self-sustaining beginning on January 1, 2015,[...]

The 2014 Kentucky General Assembly refused to ensure that our Exchange will be self-sustaining on January 1, 2015, refused to authorize assessments or user fees and refused to allow spending of any funding generated otherwise. In fact, the budget just passed almost unanimously by both chambers states “The Governor is expressly prohibited from expending any General Fund resources on any expenditure directly or indirectly associated with the Health Benefit Exchange.”

How did Kentucky get to those Obamacare numbers Reid taunted McConnell with?

We have already determined 80% of Kentucky's sign-ups were for free Medicaid. Democrats in Kentucky helped that number by signing up inmates as they were releasing them.

Via USA Today.

After three months in jail on a theft charge, Vincent Garcia had prepared last week to collect his wallet and keys and turn in his orange scrubs upon release.

But the 26-year-old will leave jail with something else — free health insurance.

Louisville Metro Department of Corrections last week began holding daily sign-ups for exiting inmates, and Garcia was among those qualifying for the newly expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.

Harry Reid Trolls McConnell over KY Obamacare sign-up numbers, but doesn't tell the whole story

Harry Reid took to the Senate floor Thursday and used Kentucky's Affordable Care Act numbers as a stick to hit Mitch McConnell.  

“My counterpart, the senior senator from Kentucky, will address the Senate probably after I finish. In his home state of Kentucky, 360,000 people have signed up for coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Three hundred and sixty thousand. Over a quarter million Kentuckians who did not have insurance now have health care under the Affordable Care Act. Or, in other words, Obamacare has reduced the uninsured population in Kentucky by 40 percent. I wonder when my friend from Kentucky will explain to the 270,000 Kentuckians how he plans to repeal the law without stripping their new health benefits.”

That sounds like a great success, but Dingy Harry left out one key statistic. 

With sign-ups reaching 1,000 people an hour, Kentucky surpassed 360,000 enrollees by Monday’s midnight deadline for the Affordable Care Act’s first open-enrollment period.[...]

The goal of the ACA was to help cover 48 million Americans, including 640,000 in Kentucky, who lack health insurance.

Although the state set no official first-year goal, its 360,000-plus sign-ups — 75 percent of whom were previously uninsured — represents a sizable chunk.[...]

Final figures are expected from the state Tuesday.

So far, about 80 percent of enrollees qualified for expanded Medicaid, leading some critics to question the added costs to federal budgets. The rest bought private plans on the exchange, where people are eligible for subsidies, based on their income.

80% signed up fro free Medicaid; proving once again free stuff is popular. That means only 72,000 actually signed up to pay. Most of them likely got a large subsidy. The 80% Medicaid number also explains why 75% of KY enrollees were previously uninsured. Most of these people were probably already "getting a check" from the government as they say in Eastern Kentucky.

Amusing: New Matt Bevin ad clads Mitch McConnell in Duke uniform

Coffee spitting funny...

Stupid: Kentucky Speaker Stumbo Compares Defeating Sen. McConnell To Liberating Europe From Nazi's

GREG STUMBO, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE (D-KENTUCKY): You know, we’ve got a lot of people who came here tonight to celebrate, and I have to speak to the crowd that when we kicked off this campaign back in July in Lexington. And it reminded me of the feeling that our troops must have had when they liberated the European nations following World War II. Can you imagine what it felt like to know that you were liberating a country? Well, you’re about to liberate your state, you’re about to liberate your state from the worst reign of misabuse that we’ve seen in the last 30 years. You’re about to give us hope.

Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes’s campaign accused of trying to bribe opponent to drop out...

Well, Alison Lundergan Grimes is a democrat, but her campaign denies this is true.Grimes will face either Sen. Mitch McConnell or Conservative Matt Bevin.

Via The Hill:

A third-party candidate in the Kentucky Senate race has accused Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes’s campaign of trying to buy him out of the race.

Ed Marksberry claims in a 15-page missive that affiliates of her campaign offered him and his campaign manager benefits in exchange for his full exit from the race. Marksberry dropped out of the Democratic primary last year to run as an independent after alleging the state party inappropriately favored Lundergan Grimes.

“We met and I was told that Alison’s campaign would like to ask me to consider stepping out of the race,” Marksberry wrote in the document, published on local political blog Page One Kentucky.

Interesting: KY GOP Ag Commissioner fighting Demo Attorney General over hemp production. Very Interesting: GOP Ag Commissioner supports growing hemp...

Democrats and Republicans switch sides in KY hemp wars...

The argument over whether Kentucky farmers can begin growing hemp — as soon as next year — got hotter on Wednesday with Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway issuing a written opinion that the crop is still illegal, and farmers who grow it could be prosecuted.
Anyone who intentionally grows the crop “will expose themselves to potential criminal liability and the possible seizure of property,” Conway’s opinion said.
That prompted a challenge from state Agriculture Commissioner James Comer’s office, suggesting that neither the federal or state government would charge growers.
“The law is that industrial hemp is legal in Kentucky. If the feds aren’t going to prosecute industrial hemp, surely the attorney general of Kentucky isn’t going to move forward with prosecuting hemp farmers,” said Holly VonLuehrte, Comer’s general counsel and spokeswoman.
Hemp leaves appear identical to marijuana, but hemp is grown for the fiber in its stalks and has only a tiny amount of THC, the intoxicating chemical in pot.
Comer, an advocate for hemp, and the Kentucky Hemp Commission, which Comer revived last year to suggest hemp policy, contend the U.S. Justice Department’s recent stance easing enforcement of marijuana laws along with the state’s new hemp law, means the plant can be grown legally in the state.

Full disclosure: My father actually grew hemp legally in Kentucky when he was a young man. 

Outrage: Kentucky Art Teacher Places American Flag On The Floor; Encourages Students To Step On It...

Things have really changed. When I went to school, we were taught to honor the American flag.

Via Fox News:

Students at a Kentucky high school were encouraged to step on an American flag that had been placed on the floor as part of an art display, outraging parents and students.
The display at McCracken County High School, was a re-creation of “Dread” Scott Tyler’s 1989 installation titled “The Proper Way to Display an American Flag.”

Photo courtesy of Kathleen Fox, The Paducah Sun

A photograph shows a music stand on top of the flag that had been placed in a hallway, in a story first reported by Kathleen Fox, a reporter with The Paducah Sun.
As part of the art exhibit, students were encouraged to stand on the flag and write their reflections on how they felt standing on the flag.
Local residents filled social networking sites with their outrage over the flag desecration with many calling for the art teacher to be fired.

Another Democrat accused of sexual harassment...

Democrats continue their war on women...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Two women who work at the State Capitol in Frankfort have filed a sexual harassment complaint against a veteran legislator.
If the charges are true, it could cause the lawmaker to lose his seat.
The accusations are contained in two documents filed with the Legislative Ethics Commission.
Rep. John Arnold, a Democrat from Sturgis, in Western Kentucky, is accused of misconduct dating back to 2010.
The complaints filed by Cassaundra Cooper and Yolanda Costner, detail alleged sexual assault, harassment, stalking and verbal abuse.
The women work for the Legislative Research Commission, the LRC, which provides support to the General Assembly. Read more here...