i got (american) election 2003

Apathy is out; action is in....

Of course, the fact that the governor got busted screwing around on his wife with a woman who was running a cruddy nursing home isn't helping the Democratic canidate and current attorney general, who also happens to be a very distant relative of mine.

The biggest joke election in KY govt this year is the agriculture commissioner. The two canidates are a wife of a ex-politician loser and a an ex-UK basketall player whose last name happens to be "Farmer". Neither one really is qualified, so if you are a farmer, you are pretty much screwed.

At least there hasn't been a bunch of shootings like the last election. This state is wild when it comes to local government, especially in eastern Kentucky.

Other things I can remember... There is a Jackson County clerk up on murder charges for killing his secretary who was sueing him for sexual harressment. There is that weird election down in the corner of the state with a drive by shooting of one canidates house, another canidate had his minivan shot up and I think it was for some county assessor job. There was also that ex-Sheriff who had gone to jail for threatening someone and was running again for office and they found him dead in a burned out car. I think that may have been in Hazard.

That is pretty freakin' crazy. Where I grew up in Indiana, you just had your garden variety crooks, they didn't shoot each other over the jobs they just got drunk and ended up in the ditch, then tried to get the cops to cover it up.

As my dad laughs about him, Fletcher goes on and on how he was a fighter pilot, engineer, and doctor before running for office; if he changed jobs that often, how good at any of them could he be? Beyond that, how much tax dollars were spent training him at all these jobs that he gave up. I think he has something lurking underneath the veneer. He is also McConnell's lapdog, which is enough to not trust one thing about him. McConnell's a real creep.

In that case...to the barricades!

The appalling things to me about Ernie Fletcher & his campaign = A) he has intended on running for Guv for years, so why did he run for Congress? how wasteful is that? B) how horribly his legislative record is out of sync with the persona he puts forth in his political ads ("I'm about the KY working family" meanwhile more than 60,000 people have lost jobs in his Congressional district since he was elected, etc.).

But yeah I get the feeling that the KY Demo. ticket right now is tarnished for lots of folks by the whole Luv Guv debacle, which is kinda a shame.

Earlnash OTM about ag commissioner. At Baesler actually shows up to talk about the position she's running for. Farmer has been MIA the entire campaign.

Also OTM about KY political assassinations. Cuh-ra-zee.

Anyone want to take this opportunity to ask any of the candidates "What is the most unacceptable thing ever to come out of your ass?"

And more importantly, are there any who DON'T campaign by driving around neighborhoods, yelling through a loudspeaker?

I suppose that is true. The Democrats are still complete idiots for running her, that bozo Luallen that was Pattons secretary and their attorney general canidate has a really questionable background. By running these bozos and not trying to find some fresh faces, they play right into the GOP's sloganeering. Of course, considering some of the BS that Patton and the cronies have gotten caught with, they probably deserve to lose. (Mind you, I am a registered Democrat and this crap makes me sick. I'm not going to vote straight ticket, that is for sure.)

In the paper a few days back they posted the canidates of both parties answers to a questionare put together by a state get out the vote group. What was funny is how many of the GOP canidates answered the questions AGREE or DISAGREE with the question, without making any statement at all. It is like they don't want to say ANYTHING beyond slogans and yes or no.

Somehow, I'd bet 4 out of 5 would say either Enron or the NRA.

MS gubernatorial race is a dead heat.

in philly, john street is beating sam katz by almost 25 points, w/ 40% of polls reporting.

nj results coming in ... one of the most powerful GOP state senators (gormley) is losing!

The funny thing is that it might be bugged, the FBI and Justice Department were investigating Patton a few months back.

Good luck to the GOP running this state (and the nation for all its worth), I think they will find not having a scapegoat party to blame everything upon much more difficult.

Oh well, the last time the US trusted the Republicans to this extent with power ended in the great depression.