(06-24-2022 07:09 PM)chrisd11 Wrote: (06-24-2022 07:04 PM)CardinalJim Wrote: There are only two abortion clinics in Kentucky: one in Louisville and one in Lexington. Thankfully they have both been closed in response to today’s decision.
Kentucky is extremely conservative. Old Democrats in Kentucky have joined the Republican Party as their party moved further to the Left to appeal the crazies on both coasts the last few years.
Abortion will never be legal in Kentucky again.
There are 120 counties in Kentucky are 118 are majority conservative. Urban Democrats in Louisville and Lexington always depended on Democrats in rural areas of the state holding their nose and voting for whatever lunacy their urban brethren hatched.
Turns out Defunding the Police, rewriting American History (leader of CRT leadership committee teaches in Louisville) and using public schools to indoctrinate students instead of educating them does not play well in rural areas.
Serious question: why have 9 of the last 11 Kentucky governors been Democrats (including the current one)?
That’s a good question.
Republicans took over the Kentucky House and the Kentucky Senate in 2016 for the first time since 1921. It was the first time in well over a hundred years since Republicans controlled the governorship as well.
Republican Matt Bevin won election in 2015. He proceeded to be the most unpopular governor Kentucky in history.
For example in Kentucky the Governor appoints university trustees. Most are political cronies with no experience leading a university. In Louisville’s case he replaced our BOT with some UK grads. Not a popular decision in Louisville.
Bevin was also targeted by the KEA for not giving the teachers raises or paying back money to their retirement fund that a former Democratic Governor pilfered. When he did push legislation for teachers he symbolically attached it to a State Sanitation Bill.
After making dozens of other decisions just as bad, Bevin lost in 2019.
His opponent Steve Beshear won by 0.37 percentage points, receiving 49.20% of the vote to Bevin's 48.83%. Beshear defeated Bevin by just over 5,000 votes, making this the closest gubernatorial election in Kentucky since 1899 by total votes, and the closest ever by percentage.
Bevin was the only Republican that lost in state wide elections in 2019.
Many like myself, who couldn’t vote for a Democrat from Lexington, just left that race blank.
Daniel Cameron, presently our first African American attorney general in Kentucky, will be Beshear’s opponent in 2023. He is a rising star in the Republican Party. Look for him to get a lot of face time at the 2024 Republican Convention.
Cameron is a former UofL football player who walked on and won a scholarship. He then graduated from Brandeis Law school. He’s a Louisville guy through and through.
Republicans across Kentucky love him.