Kentucky gov: 'I guarantee' children sexually assaulted, poisoned because of teacher protests

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY JOSH DELK - 04/14/18 09:17 AM EDT

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Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) suggested Friday that children were physically harmed because they were at home during the statewide teacher strikes, when teachers gathered at the capitol to protest school funding.

“I guarantee you somewhere in Kentucky today a child was sexually assaulted that was left at home because there was nobody there to watch them," said Bevin, who sought to shut down bills aimed at expanding the state education budget.

Bevin reportedly complained of the teachers sprawled across the capitol grounds, telling reporters he saw them smoking and "leaving trash around."

Because of the protests, "hundreds of thousands of children" were likely left at home without childcare, he said.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/383152-kentucky-gov-i-guarantee-children-physically-harmed-because-they

[Ohiogal]

1. Holy smokes

What kind of twisted cretin comes up with a remark like that? Unbelievable.

[Perseus]

11. A republican cretin

you can count on them to say stuff like that, then they act horrified when a democrat tells the truth about trump.

These are very crazy people who will do anything to capture a base of crazy people who vote for them. When there is no accountability these things happen, and that is why, since GW, we see more of it on a daily basis.

[Major Nikon]

2. Does this mean GOPhers are going to start providing free day care to single working parents?

[Ohiogal]

28. Heck, no!

Children are only important to the GOP before they're born.

[Major Nikon]

38. Not even then

There are areas of the US where infant mortality rivals the 3rd world. You don't see wingnuts marching the streets for better prenatal care. The only value of the fetus is a pawn for appeals to emotion because the honest approach of telling people you want to control their bodies and behavior just doesn't get much traction.

[janterry]

3. I guess, if that's his attitude we should also have

universal childcare. Oh, and childcare programs throughout the summer for all children.

I'm a big supporter of that, Gov.

[Ohiogal]

29. He ran and got elected

on the "axe Obamacare" platform. And KY just passed legislation making it harder for a coal miner to get diagnosed with black lung. Is there some stupid in the water down there or what?

(not like we in Ohio don't have our share of stupid, as well)

[Maxheader]

46. Unreal...

bevin..another worthless rightwinger handjob...Hopefully the good people of Kentucy
will rid themselves of this bought and paid for piece of excrement....

Last week, the Kentucky legislature passed a bill that will make it harder for coal miners to get diagnosed with, and treated for, black lung: a horrific respiratory disease that’s killed more than 76,000 miners since 1968, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

Here’s how the legislation works. If a miner files a black lung claim with the state, only a federally licensed pulmonologist can review the x-rays and ultimately make a diagnosis. Before, radiologists could offer a diagnosis as well.

That sounds like a minuscule change, but consider this factoid from NPR: “Just six pulmonologists in Kentucky have the federal certification to read black lung X-rays, and four of them routinely are hired by coal companies or their insurers, according to an NPR review of federal black lung cases.”

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Dark mind, not nice that he notified

all the perverts that he thinks are out there where to find their prey

How did he get into that mental place?

[KWR65]

17. Birds of a feather flock together.

That is what he is thinking about doing.

[SCVDem]

5. Can't forget food assistance if needed!

I think America is getting fed up with these type of attitudes.

The Blue Wave will wash these uncaring assholes from our lives.

[Angry Dragon]

6. Proof is always a good thing

[azureblue]

7. you guarantee?

Hey, then bet your office on it, if you are so sure. Put your butt where your mouth is. Go ahead - prove you are a man and man of your word. I dare you. Face it, you are a lying wimp.

[MurrayDelph]

39. The only way he could guarantee it

is if he is personally going around raping latchkey kids.

I think nude attorney general should look into it.

[turbinetree]

8. What a demented worthless piece of shit

FUCK YOU...................


November 2018 cannot get here fast enough

[Mrs. Overall]

9. Is there a f*cking republican out there who isn't coo-coo for cocoa puffs?

[appleannie1943]

10. He better get his bedtime meds changed. The ones he is taking are giving him nightmares.

Excuse me, if a child is getting sexually assaulted in their own home, that will occur no matter whether teachers strike or they don't strike. From the sounds of things, he probably already knows that from experience.

[bronxiteforever]

12. He looks deranged in a Jack Nicholson The Shining way!

[Heartstrings]

15. Oh lawd!

He does! Creepy!

[Cold War Spook]

23. Where is he looking?

I have a problem even trying that.

[sarge43]

13. Brilliant

Implying the voters in your state are perverts. Carry on, gov.

[Cartoonist]

14. What is that Pin?

A pair of scissors on a pink field.

[zbird]

26. It's actually on a red field. Red Tape Reduction Initiative.

"Governor Bevin knows that for businesses to thrive in Kentucky, the Commonwealth must cut through the red tape of excessive and complex regulatory burdens that continue to be a hardship for many small business owners. While these types of regulations can be effective and even protect public interests, they can also stifle economic growth, impose high costs on businesses and impede private sector investment.

Gov. Bevin is committed to restraining runaway government and re-empowering citizens. With your help, his Red Tape Reduction Initiative will identify costly, ineffective or outdated regulations and conduct a thorough review. The end goal is to allow businesses to operate in a modernized regulatory system that provides them with the flexibility they need to serve their customers."

http://redtapereduction.com/

There's a lovely picture of 45 on the page holding up one of the pins.

[RhodeIslandOne]

16. He should resign immediately

Clearly if he is aware of these crimes going on in his state and he has no control to stop them he should get the fuck out of office.

[saidsimplesimon]

18. Disgusting sycophant Bevin

Just following the example of a the con in chief

[FailureToCommunicate]

19. What's especially wierd is that he actually is a nice guy, a family man.

Maybe it's just the typical Republican brain disconnect from personal life ethics to politics (like there's a difference!)

It's hard for the rest of us, you know, with an empathy gene or two, to understand that mindset.

Not sure how he gets to the assumption of a kid being sexually assaulted because they are left ALONE (no school and working single parent)

By siblings? The bogey man? Teddy bears?

Weird

[malthaussen]

20. The only way he could "guarantee" this...

... is if he did it himself.

-- Mal

[MrsCoffee]

21. Was just going to post the same thing. He needs to be investigated.

[Bengus81]

22. Public school hater,home schooler,Union hating,gay/lesbian hating POS..............

Gawd Kentucky,vote the POS out next time!!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

24. Logic: if child assaulted at home it would happen more often than just when teachers are protesting.

[Nevernose]

25. I guarantee you they underfund CPS, too

Unless they’re imprisoning random brown and/or poor people, or figuring out a way to give rich people more money, Republicans don’t give a shit about anyone. Not women and children, not the middle class, not veterans, not anyone.

Someday, maybe a majority of voters will start figuring this out.

[Reader Rabbit]

27. Projection much?

I swear, any time one of these right-wing nut-jobs makes an off-the-wall accusation like this, they're telling the world something about themselves, rather than whoever they're accusing.

[JDC]

40. My first thought also, and exactly right.

[Turbineguy]

30. Crazed.

[Glorfindel]

31. That is one evil-looking person.

He looks like "Charon, the demon, with eyes like embers" as described by Dante and painted by Michelangelo in "The Last Judgment."
What on earth were the voters of Kentucky thinking when they elected such a monster?

[pamdb]

32. idiot governor

I'm sorry but teachers are not your baby sitters. That is the parents responsibility. What a stupid state. McConnell, Paul, now this bozo.
If you paid your teachers a decent salary and benefits you wouldn't have this problem. God, what an idiot.

[Faux pas]

33. No words

[packman]

34. My standard posting for such idiocy

[sarcasmo]

35. Republicans are a vile bunch.

[onecaliberal]

36. Words fail...

[GeorgeGist]

37. He knows his Republicans!

[dchill]

41. It's the politics of brain damage.

[keithbvadu2]

42. Start prosecuting the perps, governor.

[WhiteTara]

43. sounds like he is confessing.

[left-of-center2012]

44. He has 9 kids ...

According to Wikipedia he and his wife have 9 kids,
and is evangelical Christian.

The children are 'homeschooled', I guess by the mother.

[FailureToCommunicate]

49. He and wife Glenna had five kids, then they decided to adopt four kids from Ethiopia.

[left-of-center2012]

52. 4 + 5 9

He and his wife have 9 kids.

[FailureToCommunicate]

56. Yes.

Just providing some context to how they 'got' to that large of a family.

[Owl]

45. Bevin is a sick man.

[Gore1FL]

47. I guess more reason to pay our teachers more. nt

[wolfie001]

48. Stupid rednecked asshat!

That's all

[riversedge]

50. There is no rational comment I could make to that, Kentucky Education Association President

The US has some real mad crazy officials.




Kentucky governor claims that children were raped, used drugs while teachers protested


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2018/04/14/kentucky-governor-claims-that-children-were-raped-used-drugs-while-teachers-protested/?utm_term=.261758dee88e


by Alex Horton April 14 at 1:08 PM Email the author
1:38
Kentucky governor claims children were sexually assaulted, used drugs while teachers protested

Gov. Matt Bevin (R-Ky.) ...................................

Jefferson County Teachers Association President Brent McKim pushed back on Bevin’s remarks, noting that the protest amounted to just Friday and that more than 30 school districts participating in the demonstrations tried to give parents advanced notice about closures.

“The bottom line is that’s one day. He was cutting hundreds of millions of dollars from kids that would impact every day, and that’s what we were in Frankfort to stop,” McKim said, according to the Courier-Journal. “We were there with the overwhelming support and encouragement of our parents who know that we care about every student in our classes.”

Kentucky Education Association President Stephanie Winkler said she was “appalled” by Bevin’s comment. “There is no rational comment I could make to that,” Winkler said, the Courier-Journal reported.

Teachers from across the state gather inside the Kentucky Capitol building Friday in Frankfort, calling for increased funding for education. (Bryan Woolston/AP)

Kentucky has become the latest flash point over the battle of school funding and higher pay that have led to recent teacher victories. West Virginia teachers walked out for nine days, forcing a 5 percent pay increase in March. In Arizona, protests and walkouts triggered Republican Gov. Doug Ducey’s promise of a 20 percent raise by 2020. And in Oklahoma, Gov. Mary Fallin (R) raised teacher salaries by $6,100 and boosted funding by millions. But those figures fell well below teacher demands of $10,000 raises for teachers, $6,000 for support staff and $200 million for statewide funding.

The teachers in Kentucky have also protested for changes to the state pension system, among the worst-funded in the nation, the Associated Press reported. Education groups argue that less generous retirement funds may dissuade younger people from becoming teachers.

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[Puzzler]

51. Oh FFS!!!

-Puzzler

[meadowlander]

53. If teachers have the ability to stop poisoning and sex abuse we should probably pay them a lot

shouldn't we?

[zonemaster]

54. "Rape! Murder! It's just a strike away! It's just a strike away!"

Where's Merry Clayton, Mick & the boys when you need them:

[Lokilooney]

55. Because all parents are off 3 months in the summer..

And during spring break, winter break, weekends...