Kentucky Apocalypse

[donsu]

http://aliberaldose.blogspot.com/2006/05/gop-prisonwatch_12.html


In a massive, unprecedented collapse, over a dozen executive members of Kentucky's state government have been indicted on charges ranging from conspiracy to perjury, in a pit of criminal quicksand that has finally pulled down even the governor.

Events culminated in today's grand jury indictment of Governor Ernie Fletcher on three counts of conspiracy, official misconduct and political discrimination. While all three charges are classified as misdemeanors, the maximum punishment for official misconduct is up to 12 months in jail and a $500 fine.

The other two charges carry a maximum punishment of six months in jail, forfeiture of state office, and a ban on holding any state job for five years.

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In addition to the governor, 13 Republican administration officials have been indicted with 48 misdemeanor and 22 felony charges, including conspiracy, perjury, attempting to influence witnesses, and shredding and altering evidence. Among the list are the Republican state chairman and treasurer, and 14 additional sealed indictments are pending.

The names of the other indictees is a virtual roll call of the Republican state cabinet: Republican State Chairman Darrell Brock, Republican State Treasurer Dave Disponett, Republican party official J. Marshall Hughes, chief of staff Daniel Groves, deputy chief of staff Dick Murgatroyd, state personnel adviser Basil Turbyfill, outreach office member Vine Fields, transportation executive director Cory Meadows, transportation secretary Bill Nighbert, transportation cabinet commissioner Dan Druen, and transportation cabinet official Sam Beverage.

The charges are the fruition of a yearlong investigation by state attorney general Greg Stumbo, acting on a complaint filed by former assistant transportation personnel director Douglas W. Doerting. Deorting produced emails and other unspecified evidence that the governor and 12 of his associates had conspired to hire, fire, promote and demote state employees based upon personal friendships and Republican party loyalty in violation of merit-based state employment laws. Stumbo's office described the Governor's Personnel Initiative program as a "corrupt political machine" designed to fill state jobs with Republican associates.
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wow! give Greg Stumbo a gold star

[acmavm]

1. Well, so much for the republicans bringing decency and integrity back

into government. Or anything else for that matter.

What's worse than being called a bastard or a son of a bitch? Being called a republican.

[LiberalPartisan]

2. As Kentucky goes - so goes the Bush admin!! (we hope) n/t

[AverageJoe]

3. Greg Stumbo used to be my neighbor

He's a great guy and comes from a great family. Stumbo is working hard to protect the Commonwealth from the crooks in power.

[katinmn]

4. Wow. Republicans seem to universally corrupt!

[Democrat 4 Ever]

5. It's déjà vu all over again! Fletcher swept into office on the coattails

of a "horrible, terrible" Democratic Governor who had an affair with someone and helped her out politically. Fletcher was going to bring back dignity and honesty to Frankfort - not!

While I don't condone affairs, or blow jobs with people other than your significant other, I will always contend they are much safer for democracy than a Republican, or any stripe, any day.

One more thing - Fletcher is a preacher! I kid you not!

*Edit - Typo Saturday

[undergroundpanther]

6. They ARE

They seek power to serve themselves.

http://www.unknownnews.org/060502a-Panther.html
Excerpt: In The Conquest of A Continent, for example, Grant relates how the Nordic (Aryan, etc.) race forcefully occupied North America, destroying its forests, looting its minerals, exhausting its soils, and evicting the Indians: "Waste was the order of the day in America:"

All this was perhaps inevitable, but never since Caesar plundered Gaul has so large a territory been sacked in so short a time. Probably no more destructive human being has ever appeared on the world stage than the American pioneer with his axe and rifle. Yet it was precisely those pioneers whom the Boone and Crockett Club eponymously honored, and who were perennially invoked as emblematic of Racial Will -- of the daring, dash, and ruthless enterprise which had lifted America to world dominance, and Grant, Osborn, Roosevelt, et al. to the apex of its social ladder. Grant's plunderers were those same industrialists and bankers (or the fathers who bequeathed them fortunes from the sacking) who, at the turn of the century, took up the twin causes of conservation and eugenics.

[Tigress DEM]

11. Well, except for those in the House & Senate who swing over...

when it looks like *ush is driving the Nation toward the cliffs.

Now for OHIO! If we could only get Ken Blackwell out of there.

[Tigress DEM]

7. Well, KY will have a Great! Stumbo FITZMAS this year.

Whooo Hooo! How do we write to Stumbo to give him our thanks for taking a big TRUTH hammer up to the maw of power and giving it a good ol' whap for US?

:woohoo:

WE gotta DEMAND that MSM cover this!

[donsu]

9. yes, where's the media?

nt

[Tigress DEM]

10. Dunno. Killed my TV.

:rofl:

[leftofthedial]

8. when will the Justice Department wise up?

The GOP is an organized crime operation.