Saturday, March 18, 2006

Terry McBrayer: A Smart Political Hack

The following from this story this morning tells us Terry McBrayer is not only running for Governor, but that he isn't shy about scaring and manipulating innocent people to further his own cause:

St. Joseph Hospital and Associated Healthcare Systems of Jessamine County, which would be owned by the same company that owns Samaritan Hospital, both want to open ambulatory care clinics in Nicholasville.
Associated Healthcare Systems of Jessamine County previously filed an application to put a new hospital in Jessamine County through the Certificate of Need process.

So McBrayer's histrionics about Jessamine countians' immediate need for a 50 bed hospital seem to have already gone by the wayside. Yet Jessamine countians are circulating petitions and placing angry calls to the Governor's office for something no hospital company wants to build anymore. Or, as far as lobbyist McBrayer is concerned, it's Mission Accomplished.

Nice hachet job, Terry McBrayer. Jessamine countians and all Kentuckians would do well to remember that when you play with snakes you are likely to get bitten.