tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105675602024-03-18T23:19:47.758-04:00Kentucky ProgressCheck back often for news and commentary about Kentucky by David Adams.
Contact via email: kyprogress(at)yahoo.com or Lexington area telephone 537-5372.David Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07868018032704003876noreply@blogger.comBlogger4807125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10567560.post-36201131831175417052021-03-16T14:25:00.002-04:002021-03-16T14:26:41.057-04:00Paper screws up Beshear Impeachment story For whatever reason, the Lexington Herald Leader's story about the unconstitutionality of KRS 63.070 isn't stuck behind a paywall so you can read it here. It is a special mess of bad journalism, of course.First, the headline editorializes that impeachment petitioners are suing "to avoid paying." While impeachment costs are part of the lawsuit, the real news is that the Commonwealth of David Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07868018032704003876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10567560.post-55078039296697079132021-02-28T22:04:00.001-05:002021-02-28T22:04:46.627-05:00Beshear botches Face the Nation Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear's appearance on national television Sunday was embarrassing, as he turned his fifteen minutes of coronavirus fame into a ridiculously unfounded sales pitch for Johnson & Johnson's new vaccine. "Johnson & Johnson is going to be a game-changer," he said. "The fact that we can fully vaccinate everyone in just one shot; that it basically eliminates death David Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07868018032704003876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10567560.post-15733866030857565242021-02-16T16:46:00.004-05:002021-02-16T17:10:11.611-05:00Beshear refuses again to provide evidence Gov. Andy Beshear's latest response to Impeachment Committee members posted today again failed to provide the requested information. If House members felt Beshear's arrogant disrespect directed at all Kentuckians but specifically addressed to them last time, they should feel it at least double now.Kentucky's House Impeachment Committee already has the information they need to recommend the David Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07868018032704003876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10567560.post-89458328742156723232021-02-15T14:37:00.001-05:002021-02-15T14:37:24.992-05:00Earth to LRC staff: Post evidence NOW At the last House Impeachment Committee meeting Thursday, February 11, Chairman Jason Nemes asked staff to post the latest evidence from Governor Andy Beshear as soon as possible. Four days later, it is still hidden from public view.What is wrong with these people? The House Impeachment Committee's "investigation" is over. We know Beshear has broken the law and flaunted incompetence worthy David Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07868018032704003876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10567560.post-65838871363685773892021-02-12T10:42:00.003-05:002021-02-12T10:58:14.991-05:00Earth to Committee: call Mike Harmon Yesterday's House Impeachment Committee meeting was inexplicably delayed hours past its 4pm scheduled start, no action was taken on the impeachment -- including failing to post Gov. Beshear's latest answer to their demand for evidence -- and then all we got was two witnesses reading the same constitutional sections about why legislators can't be impeached. Meanwhile, Auditor Mike David Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07868018032704003876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10567560.post-23802412324180119102021-02-09T12:31:00.001-05:002021-02-09T12:31:34.197-05:00Andy Beshear's Unemployment fiasco deepens Gov. Andy Beshear's disturbing string of screw ups with federal and state unemployment insurance funds is starting to get more attention. The curious may want to recall his March 25, 2020 press release in which he told people who walked away from work for fear of covid to go ahead and grab their benefits.David Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07868018032704003876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10567560.post-58961371477850275702021-02-08T16:52:00.001-05:002021-02-08T16:52:43.091-05:00Why Jacqueline Coleman will make a better Kentucky Governor than Andy BeshearGovernor Andy Beshear's mindless government shutdowns and the Kentucky Supreme Court's rubber stamping leave citizens with only one way out: impeachment.Well-meaning critics have asked how removing Beshear and replacing him with LG Jacqueline Coleman (click here and listen to 12:24 - 12:37) will make life better for regular people when her policy positions are at least as destructive as his. David Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07868018032704003876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10567560.post-86143419454934150112016-08-03T15:57:00.001-04:002016-08-03T17:09:54.832-04:00Russ Meyer gives million dollars to cronies, taxpayers get a small hole in the groundState Rep. Russ Meyer's ten year old scheme to hand massive Democrat donor Clay Corman more than a million dollars for a vacant hole in the ground in Nicholasville deserves a closer look.
"Everyone knows about government waste and corruption but too many people don't do anything to stop it," Kentucky Progress publisher David Adams said. "Russ Meyer has had ten years to set this right and he's David Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07868018032704003876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10567560.post-32594899118686586862016-08-01T19:18:00.000-04:002016-08-01T20:09:43.385-04:00Russ Meyer wasted taxpayer money buying a hole in the ground and overpaying friends to fill it inEmbattled incumbent Democrat State Representative Russ Meyer of Nicholasville already faces a stiff challenge by Republican Rob Gullette thanks to Meyer's bad votes this year against Gov. Matt Bevin's repair of the ObamaCare disaster, but then there is a little matter of a hole in the ground on Main Street.
Meyer was the Mayor of Nicholasville from 2007 to 2014. In early 2007, Meyer conspired David Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07868018032704003876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10567560.post-91698244643020443812016-07-29T22:24:00.001-04:002016-07-29T22:30:28.396-04:00Bevin stops ObamaCare insurer's bait-and-switchAt first glance, Kentucky ObamaCare insurer CareSource's approved rate increase looks odd. Better known as a Medicaid managed care coverage provider but also selling on the exchange, CareSource requested a large 20.55% rate increase request for individual ObamaCare customers but their rate is going up a staggering 29.3%.
This is a great move by Gov. Matt Bevin in the aftermath of the Kentucky David Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07868018032704003876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10567560.post-73017618495065063262016-07-26T18:41:00.000-04:002016-07-27T09:50:25.429-04:00Will Kentucky lose game of 'Medicaid chicken?' That's a question for Trump and ClintonObamaCare cheerleaders in the media keep talking about Gov. Matt Bevin's attempt to renegotiate Kentucky's abysmal Medicaid expansion deal into a somewhat less abysmal deal, but they continue to leave out the most important point. Gov. Bevin's claim that he might unilaterally withdraw from Medicaid expansion is not supported by federal or state law or relevant case law, but federal officials David Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07868018032704003876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10567560.post-50946715639089911612016-07-23T21:30:00.000-04:002016-07-23T21:30:39.867-04:00Louisville Rep. files state sovereignty billState Representative Kevin Bratcher has filed a bill which would tell the federal government where to stick unconstitutional mandates against state governments which exceed federal authority. The bill, filed as a joint resolution, could be an effective election issue for Republicans seeking a majority in the state House of Representatives.
"Bratcher's resolution states clearly the General David Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07868018032704003876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10567560.post-83615877525177951522016-07-20T23:34:00.000-04:002016-07-20T23:34:01.815-04:00Let's get rid of Baby BeshearWatching a craven Andy Beshear recklessly and repeatedly attack Gov. Matt Bevin with state tax dollars from the Attorney General's office for no better reasons than that his father shook down the Democrat donor class to buy him the office and because he can is getting pretty old. He needs to be impeached.
The one sticking point is Republicans must take a majority in this November's elections andDavid Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07868018032704003876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10567560.post-89311468163545349122016-07-19T10:11:00.000-04:002016-07-19T10:11:23.726-04:00Bevin to Obama: Beshear wrong about MedicaidGovernor Matt Bevin's formal request to federal authorities to rein in Kentucky's failed Medicaid expansion contains a one line critique of the lawless Beshear Administration that will make Frankfort ObamaCare cheerleaders in the media mad when they read it.
"The reality is that Medicaid expansion does not pay for itself as envisioned by the prior administration," Bevin's Section 1115 David Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07868018032704003876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10567560.post-54805460977843133192016-07-14T13:59:00.000-04:002016-07-14T14:07:02.560-04:00Fayette County "Boys of Color" program misguidedFayette County Schools has received a $600,000 charitable grant to start a doomed program which deserves immediate awareness so its inevitable failure may not be a total waste.
With overheated fanfare, Fayette Superintendent Manny Caulk announced the start of another attempt to reduce racial education achievement gaps, telling the Lexington Herald Leader "today we stand before our community to David Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07868018032704003876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10567560.post-18489907065402015952016-07-14T10:55:00.002-04:002016-07-14T10:55:45.781-04:00Humana just made things worse here and Matt Bevin can do something about it nowHumana has withdrawn its request to raise ObamaCare premiums 33.7% next year and Gov. Matt Bevin should use the move as a reason to start pushing for repeal of Kentucky's certificate of need laws.
The withdrawal is related to Humana's pending merger with Aetna, whose 5.6% individual market rate hike for 2017 has already been approved. That's bad news for Aetna's ObamaCare members because those David Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07868018032704003876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10567560.post-85200346689085155232016-07-13T15:49:00.000-04:002016-07-13T15:49:37.177-04:00Bevin deserves kudos for latest ObamaCare moveFormer Gov. Steve Beshear and Frankfort House Democrats made a huge mess of the rule of law attempting repeatedly the last few years to cram ObamaCare down our throats. Gov. Matt Bevin just quietly took a big step to clear up what could have been real chaos on that front as part of keeping his campaign promise to shut down Kentucky's state-run ObamaCare exchange.
Beshear's cartoonish repeated David Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07868018032704003876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10567560.post-15392515129221098472016-07-08T12:13:00.003-04:002016-07-08T12:54:00.608-04:00Bevin should make medical marijuana tax freeAs Kentucky moves closer to legalizing marijuana for medical use, tax policy deserves special consideration in treatment of the plant and Kentucky can lead the way nationally by leaving all elements of production and distribution untaxed. At issue is the fact that federal designation of marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug allows the Internal Revenue Service to prohibit the use of any deductions of David Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07868018032704003876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10567560.post-22693851515617972392016-07-05T19:05:00.001-04:002016-07-05T19:20:02.401-04:00Kynect "insurance" enrollment dropped in Gov. Steve Beshear's last year in officeFormer Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear continues fumbling around the state in support of the ObamaCare debacle, but soon to be released statistics will show even constituents drawing federal subsidies to purchase jacked-up health policies in the last year dropped them here about as quickly as in any other state.
"Premiums are skyrocketing, doctors are quitting and people are suffering while David Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07868018032704003876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10567560.post-28048118776037919042016-06-30T22:40:00.000-04:002016-06-30T22:40:14.007-04:00Rand Paul can aid Matt Bevin Medicaid negotiationsKentucky Gov. Matt Bevin has threatened to reverse expanded Medicaid here if federal officials reject his proposed reforms, but federal law does not allow him to follow through on his threat. The interesting wrinkle is the feds don't want to call his bluff now because they are still trying to trap more Republican governors like those in Arizona, Florida and Ohio in the Medicaid expansion roach David Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07868018032704003876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10567560.post-31628834138797830992016-06-30T14:49:00.001-04:002016-06-30T14:49:18.489-04:00Donald Trump has me on the wrong fundraising listHey, I got an email from Donald Trump just now.
Today is a big fundraising deadline for the presidential race, so the generic email request for money I got is not a surprise. But I would like to state publicly why I won't respond positively to this one.
"With your help today," the email reads, "we can turn our great country around and Make American Great Again. We can secure our borders, createDavid Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07868018032704003876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10567560.post-4061353703182166402016-06-26T08:35:00.000-04:002016-06-27T06:36:39.208-04:00Democrat state employees don't hate Matt BevinA political sea change appears underway in Frankfort which could be very bad news for Kentucky Democrat operatives accustomed to ruling the roost.
It seems the largest voting block in Franklin County, Democrat state employees, appreciates Gov. Matt Bevin's keen interest in reversing the Gov. Steve Beshear policy of using public pension money to pay off political cronies. They also like the David Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07868018032704003876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10567560.post-18350662073893286122016-06-25T10:41:00.001-04:002016-06-25T11:17:54.575-04:00Jack Conway sides with Bevin against Andy BeshearNine months ago, Attorney General Jack Conway urged Gov. Steve Beshear to reorganize the University of Louisville Board of Trustees, suggesting an "executive reorganization under KRS 12.028." (OAG 15-015) Current Attorney General Andy "Baby" Beshear is now suing Gov. Matt Bevin for reorganizing the University of Louisville Board of Trustees through an executive reorganization under KRS 12.028.
David Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07868018032704003876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10567560.post-79223832825225225272016-06-21T19:34:00.001-04:002016-06-21T19:34:05.739-04:00Tell Hal Rogers to drop REAL ID fetishThe U.S. House Appropriations Committee will take up Homeland Security funding Wednesday, which would include continuing to pour money into a national identification and tracking program called REAL ID. Committee Chairman Hal Rogers should heed the call of Kentuckians to end the charade and drop further funding for REAL ID.
"Big government types claim forcing Americans to carry a federal ID cardDavid Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07868018032704003876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10567560.post-37660241421985533892016-06-13T19:37:00.000-04:002016-06-13T19:37:04.531-04:00DEA may reschedule medical marijuana in JulyFederal drug warriors at the DEA are being dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century as Congress warms to the idea of allowing Veterans Administration doctors to prescribe marijuana for their patients.
"Marijuana has been deemed a 'Schedule 1' drug by the feds, meaning that it has no medicinal value and only hurts people but we know that isn't true and already half of states have David Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07868018032704003876noreply@blogger.com