The political speeches will soon be underway at #FancyFarm. I’ll be tweeting as much as the tenuous cell signal allows.
And here is your emcee, @RyanQuarlesKY, who calls #FancyFarm “the Super Bowl of Kentucky politics.
The Democrats seem considerably louder this year than Republicans, who I think were far louder in 2016. @RyanQuarlesKY attributes that to “professional protestors bussed in from out of state.”
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At the Oldham County Rotary Club luncheon, where @KYSecState Michael Adams is speaking on the upcoming elections.
Adams dubs his speech “The best of times, the worst of times.”
Election security and transparency are at all time highs, he says, but “it’s a literally dangerous time to be an election official.”
Of 3 million people who voted in Kentucky in 2020, Adams says, only one person was caught cheating - a guy who requested two absentee ballots.
The second ballot was easily detected (“We’re not dummies,” Adams says) and the guy was criminally charged, he says.
At the police merit board hearing for an appeal from former LMPD Ofc. Joshua Jaynes, who was fired for his role submitting the search warrant in the case that led to the death of Breonna Taylor. Right now, Yvette Gentry, the former interim chief who fired Jaynes, is testifying.
Gentry says she relied on evidence & testimony from 8 LMPD officers to determine Jaynes violated operating procedure in preparing search warrant forms, but more importantly, violated department’s “untruthfullness” policy. She says the former would not have gotten Jaynes fired.
Gentry: Untruthfulness violation came from Jaynes claiming on search warrant that certain info came from U.S. Postal Service, when it did not. Background: Warrant said Taylor's ex-boyfriend, suspected drug dealer, was receiving packages potentially containing drugs from her home.
At a press conference with @UPS VP of State Government Affairs Nick D’Andrea, @GLIchamber President and CEO Sarah Davasher-Wisdom and @LeaderMcConnell, following a round table with local business leaders.
The labor shortage was a major topic in the meeting with @LeaderMcConnell. “This is a multi-faceted problem and it will require multi-faceted solutions,” @GLICEOSarah says.
The two biggest problems @LeaderMcConnell says he is hearing about is the labor shortage and inflation. McConnell blames Kentucky’s labor shortage on @GovAndyBeshear’s unwillingness to withdraw federal bonus unemployment payments.
A grand jury has indicted Brett Hankison in three counts of wanton endangerment in the #BreonnaTaylor case.
Myles Cosgrove and Johnathan Mattingly were not indicted by a grand jury in the #BreonnaTaylor case.
And if I understand correctly, these charges of wanton endangerment against Hankison were not related to Breonna Taylor’s death, but rather his blindly firing into neighboring apartments.
At Louisville Metro Council chambers, for a press conference with a bipartisan group of state lawmakers and council members who want more than eight polling locations, as Jefferson County Clerk Bobbie Holsclaw recently announced.
Metro Council President David James begins by ticking off a list of counties with far smaller populations than Jefferson, but yet more voting locations. And Rep. Jerry Miller notes forecasts that Louisville May see a staggering 70 percent turnout.
Milers says 8,000 ballots were thrown out in the primary. Based on 70 percent predicted turnout, 20,000 ballots could be thrown out. There are many elections that have been decided by far fewer votes. Calls on @KYSecState to reject Holsclaw’s plan.
The Louisville Metro Council’s Republican caucus leader, Kevin Kramer, says they filed the resolution for a vote of no-confidence in @louisvillemayor not just b/c of errors they believe he made, but because of his “attitude and judgment.”
But Markus Winkler, head of the council’s Democratic caucus, calls a no-confidence vote the wrong move. He has introduced an amendment with numerous policy recommendations for @louisvillemayor instead.
Republican James Peden says the amendment’s recommendations are ambiguous, many lack specific date targets, and there are no consequences if @louisvillemayor ignores them.