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No Battery Plant For Hardin County, Kentucky. Mitch McConnell And Brett Guthrie Couldn't Deliver!

Senator Mitch McConnell, Senator Jim Bunning, Geoff Davis, Brett Guthrie, Hal Rogers and Ed Whitfield opposed the $787 billion stimulus that would fund projects like the battery plant. Well they won and Kentuckians lost.
Of course Anne Northup won't be without a high paying government job, Senator Mitch McConnell took care of her. Some folks believe Senator Mitch McConnell traded the Battery plant off to get his pal Anne Northup a plum job on the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission. Thanks Mitch!

Geoff Davis Are You Listening?

July 15, 2009 I posted this article, "Support for Public Option Health Care Rally at Congressman Davis' District Office."
So I thought what the Hell, I'll drive the 140 miles and try to capture this with video. When I arrived I found 3 people at the Rally, John Waltz, his wife Janie Waltz and Lucy Sterling and I thought to myself this is a Rally?
I guess John Waltz saw my frustration and doubt and he said, we're a little short on people today, but there will be plenty of participation. I thought  plenty of participation? What in the Hell is this young man talking about? John Waltz then suggested I set my camcorder up to shoot video of him and his wife holding signs and capture all the horns honking in support of a Public Option Health Care Plan. I did what he suggested and much to my amazement the participation began, the folks driving on Buttermilk Pike, in  Fort Mitchell, KY. began to honk their horns in approval of a Public Option Health Care Plan and Geoff Davis's offices on both sides of the street were hearing the horns honking.
It's been a long time since I've seen a politician actually stand up for what he or she  believes in, no matter what the odds, shades of Andrew Horne.
John Waltz Act Blue Page. Click here to view his calendar of events.

Sen. Sherrod Brown Cast The 60th Vote! Obama Can Sign The $787 Billion Economic Stimulus Plan Into Law. Yes!!

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Last night Sen. Sherrod Brown returned from his mother's memorial services to cast the decisive 60th vote needed to send the $787 billion economic stimulus plan to President Barack Obama.
Many of us remember when Senator Sherrod Brown was running for a seat in the House of Representatives and he pledged not to accept his free government health care until everyone in the United States had the same luxury. (He's still waiting). This guy is a leader!

It's a shame that Kentucky's Mitch McConnell, Jim Bunning, Ed Whitfield, Brett Guthrie, Geoff Davis and Hal Rogers have decided  to walk in goose step  lockstep with the Republican  Minister of  Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, Rush Limbaugh, rather than reach their full potential as leaders like Sen. Sherrod Brown.
 

H.R. 226: Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2009. Suppression Of The Fairness Doctrine.

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Opinion by Ron Leach

While the new administration and US Legislature (with significant bi-partisan support) are attempting to hit the ground running with an appropriate sense of urgency and pragmatic non-partisan solutions this moment in our nation's history requires, there are still those among our representatives that choose to hit the ground digging, building a bunker and fortification to protect their narrow agenda and self interests rather than represent our commonwealth or our nation.  Regrettably, it appears that two of our state's own US house members (Brett Guthrie, R-KY-2, and Geoff Davis, R-KY-4) are among those entrenched in protecting a narrow non-representative agenda and not ready to lend a hand towards steering a nation beyond the divisive partisan poisoned politics of the past several decades. Congressman Davis and Guthrie's early record in the 111th congress suggests that they do not understand that we need to get past the divisive culture and partisan wars of the past. They do not recognize that the urgency of our dire state and national condition does not benefit from entrenched partisanship and the stale old battle lines. They fail to acknowledge that at this crucial moment in history that non-partisan solutions and grand bargains are required and that the electorate has endorsed and is demanding a new direction, a new political environment, new responsibility, openness to ideas and a transparent and effective government.

A quick look at their positions, co-sponsorships, and voting record in these early days of the 111ht congress support my suggestion that they just don’t get it. 

I will discuss one example presently – co-sponsorship of HR 226.

Despite the tragic results of the previous eight years of rule by executive decree, stove pipe decision making and shredding of the basic tenets of our constitution - made possible to a great degree by the systematic silencing and or slandering of any and all voices of opposition – (no matter the experience, esteem, moderate nature or true patriotism of those opposition voices); Congressman Guthrie and Davis are cosponsoring House Resolution 226 that seeks to prevent the Federal Communications Commission from enacting any regulation that might promote the free marketplace of ideas and opinions. Specifically it seeks to ensure that the FCC can not reinstate the "Fairness Doctrine" which was suspended during the early years of the radical rights's rise in the mid 1980's. HR 226 reads –"Commission shall not have the authority to prescribe any rule, regulation, policy, doctrine, standard, or other requirement that has the purpose or effect of reinstating or re-promulgating (in whole or in part) the requirement that broadcasters present opposing viewpoints on controversial issues of public importance, commonly referred to as the `Fairness Doctrine'". 

It is no surprise that this would be a first order of business for those entrenched in a narrow radical agenda. It was this suspension of the Fairness Doctrine and the suppression of equal access to our airwaves, consolidation of the media, and a suppression of free speech, that enabled the radical right to consolidate its power and reshape the political and social landscape into the social, economic and political ruble that the right's revolution has left us with. Their message of radical partisanship and an agenda serving the select few can only flourish in a vacuum devoid of open thought and exchange of ideas that is the right wing propaganda machine. There is a continued strength of this well funded, focused, and disciplined machine; despite being thoroughly discredited by the culminating collapse of the past year. But a narrow self serving agenda which is represented by the radical right depends on the continued suspension of the open exchange of ideas promoted by the Fairness Doctrine. Congressman Guthrie and Davis co-sponsorship of HR 226 represents their endorsement of the continued suppression of free speech and exchange of ideas.

Let Congressman Guthrie and Davis know that we do not fear the open and free expression of ideas. Let them know that the strength of a free people and a truly representative democracy require protection and the free exercise of all voices. If their tired discredited dogma and narrow ideology that has brought our nation to our current broad based national crises can survive in a free market place of ideas, so be it.  If it requires the continued suppression of a balanced and open marketplace of ideas as an artificial life support, then let their radial right ideology die a natural death and take its place in history with the multitude of other failed ideologies which have sought to favor the few and suppress the democratic process.

Congressman Guthrie and Congressman Davis; It is time to lead, follow, or get out of the way. Clinging to the failed ideologies of the past, propped up via the suppression of free and fair expression, will not serve the commonwealth of Kentucky or our Nation. 

Ronald Leach
Hardinsburg, KY

The Livingston Group And Kentucky Republicans.

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Remember Congressman Bob Livingston saying "I have decided to inform my colleagues and my constituents that during my 33-year marriage to my wife, Bonnie, I have on occasion strayed from my marriage. Doing so nearly cost me my marriage and my family." Bob Livingston resigned and now heads up the Livingston Group. Recently Bernie Robinson a Livingston group consultant has been very generous to Kentucky Republicans.

• Brett Guthrie .......................$1,000
• Ed. WhitField .......................$2,000
• Mitch Mcconnell ..................$1,500
• Kentucky Republican Party ...$5,000

The Livingston Group represents Libya (Remember Pan Am 103?) as lobbyist in Washington D.C. The Livingston Group has also represented Turkey as lobbyist in Washington D.C.

Congress Watch, an arm of Public Citizen, released a 49-page report highlighting ethical concerns about the Livingston Group's lobbying efforts for the Turkish Government. The report details the efforts by Livingston, to secure a "$1 billion supplemental appropriation for Turkey. . . despite that country’s refusal to allow U.S. troops to use its soil as a staging area for the Iraq invasion. He also helped kill an amendment that would have formally recognized the Armenian Genocide that occurred between 1915 and 1923." The Livingston Group has received over $10 million in payments from Turkey. To read this entire report, visit:
http://www.lobbyinginfo.org/documents/RevolveDoor.pdf

Kentucky Congressmen Harold "Hal" Rogers, Geoff Davis And The Most Reverend Congressman Ron Lewis Cut And Ran From The Troops And The 2008 GI Bill!!!!

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So much for supporting the troops, Congressmen Harold "Hal" Rogers, (R-5) Ky. and Geoff Davis (R-4) Ky. voted against the 2008 GI Bill and The Most Reverend Congressman Ron Lewis (R2) Ky. didn't even bother to vote!
I just can't understand why veterans vote for these folks when these guys vote against them  time and time again.
Dave Jarrett maybe you can enlighten us as to why you supported Congressman Ron Lewis! Could it be that you were more interested in taking care of yourself rather than taking care of the troops?
I suggest that S. Brett Guthrie Republican Candidate for Kentucky's 2nd Congressional seat will bring us more of the same pseudo patriotism and you, Dave Jarrett, can continue, what I feel and in my opinion, sticking it to the troops and taking care of yourself!!!!

Geoff Davis Apologizes To Barack Obama For Calling Barack Boy.

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Geoff Davis apologizes to Barack Obama, thus avoiding a black eye and a fat lip. Geoff, seems to have let his Jim Crow roots slip right out of his mouth.
Geoff Davis, sir I suggest you view the photos below and get an idea what you're gonna look like when you call the wrong man a boy!!!!