Posted on 11/21/2016 10:40:37 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
FRANKFORT — State Rep. Kevin Sinnette said in sworn testimony before the House Investigatory Committee on Executive Actions Friday that after he rebuffed an offer to join the Republican Party, his district received nothing in a biennial highway plan passed earlier this year.
The only problem? It wasn’t true.
The committee is investigating possible foul play in the delay of an $11 million road project in Rep. Russell Meyer’s 39th House District. Meyer, D-Nicholasville, says the contracted extension of East Brannon Road was put on hold because he declined join the GOP at Gov. Matt Bevin’s request.
Bevin has disputed both lawmakers’ accusations.
Sinnette, D-Ashland, says he was threatened during a December meeting with Bevin, Chief of Staff Blake Brickman and Rep. Fitz Steele, D-Hazard. CNHI News first reported his account of the meeting.
Sinnette said Meyer’s allegation got him thinking and made him check road projects in his 100th House District.
“We reviewed the other counties around us, and Rowan County got $13 million, Greenup County got $12 million, Elliott County $26 million, Carter County $24 million, Lawrence County $27 million,” he said during the two-and-a-half-hour meeting. “I got nothing.”
But Sinnette was relying on a previous version of the road plan passed by the Senate this year.
The final version that Sinnette voted on, another House bill that was not the original biennial highway construction play, included money for the project in question — a half million dollars to build a left turn lane on U.S. 23 for a Marathon Oil development.
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A perfect Democrat, in other words.
I’ll bet he made more cocktail parties than committee meetings.
Sinnette lives up to his name.
Little lies.
Sinnette can you read? Or can’t you read big words?
So this happened last December & he’s only now complaining? And the other Dems in the meeting are not willing to come forward to verify his story?
Pretty fishy.
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