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Louie Nunn was the last GOP GUV. But, I think you're a little off track. Nunn repealed the tax on food and medicine and instituted the nickel gas tax. Hence, the nickname Nickel Nunn. The reason we haven't had any GOP governor's is the unholy alliance of state contractors being able to contribute to campaigns.

We'd had a GOP GOV in 1999, but that buttplug McConnell cut a deal so he wouldn't have competition this year. Thanks, McFraud.

Well, I may have the sequence of events confused. I do recall Walter D. Huddleston, who defeated former Governor Nunn for the Senate in 1972 (the same day as the Nixon landslide) used the issue of a tax on food and prescription drugs AGAINST Nunn. Nunn narrowly lost that Senate race. Ironically, on the same night, another "Nunn," Sam Nunn, was elected senator in GA. At any rate, Nunn was discredited, and Kentuckians also vetoed his gubernatorial comeback attempt in 1979. Who is running against McConnell this year? I had forgotten that his seat is up for election.
I would imagine that Henry will be the next governor, as the tradition of Democrat governors in now stronger in KY than it is in AR, LA, MS, and AL.