Posted on 09/28/2002 9:50:55 AM PDT by forest
Felony is involved. In exchange for sex, Patton influenced regulators and appointed her to at least 3 boards or commissions.
Very honorable Republican office holders in the Kentucky General Assembly are talking hearing and impeachment.
And are the voters of Kentucky as stupid as the voters of New York who gave the wife of a sex addict a United States Senate seat because she had suffered so much?
No one is removed from office because others wish it. Neither are they removed just because they did things that would get ordinary citizens jailed. They get removed by a process that has to be begun, tended, and carried through to a solid conclusion.
What is that process? And where are the legions of radio talk show hosts to lead the charge of their "constituents."
Congressman Billybob
Click for "Til Death Do Us Part."
Make no mistake, she is a whore. Like any other whore she had sex for money. As a mater of fact I have more respect for a "regular" whore than her, most of them will admit to being one.
Patton is merely following in the steps of the "Big Dawg" so the dems love him in Ky.
Patton doesn't give a sheeeet what anyone thinks of him. I guarantee he wont step down and they wont boot him out.
Doug, excellent essay!
Two questions:
1) Is it true that his current wife was his former secretary?
2) How did his current wife's husband die so that Patton could marry her?
This is delicious.
1) Is it true that his current wife was his former secretary?
2) How did his current wife's husband die so that Patton could marry her?
There are all sorts of rumors about the death of Judi Patton's first husband. I suspect some investigative type who wants to do a book (or get a journalistic award perhaps) will dig into this.
The Dems are in a spot here. They know more revelations are coming (other women, for example) so how much damage are they willing to absorb before they throw Patton to the wolves?
I give this about a week before Patton does resign "for the good of the people of Kentucky, sob, sob!" He's got to go and the sooner the better.
He won't resign. Honor -- "doing the right thing" -- is simply not in the playbook of the arrogant, selfish leftists.
Generally speaking, I do not wish to delve into the "personal" lives of politicians and so did not use some of the juiciest stuff about Patton. Rather, all I wanted was to use just enough of that type of information to shine a little light on his particular level of corruption, abuse of power and negligence.
News accounts will break shortly about his present mistress but, at the moment, there is no interesting abuse of power information associated with that story. So, there was no constructive reason for it to be related. As the story goes, though, this new babe is a bit miffed at Patton right now -- could be she didn't get as much pay-back as the last one.
I imagine his wife was a bit upset, too, when she learned of yet another infidelity in the background. I hope the Governor has a faithful dog, because he definitely has women problems!
Anyway, if we want to talk about really significant corruption in office, someone should bring up those 2,000 over-paid patronage positions the Governor appointed. The total bill to the Kentucky taxpayer is about one-hundred-million bucks a year and most of them never show up for work. They do, however, kick back a portion of their "wages" to political campaigns of Democratic candidates. But, again, that is not unique to just this governor. It is part of the criminal institution known as the Kentucky Democratic Party.
All this, and we didn't even get into their vote fraud schemes yet -- of which Patton was a major participant. . . . . .
So much material. So little time. :-)
So, OK, this is how politics works and the guy's a competent politician; how come you want to remove him?
I agree, of course -- but maybe for more devious reasons.
If the hearings started right away, Republicans would be a shoe-in to keep the Senate and may well capture the House, too. Wouldn't that be a real historical hoot!
It appears that, next year, baring any unforeseen major scandals or problems, Kentucky will elect the first Republican governor in well over 20 years. Which means, Kentucky could very well go from solid Democratic to solid Republican within just five short years!
So, two bits says that some well positioned Senators we know are probably wondering if they really want to toss Patton out at this time or not. Personally, I think they should -- even though the Lt. Gov. is an incompetent fool. But, I can also make a good case for leaving a very damaged lame-duck governor in office for another year. After all, Republican candidates wouldn't even have to mention the corruption of the Democrats, just smile and snicker a little. If I were running a campaign for the Republican candidate, it would be helpful to keep Patton in office for a couple rather significant reasons:
First, the Executive Branch Ethics Commission will start an investigation in a month or two and that information will turn up a number of interesting facts. Of course, they will also take their good old time about it and probably run out the term of Patton's office. But, that is good for Republicans. Because, it means that the information will play in the news for months to come.
Second: This will leave the Lt. Governor looking like his incompetent self and would also not allow any other Democrats with their eye on the governorship to come off looking like stars in the media. The Attorney General comes to mind here. He needs to stay muzzled.
I guess my point is, while we know that Patton should be removed from office immediately, I can also see politically useful reasons for letting his disgraced carcass dangle in that position for yet another year. His last public use would be to help the Republicans capture the whole of the government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky -- for the first time in history.
Such could very well be the legacy of Paul Patton.
There's good and bad in everything, eh?
She left Frankfort and went to Pikeville right away (after he finally confessed to her and the family) - and it is reported that she feels totally betrayed and humiliated by her husband.
I do believe that there is a LOT more to come on this.
Stay tuned.
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