[HangnJudge]

Something is very wrong in Kentucky

Tennessee and Kentucky have a long common border, very similar demographics, topology, and heritage and yet Tennessee has very stable US state governmental financial statistics, and Kentucky has one of the worst. It has become the Illinois of the South.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/fiscal-stability

And this has been true in TN under
both Democratic and Republican leadership, consistently

[libertylover]

Something is very wrong in Kentucky

A lot of it has to do with Kentucky having Democrat governors for 92 of the last 100 years (something like that).

Before Beshear we had a Republican Governor, Matt Bevin, who tried to fix Kentucky's very broken pension system but that ticked off the teachers who led the way for Beshear to win by 4,000 votes.