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Column: Beware the virus of mistrust
WAVE 3 ^ | 5/8/2020 | Jim Waters

Posted on 05/09/2020 10:48:47 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Gov. Andy Beshear missed a golden opportunity to demonstrate that he’s personally walking the COVID-19 walk as well as talking the talk concerning the need for Kentuckians to hunker down at home and the commonwealth to shut down its economy with the exception of what he deems “essential” services.

Instead of responding immediately to an open-records request by the Bluegrass Institute related to determining whether the staff at Beshear’s own home abides by the same suffocating COVID-19 protocols he’s demanding from his fellow Kentuckians, the administration took 12 days to finally provide the information.

Not only did the delayed response violate Kentucky’s open records and meetings laws which, during normal times, requires public officials respond within three days – a deadline the General Assembly extended to 10 days this year due to the pandemic – but the information, once received, reveals the Governor’s Mansion isn’t exactly the shining example of abiding by the same rules Beshear insists everyone else follow.

Mansion records show the Beshear family is being served by several employees in the facility, including housekeepers, chefs, maintenance workers and even a butler.

The administration’s delayed response shows it wasn’t just a simple oversight, which would be understandable considering the current environment, but rather an attempt to spin what suffering business owners and out-of-work Kentuckians view as inconsistent and which erodes the governor’s message about the true seriousness of this virus as well as overall trust in government.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: andybeshear; beshear; coronavirus; covid19; kentucky; openrecords; shutdown

1 posted on 05/09/2020 10:48:47 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

Typical loser scum demoncrap

The beauty thing is the amount of media now

When democrats lie. There’s TAPE to confront them with

Then they stammer


2 posted on 05/09/2020 10:55:11 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv mint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Doesn’t everyone have a butler? Mine is essential.


3 posted on 05/09/2020 11:05:54 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Best left handed banjo picker on my entire block)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Are all Democrats hypocrites or just the ones we know about? Would be laughable if they didn’t wield such an iron fist over the rest of us.


4 posted on 05/10/2020 4:34:04 AM PDT by LateBoomer
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Bump


5 posted on 05/10/2020 5:30:41 AM PDT by foreverfree
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To: Graybeard58

And not one, but two private chefs?


6 posted on 05/10/2020 12:28:47 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

The prissy subversive daddy’s boy.


7 posted on 05/11/2020 7:50:07 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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