Kentucky’s GOP legislature has a racism problem
Look at the bills that passed, and the ones that didn’t. Then listen to the comments on the floor. It’s clear what is driving some of this year’s GOP legislation.
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Look at the bills that passed, and the ones that didn’t. Then listen to the comments on the floor. It’s clear what is driving some of this year’s GOP legislation.
The language of our founding documents seems to include everyone in the word “citizens.” And yet it took long 133 years for women to gain their deserved rights as citizens.
First it was Marjorie Taylor Green calling for Johnson’s head. Now our own Thomas Massie has joined her. What is he thinking?
As noted by Linda Blackford, “we the people” were the biggest winners in the HB 509 open-records saga. But who was the biggest loser?
Did the General Assembly use its resources to make a difference in the lives of everyday Kentuckians?
Beau of the Fifth Column certainly has. And he lays it out.
All who fought to protect our open records laws should celebrate our shared victory. But then, we should work together to get ready for the next attack.
The Know-Nothings have returned with their goal of Make America White Again – except this time, the cost is going to be in the billions.
White grievance, white supremacy animated this session of the General Assembly
The Safer Kentucky Act was just an act. The goal was never to make you safer. The goal was simply to keep themselves in power so they can come back and do nothing again next year.
So you’re thinking of voting for Robert F. Kennedy Jr as a way to say “I don’t like either one”? Read on.
HB 509 is STILL a threat to transparency. Gov. Beshear, don’t defend it – VETO it.
“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them” ― Aldous Huxley
Hey Comer, Guthrie, Massie, Barr, Rogers. Hey Repubs in the KY House and Senate. Hey RPK. Simple question: You okay with this?
Lawmakers who know so little about the requirements of the open records law, much less it’s necessity and value — or who are willing to justify needless and destructive revision of the law with false claims and misrepresentations — cannot be entrusted with the future of the law.
They got their constitutional amendment on the ballot, so they won the first round. Will we let them win in November?