The Laboratories of Democracy Are Cooking Up Crazy All the Time
It can't be emphasized more strongly. The laboratories of democracy keep cooking even after our semi-regular weekly survey concludes. For example, in Kentucky, the lieutenant governor is suing the governor, which is a thing that now happens, or so says the Louisville Courier-Journal.
The 12-page lawsuit, filed in Franklin Circuit Court, argues the Bevin administration illegally dismissed [Jeneane] Hampton's chief of staff, Steve Knipper, in late January and her deputy chief of staff, Adrienne Southworth, in late May...
"I think the world of her as a person. Needless to say, we have a difference of perspective on certain things," Bevin, who was in Louisville for the state fair, told the Courier Journal later Thursday. "But I think the world of her personally, she's a friend and she's someone I have tremendous respect for." Bevin declined to talk about Hampton's lawsuit specifically when asked by reporters, but he did dispute the lieutenant governor's recent assertion the two hadn't talked about the controversy. "Look, I did not talk to him," Hampton told the Lexington Herald Leader last week. "I’ve never talked with him about the dismissals. My staff has not been treated right, and I stand by my staff.”
It is here where we note that Bevin is the least popular governor in America, and that his approval ratings are down there with those enjoyed by cholera and Mitch McConnell. And here's a guy from Tennessee who remembers being born. Thanks again to the indefatigable Tennessee Holler. I never want to hear the phrase, "a sensation of compression and advancement" in any context ever again.
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