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Location: New Albany, Indiana (Greater Louisville)
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Could be individual matchups or Bevin becoming unpopular. 4 is a small sample size, November will tell us more. Bevin has certainly come out swinging from day 1, proposing 10% budget cuts to universities, large cuts to transportation, going hard after Planned Parenthood, dismantling the state health exchange and throwing people onto the federal system, etc. I don't ever remember a Kentucky governor being so controversial a couple months in to their first term. I would've preferred a moderate GOP person like a John Kasich. Kentucky does have a budget problem that needs to be addressed but quick deep cuts are usually not the way to go. Compare the states run by moderate GOP leaders like Indiana and Ohio vs states run by GOP ideologues like Kansas and Louisiana and tell me who's doing better.
I do agree that something does need to be done for the state retirement systems, but he's going a little overboard. I retired from the state in '08. My last raise, 1.5%, was in 2010.
Good news. If Bevin's first few months are a portent of things to come, it's gonna get ugly! This might lessen some of his damage.
True, but the pendulum never swings all the way back. Republicans know this. Whenever one of their crazed ideologues gets into office and drags a state back into the 18th Century, and a Democrat follows up and fixes some of the damage, they're never able to clean it all up. You can't reverse every single change they've made, and every time the cycle is repeated some parts of the center are permanently shifted a little more to the right.
True, but the pendulum never swings all the way back. Republicans know this. Whenever one of their crazed ideologues gets into office and drags a state back into the 18th Century, and a Democrat follows up and fixes some of the damage, they're never able to clean it all up. You can't reverse every single change they've made, and every time the cycle is repeated some parts of the center are permanently shifted a little more to the right.
True, but the pendulum never swings all the way back. Republicans know this. Whenever one of their crazed ideologues gets into office and drags a state back into the 18th Century, and a Democrat follows up and fixes some of the damage, they're never able to clean it all up. You can't reverse every single change they've made, and every time the cycle is repeated some parts of the center are permanently shifted a little more to the right.
Absolutely. I agree strongly also.
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