Kentucky: Greg Stumbo

FRANKFORT -- The state legislature has created a new subcommittee on Kentucky waterways which will focus on limiting water pollution, water tourism and other water-related issues.

The Subcommittee on Kentucky Waterways will meet for the first time later this summer and is expected not to cost taxpayers any additional money, state officials said.

The joint Senate and House subcommittee will be chaired by Rep. Will Coursey, D-Benton, and Sen. Bob Leeper, I-Paducah. Coursey pushed House Speaker Greg Stumbo, D-Prestonsburg, to create the subcommittee. Stumbo and Senate President David Williams, R-Burkesville, authorized the committee last month.

Coursey, in a press release, said Kentucky ranks only second to Alaska in miles of waterways.

Some of the topics the subcommittee will look at include ways to limit water pollution, homeland-security measures at river ports, adventure tourism and increasing barge traffic.

-- Beth Musgrave

No, I'm not shocked either, but here's a nice summary from the Hairy Liberal.

I wish Greg Stumbo would run against him instead of running in the primary against Beshear in 2011 (oops! did I let that one slip?)

Wow. Kim Geveden has lost his mind. Check it out:
Conway kicked off his campaign at a rally in Louisville this afternoon, and appeared alongside some of the state party’s leading figures: Reps. Ben Chandler, John Yarmuth, state Auditor Crit Luallen, and state House Speaker Greg Stumbo. (Mongiardo notably received an endorsement from the state's Democratic governor, Steve Beshear.)

But in an interview with POLITICO, Mongiardo’s consultant Kim Geveden dismissed the endorsements as coming from a bunch of effete elitists.

“They’re all buddies, they’re good friends. Daniel doesn’t run in their social circle,” Geveden said. “Daniel is a sportsman, a hunter and a fisherman… Daniel doesn’t play golf, he’s not the part of that social crowd, he never has been, and he never will be.

Wow. I think somebody must have jumped the gun, here. Everybody was supposed to keep the big "surprises" for Monday, but I guess Greg Stumbo's ego got the best of him (oh, and that never happens, does it?).

Anyway, Greg is the first of many to endorse Jack quickly. And I mean MANY.

This is going to be a really rough week for Dan Mongiardo.

Embarrassing.

Grab the popcorn.