Kentucky: Jack Conway

Excellent news this morning, as 4 of the corrupt thieves who looted us at the Lexington Airport have been indicted:
Former Blue Grass Airport executive director Michael A. Gobb and three of his managers were indicted on felony theft charges Tuesday. The charges stem from hundreds of thousands of dollars in questionable expenses the four men billed to the airport.

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Gobb faces nine theft charges. Also charged were John Rhodes, the former director of administration and finance, with six charges; John Coon, the airport's former director of operations, and John P. Slone, who was director of planning and development, with one each. The airport board forced the four men to resign last winter.

I'll be in Lexington tomorrow afternoon at the big KDP rally featuring Steve Beshear, Dan Mongiardo, Jack Conway, Ben Chandler and John Yarmuth.
It starts at 4:00, and should be awkward as hell, what with Dan Mongiardo touting the endorsement of the "SOB" "whore" "worst KY Governor ever" Steve Beshear.
If the wi-fi is working, come here for the live snark. If not, check out the B&P twitterfeed here.

It appears that half of the entire campaign strategy for Dan Mongiardo this summer has been trying to blow up Jack Conway's use of the word hell and bitch (Vapors!). From some typical campaign emails:
"It's clear that Jack Conway's actions at Fancy Farm are still resonating with Kentuckians and further proof that he is out of touch with Kentucky values."and...
"Jack's outburst at Fancy Farm calls into question his judgment, but ultimately we will be judged on the positions we take and the values we stand up for."Well, with the end of this fundraising quarter Wednesday, do you want to take a guess what the Vegas odds are for this line to show up again in his fundraising pitch tomorrow?

I'd say the odds of CentrePointe getting built are better.

Better come up with a new campaign strategy, Dan...

Of course.

No sooner do I finish heaping praise on Jack Conway for finally doing something aggressive and populist-y than he goes and proves one of my more significant fears 100% correct. Jake and Rick Redding have all the info you need to know on the Cordish opinion, but if you read them both, you see the hell of this opinion: it's playing to both crowds. Like the Mayor, want to protect him (perhaps because he was an early endorser for your Senate campaign)? Emphasize that nothing illegal happened. Upset over what was pretty clearly government waste and giveaway at a time that the city has nothing to spare? Emphasize that it was morally wrong.