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This page was last updated: February 22, 2012
Other steps could have been taken buy the city commission before cutting the longevity pay of the police and the payscale of our firefighters these past few years. These are our protectors, our first line of defense.
Most citizens feel police and fire are the priory not planning & zoning and the cemetery.
The corruption business model
The best spin you can put on political corruption is that it's something people fall into, starting out relatively innocently and eventually getting in so deep they don't know how to get out.
But the revelations in the recent trial and conviction of eight Clay County defendants strip even that fantasy away.
This was a serious business operation, well planned and run to give a substantial return on investment.
It involved: market research.....
Published on 2010-04-08, Page A10, Lexington Herald-Leader (KY)
The Mayor recommends persons for the city Planning & Zoning boards and the City Commissioners vote on the recommendations of the mayor.
The incidents mentioned in the Jessamine Journal article linked below are a good example of the corruption business model as outlined in the following link: "Nicholasville Mafia" The reappointment of two of the planning commission members on 12/12/11 is really questionable considering the alleged ethics violations against them.
Click here to see December 12th City of Nicholasville Meeting Video
Click here to go to the Jessamine Republican Party "GOP" Webpage!
Thousands could have been saved in interest and attorney fees if they had just paid the firefighters when this unfunded mandate was handed down.
Transparency
Special called meetings and workshop meetings should be televised; these meetings are when the serious things are in the works and then voted on oftentimes during the special meetings. The only meetings televised at this time are the regular meetings. Yes, many things are voted on during regular meetings, too. However, history shows controversial things are done in special meetings. County meetings are never televised.
1-30-12 Another Letter to an Ethics Committee member
KENTUCKY FILING DEADLINES
Filing Deadline (Major Parties): January 2012
Filing Deadline (Third Parties & Independents): August 2012
Filing Deadline (Write-In Candidates): October 2012
Primary: May 22, 2012
Realtor Wesley Pike has filed to run for city commissioner in 2012.
Kentucky lawmakers bypass Attorney General Conway, join lawsuit against Obama’s federal healthcare fiasco
(FRANKFORT, Ky.) – Fifty-nine Kentucky lawmakers joined the fight against the Obama administration’s so-called Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act by signing an amicus brief that targets the law’s individual mandate clause. Thirty-six state representatives and 23 senators joined 332 lawmakers nationwide as co-signers of the brief. These policymakers hail from states like Kentucky that have refused to join the 27 states that have filed a lawsuit to contest the constitutionality of the federal legislation – with a particular concern about the law’s individual mandate requirement. “We support every attempt to halt this unparalleled and unconstitutional encroachment upon our state sovereignty and individual freedoms,” said Jim Waters, interim president of the Bluegrass Institute, Kentucky’s free-market think tank. “If the federal government gets control over the most private of decisions – those involving our own health and bodies – what will it not have jurisdiction over?”
State Rep. Tim Moore, R-Elizabethtown, who coordinated the effort in the commonwealth, released a statement announcing the move while criticizing Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway for refusing to “join the growing chorus of states bringing suit before the Supreme Court to contest the Constitutionality of the sweeping and unprecedented legislation known as ‘Obamacare.’”
The Cato Institute sponsored this brief for legislators across the nation from states that have not joined the lawsuit known as Department of Health and Human Services, et al., vs. States of Florida, et al. The State Policy Network, of which the Bluegrass Institute is a member, helped facilitate the project.
Here’s some more from the statement:“The Senators and Representatives who joined this Amicus Brief are glad to stand with Republican, Democratic, and Independent legislators from states all across the Union against this encroachment upon individual freedoms and states’ sovereignty. While these Kentucky legislators remain committed to promoting the public welfare and the health of all of our citizens, we will not countenance the usurpation of Constitutional authority or the flaunting of Constitutional limits on Government power.
“America remains free because our Founders recognized the proper limits of Government authority. They established clear boundaries by specifically enumerating the powers entrusted to Government. The United States Constitution is the document every legislator—state and federal—swears an oath to uphold.”
SOME OF THESE NEWS ITEMS ARE JESSAMINE JOURNAL NEWS LINKS!
The corruption business model
The best spin you can put on political corruption is that it's something people fall into, starting out relatively innocently and eventually getting in so deep they don't know how to get out.
Published on 2010-04-08, Page A10, Lexington Herald-Leader (KY)
