Fletchers follies all pleaded not guilty in their arraignments today and Senate President David Williams, R-Burkesville, was there to cheer them on, calling the event a political farce and a media circus.

David Williams wouldn't know anything about political farces at all. He bares no credit in the fiasco that's given Louisville's 37th district no representation because the candidate the Republicans picked was ineligible to run. The sad thing is they won't have representation for the upcoming turn either. It's pretty sad really.

But back to the topic at hand. The charges for the defendants center around merit law violations. I might add Fletcher wants to change the merit system so they can bring an even more diverse cronyism system into the state of Kentucky and they can award all the jobs to political supporters.

Dick Murgatroyd, Fletcher's deputy chief of staff, transportation dude Bill Nighbert, dept. trans. dude, Jim Adams, Dan Druen, the cabinet's admin. serv. comm. and Cory Meadows, the exec. dir. of the trans. enhancement program all have been indicted and pleaded not guilty.

Murg was charged on 19 misdemeanor counts of conspiracy, political discrimination and violating the rights of state merit employees.

When Ernie Fletcher came into office, he promised to clean up waste, fraud and abuse in Frankfort. You don't do that but working the same system that was there before in your favor. That's just more of the same. It's becoming painfully clear that Fletcher obviously had no intention of cleaing it up, they just wanted to integrate the Republican into the government so they could maintain control. I got news for you, if this is the way it's going to happen, it'll be another 30 years before they win the Frankfort again.

I'm not a fan of AG Stumbo, but indictments aren't handed out by grand juries if there's not some substance to the charges. There has to be something there. The problem is if all these folks are convicted, they can't hold a job with the state for quite some time. I hope for the state of Kentucky, non of this is true but I feel in my gut that it is. It makes Kentucky look bad, just like the Patton scandal made us look bad and just like Boptrot made us look bad. According to Mark Nickolas blog, even Mitch McConnell is looking for someone to replace Ernie in 2007.

One other thing Ernie and his follies seem to have missed. Frankfort isn't Washington and it doesn't work that way. They need to learn that because really, it's probably already too late.

There are some great stories on the matter in both the Herald Leader and the Courier Journal. I've put links to them here.

Not Guilty

Indictment

AP-Sniping

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