Kudos to the Paul Hackett for his well fought war in Ohio's 2nd District. The Republican's won this fight, but hopefyll it will just be a Pyrric victory.

Now on to Governor Fletcher. That boy keeps diggin' his hole deeper and deeper. Druen got hit with 20 more felony indictments today for messing with evidence. He's already been accused of tampering with witnesses. Now Mark Hebert at WHAS reports Fletcher's talking of pardoning people (no one's been convicted yet) and the House has said they'll impeach him if he does. This certainly makes for an entertaining summer and Fancy Farm should be a show this weekend. Here's a Herald Leader Story

Grand jury indicts former official on additional felony charges

HERALD-LEADER FRANKFORT BUREAU


FRANKFORT -- The special grand jury that’s investigating allegations of improper state hiring practices indicted former Transportation Cabinet official Dan Druen on 20 felony charges of tampering with evidence and another felony charge of tampering with a witness.

Also, Tim Hazlette, who oversees the Transportation Cabinet personnel office, was charged today with a misdemeanor for criminal conspiracy.

Druen became the first official to be charged with a felony last month when the grand jury indicted him for tampering with a witness. It was in relation to Cheryl Casey, his former secretary.

Casey testified before the grand jury today. And according to this latest indictment, Druen “knowingly made false statements” to Casey on July 19.

It remains unclear what the circumstances were that led to the 20 additional counts of tampering with evidence.

Druen had been commissioner of administrative services at the Transportation Cabinet. In that position, he was custodian of all the cabinet’s records.

Druen was forced to resign two weeks ago — on the same day he was indicted for the first felony. Gov. Ernie Fletcher said he asked for Druen’s resignation because of inappropriate e-mails that Druen had sent in relation to a so-called “hit list.” The list included the names of 10 merit employees in the cabinet along with notes about their political ties and recommendations that they should be fired or transferred.

By law, merit employees cannot be hired or fired only for political reasons.

The indictment of Hazlette, his first, said Hazlette conspired to violate the merit employment laws with Druen and two other officials who have been previously charged: Basil Turbyfill, who heads the governor’s office of personnel and efficiency, and Bob Wilson, the deputy personnel cabinet secretary.

In all, nine former or current Fletcher administration officials have been indicted.

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This thing keeps getting uglier and uglier all the time. Fletcher's hot right now and he has every right to be because his people have screwed this up and if things continue, Fletcher's going down with his ship. Eventually, things are going to lead back to his office because if they don't he's more inept that people take him for. This is going to get deeper and the Republicans, in their efforts to clean the house to their liking are having their house cleaned for them By Greg Stumbo.

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