Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher fits the republican mold to a "T"

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Illegal Patronage Probe Snares Ky. Gov.

FRANKFORT, Ky. - For the past few months, Republican Gov. Ernie Fletcher has been doing just about everything he can to fend off a criminal investigation into alleged political hiring-and-firing by his administration. But the investigation has steamed on, and appears to be getting closer to Fletcher himself.

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Prosecutors have accused Fletcher's administration of handing out jobs on the basis of political affiliation, in violation of a 1960 Kentucky civil service law.

At first, the governor said mistakes may have been made in hiring. But then he adopted an attack strategy, dismissing the investigation as a political witch hunt conducted by an attorney general intent on winning Fletcher's job.

Then, as the indictments crept closer to Fletcher, the governor and his lawyers criticized the civil service law as antiquated and vague, attacked the grand jury as a pawn of prosecutors, and dismissed the crimes alleged — most of them misdemeanors punishable by a year or less in jail — as tantamount to fishing out of season.

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I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political `gotcha,' paralyzing our ability to serve you, the people of Kentucky," Fletcher, a 52-year-old former congressman and Kentucky's first Republican governor in three decades, said in a televised, statewide address from the Capitol Rotunda.

(One of those pardoned was later indicted again. And the question of whether the governor can pardon people before they have even been charged is a matter of legal dispute.)

Read the entire article here (Too incredible to believe):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/kentucky_governor;_ylt=AthK.qnurOei8z6goFiRKAxsaMYA;_ylu=X3oDMTA5bGVna3NhBHNlYwNzc3JlbA--

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1. This is a great place to keep up with the old Ky. politics.

http://www.bluegrassreport.org/