Kentucky scandal in new flavor: BlackBerry

[Debau2005]

"Every state's citizens brag that their politics are more low-down than anybody else's, but few get rhapsodic about it. Kentuckians do."

I love Republicans, hours of fun! haha Did they not read their IT policy that states all email could be monitored? Blackberry Jam - too funny

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/1205/21natfletcher.html

[Ian David]

1. Strange story

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Fletcher called the investigation by the Democratic attorney general a partisan witch hunt and denies knowingly breaking any hiring laws.

"The patronage system was tuned up and well oiled over the last generation and a half," Hall said. "{Democrats} knew exactly what they were doing. They were smart enough not to use e-mail. We weren't."

Added Oscar Hornsby, a former "patronage man" for four Democratic governors: "It's just a situation like a kid with a new toy. The Democratic Party developed the system, and these folks come in after 30 years and they have a hard time with it. It's involved, unless you live with it every day. They took shortcuts and got their hand caught in the cookie jar."

The Governor's Mansion opened for Republicans when two-term Democrat Paul Patton got his own hand caught in a cookie jar: He admitted to having an affair with a nursing home operator who sued him for sexual harassment. Before leaving office, Patton further outraged Kentuckians when he pardoned his chief of staff and three others charged with breaking election laws.

The 53-year-old Fletcher – a former fighter pilot, family doctor and lay minister plucked to run by Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, the state's GOP don — campaigned on the promise of a new, scandal-free day in Frankfort.

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http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/1205/21natfletcher.html

[Roland99]

2. Scandal-free my ass. Fletcher's a crook like the rest of them

Setup office space in the Governor's mansion for GOP leaders.

And the latest being all the pre-emptive pardons he issued for people in the Transportation Cabinet that cut loose Democrats and hired in Republicans instead of using merit-based hiring practices.

Crooks...one and all.