UPDATED with video: Carroll asks Pence to resign. Should Pence listen?
Former Gov. and now Democratic Senator from Franklin Co. (Frankfort and area), Julian Carroll, has called on Lt. Governor Steve Pence to resign his position for "disloyalty to the Gov." and for no longer being the Lt. Governor". View the video. The question is: should Steve Pence even bother listening or should he insist, just as he has, that he has a mandate of 4 years from voters which he intends to fulfill" (or something like that) regardless of his SOURED relationship with the Gov.? Before you answer, you have to consider whether the source for the "resign" call being from a Democrat makes any difference, whether disloyalty to the Gov. is a CONSTITUTIONAL pre-requisite for the office of second in command (Wing Man) and whether Steve is No longer a holder of the Lt. Governor position and is NOW unnecessarily "costing the taxpayers money".
Labels: Democratism, Kentucky politics, Public Service, Republicanism
posted by KYJurisDoctor at 7:14 PM
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Another question is: whether or not Sen. Carroll's affiliation with the Democratic Party makes his call for Pence's resignation politically suspicious. Here's C-J's article on it.
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Who was Brutus?
Poor Gov. Ernie Fletcher; he can't even get his historical analogies right.
When Lt. Gov. Steve Pence endorsed Republican candidate Anne Northup, a Fletcher campaign spokesman called Pence a "Brutus."
This was a reference to Marcus Junius Brutus, the Roman senator who plotted against and helped kill Julius Caesar. It is often considered an act of treachery because Caesar was Brutus' protector and political mentor.
What Fletcher seems to have forgotten was that Caesar was killed because he had ended the Roman Republic and had become a tyrant.
Brutus' method, stabbing his political opponent, was bad, and the result, a bloody civil war, was worse. But the fact was that Caesar had destroyed Rome's democracy, and Brutus was trying to save it.
While Brutus is often a symbol of betrayal, he is more commonly considered a hero for ending Caesar's reign. In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Mark Antony calls Brutus "the noblest Roman of them all."
This is just another unfortunate example of how Fletcher and his administration speak and act without thinking or doing any research.
Fletcher certainly isn't a tyrant, but he is a fool.
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