Northup releases education & health initiative, News Enterprise slams Fletcher ad.
Up until now, the Northup/Hoover ticket has been taken to task for not releasing any policy ideas, relying instead on the message that Fletcher cannot win. Well, in response to the criticisms or maybe proceeding according to pre-established plans, the ticket has released its education and health plans for Kentucky's future. The education plan calls for Improving math and science education; Dealing with failing schools; Changing our testing; Having schools reevaluate the way they handle students with special needs; Studying teacher pay and benefits; Teaching All non-English-speaking students English; and explaining why she needs to be the Governor doing these things. On health care: Making private insurance more available, affordable and flexible (Catastrophic Coverage, Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), Tax incentives to expand opportunity, Fairness and transparency, Medical malpractice reform); Cut costs in public health systems and make them look more like the private sector (Medicaid:
Using Private Managed Care Plans); Expanding Long Term Care Insurance to Reduce Medicaid’s Cost; Community health centers; Drug re-importation; and, Explaining why she needs to be the Governor doing these things.
The Northup ticket also pointed out that the Elizabethtown News Enterprise has slammed Fletcher's campaign ad. Here are excerpts: Have you seen Gov. Ernie Fletcher’s first re-election campaign TV commercial, the one where he tries to compare the investigation of his administration’s partisan personnel practices to being bullied by schoolyard tough guys? ... That could be pretty persuasive stuff. If there were any truth to it.
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Once voters have viewed the first commercial, surely a prelude of themes to follow, and compared them to the facts that bear the signatures of the governor and his lawyers and the findings of the grand jurors, they will be able to decide for themselves which is fact and which is fiction.
Using Private Managed Care Plans); Expanding Long Term Care Insurance to Reduce Medicaid’s Cost; Community health centers; Drug re-importation; and, Explaining why she needs to be the Governor doing these things.
The Northup ticket also pointed out that the Elizabethtown News Enterprise has slammed Fletcher's campaign ad. Here are excerpts: Have you seen Gov. Ernie Fletcher’s first re-election campaign TV commercial, the one where he tries to compare the investigation of his administration’s partisan personnel practices to being bullied by schoolyard tough guys? ... That could be pretty persuasive stuff. If there were any truth to it.
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Once voters have viewed the first commercial, surely a prelude of themes to follow, and compared them to the facts that bear the signatures of the governor and his lawyers and the findings of the grand jurors, they will be able to decide for themselves which is fact and which is fiction.
Labels: Kentucky politics, Public Service, Republicanism
posted by KYJurisDoctor at 6:05 PM
6 Comments:
Erwin Roberts determined that the allegations against Fletcher was fiction. I guess we can't take the word of a former assistant U.S. Attorney from Louisville.
The first part of your statement is loosely true and Erwin's statements against Fletcher on the "fiction" aspect of the merit inquiry are puzzling!
I agree with Ronnie Ellis when he says, "I love college basketball, especially UK basketball, but I wonder what it says about my state when a coach with a 76 percent winning record decides he’s had enough of fans’ unrealistic demands and what it says when the public has higher expectations for its basketball coaches than its political leaders.
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If only Kentucky voters were as demanding of their political leaders as they are of their basketball coaches, state government might get it right 76 percent of the time.
Derek L. Combs
I AGREE, but what does it have to do with the Post? LOL.
All that I am trying to say is that (as Ellis so eloquently put it) we should pay more attention to our State Goverment, the particular individuals--actions--and motives--all elected officials and their ultimate performance in those arena's. If we paid more attention to politics than we do to Basketball...we would have a much better state, a much friendlier business environment, and we would only elect the best people to office as well as attract the best people to office. Unfortunately (as the WalGreens Commercials state) we don't live anywhere near PERFECT...and sadly we care more about sports than we do our own state government.
That is what I was trying to say. It may not have fit perfectly with the other posts or the story at large...but I think it was still a point and a thought worth mentioning again.
Derek L. Combs
Got ya. Thanks.
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