SHE WON'T GO!
This is a good one.
Steve Beshear’s former Lt. Governor, Mr. Dan Mongiardo, came out hard today against the State House and Senate redistricting maps:
The redistricting plans recently passed by the General Assembly and signed by the Governor was an exercise in hyper-partisanship that disenfranchises hundreds of thousands of citizens and should be overturned. It is this type of unnecessarily divisive partisan politics that further weakens our political system’s ability to solve the difficult problems confronting our state and nation.”
Mongiardo is throwing his support behind an independent commission:
“After such a raw display of rank partisanship, it is time the people of Kentucky assign the responsibility for redistricting to an independent commission that puts the interest of the citizens of this Commonwealth before the self-serving interests of the politicians or either political party.”
He goes on to blast David Williams — calling him “petty and vindictive” — and one of Fayette County’s other Senators, Republican Alice Forgy Kerr:
“For Senator Alice Forgy Kerr to place her loyalty to David Williams above her loyalty to the people of Fayette County and vote to eliminate the only other state senator from Fayette County is shameful. The fact that she didn’t have the courage to publicly and openly cast her ‘yea’ vote at the time is even more shameful. Senator Kerr’s decision to eliminate the only state senator representing Lexington’s downtown core and the UK campus area is mystifying. Her constituents, those citizens living in Lexington’s suburbs, are inextricably linked to the success of Lexington’s downtown and the University of Kentucky.”
Full press release after the jump…
THE DAILY YONDER
