Archive for the 'Jay McChord'

Heckuva job, Scottie! Also, did anyone else catch Lexington Councilman Jay McChord trying to play Scott Walker at the work session yesterday? Funny stuff…

We’ve done two posts in the past 5 days looking at the election results by precinct in Lexington. Last Friday, we looked at Jim Gray’s incredible rise after the primary, as he was able to dominate not just on the north side, but south of New Circle Road, as well. Yesterday, we found that Jim Gray dominated precincts that voted for either Jack Conway or Ben Chandler, and only narrowly lost precincts that went for both Rand Paul and Andy Barr. Today, we’re going to look at the...
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Lexington not only has a wonderful new mayor, but check out how good the new council looks. If things went the wrong way Tuesday night, Lexington could have had 4 years of Newberry as mayor and Chuck Ellinger as vice mayor. *shudder* Instead, we have Jim Gray as mayor and Linda Gorton as vice mayor (who should be great). Also, Bill Farmer Jr. replaces Cheryl Feigel in the 5th. Farmer is a bit of a wild card, but I’m pretty confident that he’ll be an improvement. Meanwhile KC...
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On the heels of Jim Newberry making completely false allegations about LFUCG council member Diane Lawless making some grand conspiracy to withhold documents in the Johnston whistleblower affair (though that is quite funny coming from you, Jim), council member/cheerleader Jay McChord tried to make more of a stink in yesterday’s council session. He repeated his claims that somebody deserves punishment because the State Audit could not find fraud, rather finding a comedy of errors in the...
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If you’ve been following the Lexington special investigation committee meetings looking into our whistle blower extravaganza, you know that LFUCG Councilman Jay McChord’s been showing off some impressive skills. The ability to stay dutifully on message, delivering choreographed moves when he’s told, and staying in the background when he’s needed to. And most of all, cheering on team Newberry shamelessly no matter what the score is, or how badly he’s getting...
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