May 2022 – All Eyes on Kentucky

Justice for Omari Cryer

By DerbyRose May 25, 2022Issues, Radicalized Republicans

Today, President Biden signed a long-overdue Executive Order on policing. Unfortunately, it came five days too late to protect Omari Cryer, the 25-year old Black man who was gunned down by US Marshals in Louisville, Kentucky's West End Friday morning. The night before, VICE News aired a damning expose about the corruption, theft and cover-ups taking place within the Louisville Metro Police Department, including new insight into what happened the night Breonna Taylor was murdered, and more unanswered questions. It's been a busy news cycle since we learned the results of our local primary races last Tuesday, which I recap…

Justice for Breonna Taylor

By DerbyRose May 19, 2022Issues

Cover photo is from Aaliyah's Lost Mind: A no-knock situation, available on Amazon. UPDATE: The morning after I made post, following the most damning of VICE's two-part series aired, US Marshals shot and killed a Black man in the back and left his dead body laying in an alley in the hot sun, with no answers for family members, for hours. A similar "power play" was used on our community two years prior when the National Guard was brought in during our peaceful protests and one of them shot and killed local business owner David McAtee, and is too eerily…

KY Primary: Win Some – Lose Some

By DerbyRose May 17, 2022Dark-Money Dems, McGarvey, Scott

Favorite son Charles Booker will be taking on Rand Paul in the November 8 election. Charles should have won in 2020 to run against McConnell, but we took our eyes off Kentucky before the primary was over and he lost. Booker had more voters turn out than Amy McGrath in the 2020 primary, but due to voter suppression and disenfranchisement (we documented it), he didn't have enough votes at the end of the day. Milquetoast McGrath took on Mitch in the General, only to lose badly. I still believe Charles would have won the General if we'd have given him…

Happy Mother’s Day

By DerbyRose May 8, 2022Dark-Money Dems, McGarvey, Scott1 Comment

There's not much we can say to draw more attention to how tone-deaf Congressman John Yarmuth's endorsement of another mediocre white man to "protect the seat," than to hear it straight from his own mouth. I can't remember if I shared this video clip in my last post, but even if I did, it's worth repeating until everyone in Louisville has had a chance to watch it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TunFEJSNHAc&feature=youtu.be Instead of recognizing that no one can represent voices of those missing from the tables and back rooms, from Washington DC to Louisville, KY, better than a proven progressive mother like Attica…