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Here’s a recent recap of some of Mitch’s most memorable and egregious insults to the people of Kentucky and America. We give him “5 weasels” because the harm “this fucking guy” has caused can never be undone.
In 2023, Daniel Cameron set out to be Kentucky’s next governor. Kentucky was only one of three states, all red, that had a governor’s election during this off year.
LUCKILY, HE FAILED!
Kentucky attorney general Daniel Cameron lied, and lied multiple times, when he explained why a grand jury decided not to charge any police officer with a crime for killing Breonna Taylor, according to this article in Intelligencer. Not only does Cameron want to be Kentucky’s next governor, but Mitch McConnell wants him to be as well. Of course he does! Why else is there an entire “McConnell’s Scholar” program, from which Daniel graduated?
You see, Mitch hand-picked Cameron for this job and has been grooming him and funding him, perhaps even making sure his every need is met. Or, put another way, using cult-like strategies to manipulate him and others into complying with an unethical, if not illegal, plot to keep their brand of fascism in power. Here Mitch is giving Dan a hug at his wedding to a beautiful young lady rumored to be Mitch’s family member. Yeah, that’s Trump apologist James Comer in the corner.
Kentuckians know we need to be freed from this corruption and greed, but we can’t do it without the help of outsiders. We need an intervention. We don’t want anyone affiliated with any of the predators shown on this page to be in power. But because they care more about their own power than they do about doing the right thing, they are willing to lie, cheat and steal to keep it that way.
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Liberty Caucus/Election Deniers/MAGA Extremists/White Nationalists. Some would even call them Fascists.
Whatever you call them, they are dangerous. And four of them are running for each of the open seats in the largest school district in Kentucky. WE MUST STOP THEM AT ALL COSTS. #ByAnyMeansNecessary
Their campaigns have been supported by dark money special interest groups from out of state, such as the ones documented in a 42-page complaint that was filed with KREF on Sept. 9, 2022. To date, the leaders of the groups behind the right-wing candidate endorsements have been unable to be served by KREF officials.
District 1 – Charlie Bell
District 3 – Steve Ullum
District 5 – Greg Puccetti
District 6 – Misty Glin
Click above to read some of the history of these dangerous extremists and why we can’t afford to take any chances. Then click below to see who we support instead.
District 1 – Diane Porter
District 3 – G. Perry Adelmann
District 5 – Linda Duncan
District 6 – Corrie Shull
UPDATED TO ADD THAT ALL FOUR EXTREMISTS WERE DEFEATED IN JEFFERSON COUNTY. Three of the four candidates we endorsed won their elections. Neighboring counties were not so lucky. In addition, while we barely defeated the proposed Constitutional Amendments to permanently ban abortion and give more power to our state legislature, for now, Kentucky’s House and Senate, which was already a GOP Supermajority, got even redder and more MAGA infested. We must expose those who cling to the notion that Trump won the 2020 Presidential Election, for they present a clear and present danger to our freedoms to this day.
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Justice for Omari Cryer
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 here: Win Some Lose Some. Then, the VICE News two-part expose aired Wednesday and Thursday, with Thursday night’s episode being the most eye opening. Then Omari was hunted down and murdered Friday morning. More than a day later, US Marshals issued a weak ass statement. Then, yesterday, the nation went numb when 19 more innocent school children and two of their teachers were massacred by a radicalized 18-year old male who had easier access to automatic weapons than he did mental health support. As we try to process trauma coming at us from all angles, Louisville can’t afford to lose sight of Omari’s case, because there have been too many inconsistencies and unanswered questions coming out of LMPD and their “partners” even BEFORE Friday’s incident, and we demand and deserve answers. And with what many of us have suspected all along being validated by the VICE News reporter, Roberto Ferdman and the brave witnesses who shared their stories, compounded by suspicious behaviors and obviously willfully misleading statements, we deserve an investigation that is not led by members of their own incestuous crime ring. Isn’t this why we have a Civilian Review Board? Make sure they’re included in the investigation process because they may have some insight or suggestions that could benefit the case, and they can report back to the community and let us know how the investigation is progressing.
President Biden’s Executive Order has three key components related to investigating patterns and practices of police misconduct. The first component requires all federal agents to wear activated body cameras while on patrol. The second component raises standards, bans chokeholds and no-knock warrants and to emphasize de-escalation and interviewing to stop another officer. The third component of the executive order “modernizes policing” by calling for a fresh approach to recruit, train, promote and to retrain law enforcement tied to protecting public safety and public trust.
Too bad our country acted too slowly to protect Breonna Taylor from the no-knock raid that ended her life. Too bad this order came five days too late to protect Omari Cryer from being gunned down by 10 federal agents with a possible ties to dirty LMPD cops with nothing more than their word that Omari deserved to die that morning. Without body cam footage, the only witness who can tell Omari’s side of the story is dead. How convenient. Yet, Tweets from Steve Romines, local attorney, indicate LMPD brought in the US Marshals to get around the body cam requirement. Perhaps they knew the ban was coming and seized the limited window to target Omari and send a chilling message by terrorizing the Black community, essentially to “pipe down unless they want it to happen again.” Not much has changed in Louisville since the days of the Wades and the Bradens.
More will be revealed about this case and the inconsistencies between LMPD and US Marshals words and actions, as well as witness testimonies that put two and two together. In the mean time, please check out our Justice for Omari Cryer page with timely and relevant links as they happen. And please share the links and help us keep #AllEyesOnKentucky!
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Justice for Breonna Taylor
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 similar to the home invasion that led to Breonna Taylor’s death.
Read our latest blog post, Justice for Omari Cryer.
Louisville’s Greatest Pain: Unresolved Injustice
To date, no one has been held accountable for the murder of Breonna Taylor. Lies, cover-ups, delays and worse have made #JusticeForBreonna seem next to impossible. So whenever there’s a possible “break” in the case, we can’t help but hope THIS will be that piece of evidence that will be undeniable and bring LMPD’s corruption into the national spotlight.
The latest expose from VICE reporter Roberto Ferdman could be that miracle. In addition to asking what happened to the $15,000 that the armed robbers dressed as LMPD officers found at Taylor’s apartment, they are starting to peel the onion on the untold stories that we’ve been hearing and sharing about the Breonna Taylor case, that haven’t made it to the surface. At least not until now.
One of the reasons the truth doesn’t make it to the surface is because of the precision with which police departments, civic leaders, media and “charitable” elites control information. We are grateful for reporters like Roberto who help bring our truth to light and All Eyes On Kentucky, even if only for a brief time. If Kentucky can hold onto the nation’s attention until November, we might have an opportunity to take back our city, state and country, from Trump’s nationalists and white supremacists who proudly and freely tout their ignorance and terrorize our communities. Candidates like Charles Booker have a real chance at replacing traitors like Rand Paul. But the game is rigged and they know how to cleverly deceive, so please, please, don’t take anything you hear or say about Kentucky at face value.
This Could Be the Miracle We’ve Been Waiting For
The first night’s program focused mostly on sex trafficking and included details about the missing $15,000. This part of the narrative was left out, we understand, as part of the $12,000,000 settlement with Breonna’s family. The trauma they have suffered was enough, and the media and public had already tried to portray Breonna as part of a drug ring and not the Black professional woman doing the best she can to get by in a corrupt, rigged and racist society. There was nothing to be gained by allowing her character to be smeared further by even insinuating that she could have been in possession of drug money. The corrupt cops were counting on it. Keeping that MAD secret covered up has been an orchestrated act, conducted by Daniel Cameron, Mitch McConnell, local and state police departments, political candidates and their backers, the Mayor’s secret Kentucky Derby guests, I’m sure, as well as attendees at sex-and-cocaine-fueled after-parties that exist in the world of the wealthy elites. We are not invited, so we can only imagine.
Below are some excerpts:
“In 2008, Hankison was accused of letting a woman off in exchange for oral sex. The case was closed without Hankison being interviewed.”
“If you know the right people, you may not even get investigated.”
VICE NEWS, May 17, 2022
Hankison is the dirty cop who appears to have been calling a lot of the shots when it comes to working the system for personal gain, and one of the three cops involved in that late night raid.
The second part of the two-part series was even better, and already has twice as many views as the first one. #AllEyesOnKentucky!
Watch this TikTok video for a short snip.
We cannot let either of these stories disappear into the ether. Complicit defenders of structurally racist systems have a lot of money and power to control the narrative and “explain it away.” We mustn’t let them. Predators like Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul have been preying on Kentucky for far too long. Right now, we have an opportunity — and a responsibility — to take their knees of Kentuckians’ necks. Especially the necks of our Black and brown neighbors in Louisville’s West End.
Won’t you join us in this fight?
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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 a chance to debate Mitch for 6 months during a pandemic and a movement for Black lives, but let’s not get into that. That injustice didn’t deter Charles, and he handily won the primary two years later to take on Rand Paul, so soon all can be right with the world.
Well, almost. Sadly, we lost some of the key races where Black women and men were running. Shameka Parrish-Wright put up a strong showing against the favored Craig Greenberg, but in large part due to split Black votes, and the powerful network of dark money and Louisville clout (and an unfair abundance of TV and social media ads), it wasn’t enough. Another disappointment was supposedly progressive ally Morgan McGarvey‘s easy trouncing of Attica Scott.
Unfortunately, Morgan didn’t read the room and he put his knee on the neck of the woman who should have been Kentucky’s next democratic nominee for US Congress, and soon to become the first Black Congresswoman from Kentucky. We almost had one back in Eleanor Jordan. Everyone who was anyone OUTSIDE of Kentucky got behind her, but guess what. Louisville whites couldn’t get behind a Black woman then either, and she lost a seat that should have been hers. The sad thing is, I think Louisville would have gotten behind Attica, but the establishment took away that choice and that chance.
In just the past few days, a very unpopular Mitch McConnell protégé, Black Republican Attorney General, Daniel Cameron, has announced his intention to run for Governor against a very popular incumbent Democrat who saved us from a raging pandemic. Cameron was responsible for the mishandling of the grand jury for Breonna Taylor’s case and a large reason why there is still no #JusticeForBreonna to this day. This leaves the AG seat open. Morgan McGarvey is probably the only person in this state who could win that seat right now, but, unless a miracle happens, he’s in the wrong lane and due to people not knowing their place, it’s even possible BOTH seats could be lost to Republicans. I hope I’m wrong. I still think a Democrat is going to be more likely to listen to our concerns than a Republican, but hey, I thought that last time and McGarvey showed us he was easily misled. Maybe he won’t make the same mistake twice. We’ll have to hope. It will take all of us holding his feet to the fire now that we know what we know.
I was wondering when Yarmuth let McGarvey know he wasn’t planning on running again and in this article that just came out tonight, it says he had one day. McGarvey had a day’s notice to prepare his announcement plans. I dunno. He seemed more than a day’s worth of “ready” and in Yarmuth’s interview he kinda stumbled around with how he know McGarvey was interested in being notified. It still sounds sketchy but I guess we’ll never know. It’s their secret. There’s a lot of those in Kentucky politics. He takes on the winner of the Republican primary in November, which is currently too close to call.
At least Tracy Davis lives to fight another day against Mary Shaw, the judge who signed Breonna Taylor’s death warrant. But it’s a sad testament to how little white Louisville pays attention to who causes harm to the Black community. If Louisville’s progressive whites truly cared about justice, Mary Shaw should not have made it to round two in the non-partisan judgeship race. But the sexual predator protector, as Mike O’Connell referred to on LouisvilleKY.com‘s truth-telling website, who tried to expose the names of minors who were victims of sexual abuse by LMPD Explorer program in 2015 to intimidate them into silence won his bid for reelection to the County Attorney seat. Karl Price would have been our choice, but anyone but Mike is fine by us.
Our biggest surprise win was Sarah Stalker beating out privatizer protector Jonathan Lowe. Lowe was the only #DarkMoneyDem that didn’t make it to the next round. WE only stopped one of the five we identified. I’m not sure how Sarah did it because Lowe had endorsements from all the major labor groups, C-FAIR (LGBTQ+ Fairness) and had SCALA‘s dark money clout behind him. As far as I know, the only endorsement she had was from Dear JCPS. But I know she’s not only been doing the work for years, and as such, had already met a lot of people in the community, but she and her husband also knocked on a lot of doors. We heard reports of Jonathan walking his dog in the park more often than we heard he was seen knocking on doors. It matters.
Unfortunately, Derek Penwell lost his bid against AFSCME leader and JCTA-corruption enabler Sue Foster. Another C-FAIR endorsement that lost. I guess their endorsement just ain’t what it used to be.
A race we didn’t take as strong of a stance on but we are pleased to see the outcome on is Daniel Grossberg beating entrenched Democrat Tom Burch. Burch’s campaign used anti-Semitic rhetoric in a mailer against Grossberg (featured image).
The media did pick up on that story, but they didn’t mention that it was blatantly anti-Semitic, nor did they pick up on the anti-Black rhetoric used by Jewish Congressman John Yarmuth in smearing Attica Scott. But they wasted no time reporting an anti-Semitic story that wasn’t even there, in order to discredit poor Black and West Louisville voters who simply want to stop Greenberg and his dark money backers from gentrifying their neighborhoods. Grossberg (unofficially) beat Burch by just 100 votes, more or less. Burch relied on his name recognition and endorsements from the status quo enablers. Grossberg knocked on doors. Face time matters.
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Happy Mother’s Day
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.
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 Scott, Yarmuth doubled down on the misogynistic, and frankly, racist, rhetoric. Such a disappointment that this is how he chooses to end his otherwise incredible legacy.
The same can be said for the Dark Money Dems running for several other important seats around town, including Louisville Mayor. I was really disappointed to see how many men, Black and white, threw their hats into the ring after dedicated and experienced mother of four, Shameka Parrish-Wright had already filed to run. Not to mention, another incredible mom, Sarah Stalker, for House District 34, is up against a male JCPS bureaucrat who has demonstrated his allegiance to the status quo, with ties to Mitch McConnell, the Joneses and SCALA. Read all about it by following the links.
Welcome to the All Eyes on Kentucky website, a project of Dear JCPS and the Coalition for the People’s Agenda Education Committee. We are working to bring you accurate, timely, urgent information ahead of the May 17 Kentucky Primary. We, the People, know who we want to represent us, but well-funded disinformation campaigns on both sides of the aisle keep drowning out our messaging, and outside interests keep propping up the establishment candidates against Kentuckian’s wishes.
Please follow the links to the progressive alternative candidates pages. Even if you don’t live in their district, you can still donate and volunteer. Just like Rich Strike beat the long odds in yesterday’s Kentucky Derby, with all of our help the underdogs have a chance to win. The May 17 Primary is the last chance for several of these amazing Moms. Don’t delay!
Please keep checking back, or send questions, corrections or requests for clarification to moderator@alleyesonkentucky.org.
The only Democrat to represent Kentucky in Washington DC is retiring. But instead of Congressman John Yarmuth getting behind the progressive Black female KY House Representative with a proven track record pushing back on outsiders, predators and grifters, and who had already filed to run for the seat months earlier, the supposedly progressive white male decided to recruit and endorse another good old white boy, Senator Morgan McGarvey, in order to “keep from losing the seat.”
To whom, John? A Black woman? Do you not even realize what you just said?
But then when asked about the optics of favoring a white man over a Black woman, he claims it’s “reverse racism?” Where do people even come up with this stuff? The 3rd Congressional district IS Louisville, and there’s very little chance a Republican would win this seat. So if Attica won the Primary, Dems would not likely lose the seat, especially if the party were backing her. And why wouldn’t they be? So, the people you gentlemen appear to be protecting the seat for are more straight, white “establishment” men. So disappointing.
Forget the fact Attica’s opponent, Senate Minority Leader Morgan McGarvey, was not only unsuccessful at stopping ALEC and SCALA‘s charter school funding, anti-JCPS, anti-CRT, anti-woman, anti-LGBTQ+, racist legislation from becoming law this session, he admits he helped make some of it “better.” Attica knows better than to negotiate with terrorists, which is what some of these dark-money backed lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are. She can sniff out the BS and speak personally to issues that women and people of color face, and that’s why we need more people like her at the table. Not more of the same that got us here and keeps us here. #NoMoreStatusQuo
Read another post I made about #GotMilque? Happy Mother’s Day
It’s her time.
No, that’s not the same thing as saying “she’s entitled to it,” which is a micro-aggression said by Congressman John Yarmuth at a recent Louisville Forum event to twist the words of Carla Wallace. Words like these are often used to cast women, LGBTQ+ persons and/or people of color in a negative light for simply wanting the same things straight white men have always had. It’s a tactic we see time and again coming from the toxic, radical right. But I expected better from our allies. Especially you, John. Progressive Dems recognize that there is a lack of representation at these tables, and your arguments just don’t hold water.
Attica is where she needs to be when she needs to be there. She was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives in 2017. She was the first Black woman to hold a seat in Kentucky’s General Assembly in 20 years. Her colleague, Charles Booker, is well on his way to being the state’s next challenger to Senator Rand Paul. It’s his time, too. Yet Charles has only been in the public eye a fraction of the time Attica has, and he was elected to the KY House of Representatives in 2019, two years after Attica. Why are we able to get behind Charles so readily, but not Attica? And she filed to run for that seat four or five months before Yarmuth announced his retirement and his hand-picked mini-me white male mentee launched his behemoth of a campaign 10 minutes later. If anyone is acting like they’re “entitled” to a seat, its a bunch of white male “liberals” exercising their privilege to maintain it. You even admitted it!
Oh, and Reverse Racism? That’s not a thing. Watch this. And be sure to visit the latest page I put together about Attica Scott for more reasons why Louisville Dems should get behind her to replace retiring Democratic Congressman John Yarmuth on May 17.
Attica knows how to push back on the privatizers like ALEC and SCALA. Morgan has practically rolled out the red carpet and shown them the best ways to go about getting what they want. Especially David Jones, Jr. whose vision of JCPS, despite being voted off our school board in 2016, was finally, fully codified into Kentucky law when Senate Bill 1, the Monster Bill, which passed in part as SB250 in 2019, was overridden by the legislature last month.
Yarmuth’s endorsement of McGarvey reeks of white saviorism. White leaders making decisions for what they perceive to be best for the Black community based on their limited exposure, instead of actually creating spaces at tables, speaking to impacted community members and spending time in the community. Instead of accepting anecdotal input from random strangers with unknown agendas, try asking for their rationale to see if there’s more to it or if it was even valid. We all know lawmakers receive their share of unfair criticism, but especially Black female lawmakers. Sometimes this criticism turns out to not be accurate, which I believe is the case with Breonna Taylor’s mother’s criticisms of Attica. Or better yet, how about taking a step back and letting democracy play out without putting 800,000 pounds on the scale. Watch how they vote and getting behind the winner of the Primary. But nah, instead he tried to gaslight a room full of community members (and 133 Youtube onlookers) as to how he has a responsibility to keep the seat from being taken away from the establishment Dems, even if it means keeping an extremely qualified Black woman out. Yep, that’s pretty much what he said. I think they bought it, too.
These are the kinds of disingenuous white supremacist moves the GOP makes. I expected better from some of the Democratic party’s finest white male specimens, John and Morgan. Even Biden did better than these two. Twice. And it wouldn’t take much to be more progressive than Biden.
Please keep reading! Today’s blog post also unveils a quite lengthy dissection of the endorsement of Morgan McGarvey, as we add our first Alternative Candidate page to our website: Attica Scott for US Congress.
And please support Attica’s campaign by going directly to her website at https://atticaforcongress.com. Thank you.
The Courier Journal published an article today, but unfortunately, it’s only available to subscribers. I’ve made a PDF of it until I hear back from the author or paper about making it accessible to all, especially since it’s the only people the limited access could be protecting is white cis male establishment dems, which are the paper’s favorites. Or at least, that’s how it looks from here.
One of the quotes near the end of the article says,
“You can’t predict if Black voters will support someone by talking to a few people, even if they’re prominent residents,”
Still, McGarvey’s endorsements from Black leaders matter, he said. Cosby is especially influential.
“Who hasn’t heard of Kevin Cosby?”
Dewey Clayton, U of L Political Science Professor
That’s right. Rev. Cosby is a well-known local Black pastor, educator and business man. And he’s also a regular on SCALA and Jones projects, and Jones and Cosby have been known to frequent each others’ public and private celebrations and ceremonies, so it’s no surprise he would endorse a Dark-Money Democrat like McGarvey. More on Cosby later.
In addition to this less obvious connection, McGarvey was instrumental in getting Jones Junior‘s vision of how to destroy public schools for everyone except those who get into the track to Manual, Male, Brown or Central (or those who control the superintendent) across the finish line earlier this month. I go into a little bit more detail about some of those events here, and will keep adding more and more examples until the obvious is undeniable, even to a blind hog.
I have a lot more to say about this article, which is why I reached out to the reporter. In reading it, it almost felt like someone had been sniffing around this website before I published it. It has some of the concerns I raised woven throughout. I did see some strange website traffic the past few days, which is why I added a temporary password. But I thought it could be the people I’ve asked to help me button it up before I go live. I’m hoping to unveil the project this weekend. Thank you to those who are reading it ahead of time.
I don’t care if someone did alert the media to some of the truth I’m raising about Senator McGarvey on my website and my posts. It’s also entirely possible someone on McGarvey’s team (or sympathetic to him, like one of McConnell’s PACs) caught wind of some of this information I’ve been dripping out here and there and felt like they needed to get ahead of the obvious before a bomb drops. Create a distraction. That kind of thing. It’s a Pattern and Practice we’ve identified before.
That’s why I want to make sure the reporter got the whole story and not just the parts they were trying to spin. Because this whole situation, including the fluff piece, feels orchestrated by the establishment. Don’t take the bait. Avert your eyes. The Emperors are wearing no clothes, boys and girls. And it’s not a pretty sight.
As I start to share links to this website while it’s still in development to ask people I trust to review and provide feedback, I suspect more will learn about it and find it. This means there will be people who are not happy about the site and what it contains, and there will be efforts to discredit, detract and change the subject. Don’t let them. As we’ve learned from experience, these detractors are either the predators themselves, people who are employed to enable and empower them, or “useful idiots” who are easily gaslit into doing their bidding.
As time goes on, I will continue to fill in the gaps with more and more documentation to support the claims and concerns that are shared here. I had originally intended to put this information into a “tell all” book or docuseries, but with important elections coming up in Kentucky on May 17, 2022, I decided to try to start publishing some of the most obvious stories to help people who are just coming onto the scene or who have been like the “frog in the pot” that they didn’t even realize the water has reached a boiling temperature. But right here, right now Kentucky has candidates running for office in both parties who have ties to outsiders, predators and grifters.
In addition to ALEC and the Koch Brothers, whose ties to privatization of public education have been visible in Kentucky’s GOP for the past decade, as we outlined in several “connect the dots” pieces (ORIGINAL) (REVISED) showing their influence on charter schools, vouchers, state takeovers, not to mention our successful efforts to thwart them, at least until this past session that just ended.
Now, people are feeling the effects, and it’s important we point our fingers in the right directions.
But here in Louisville, Kentucky, we also have SCALA, which is a more liberal, white saviouristic approach to education reform that members of our own Democratic party have been aiding and abetting. And I bet people are less familiar with them and their founders, the Joneses,’ connections to Mitch McConnell.
Well, here’s a page we put together for that purpose. We all know KYGOP is infested with ALEC, Koch Institute flunkies, Bevinites and anything but teetotaling tea-party Libertarians. But what stands out the most to me is the fact that no one is paying attention to the close ties the Democrats have to the McConnells via the Joneses. From the amount of money the Humana king and his empire has donated to Mitch and other GOP candidates, which shifted the state into deep red territory, to the close bond they apparently had, to the amount of influence Jones Junior has had over the anti-JCPS legislation coming out of Frankfort. Here’s what McConnell had to say on the Senate floor after Senior died.
While these candidates who go along with these powerful white dudes may mean well, impact from their actions continues to lead to worse outcomes for our most vulnerable populations, and their lack of awareness that they are part of the problem is why they must be removed or blocked in this year’s election cycle.
KY Dems say they have your back while they smile and stab you in the back instead. The KYGOP will literally sell your unattended children as bait! At least they are honest! Privatization of public education feeds the pipeline to prison and siphons money out of our communities, just like mountain-top removal, coal mining and all of the other ways Kentuckians have been exploited for our resources and our labor without fair compensation and selling our children as bait. Mitch has had his hand in it since 1985.
Please check out the list of candidates from both parties who we’ve identified as having ties to outsiders, predators and grifters. Do your own fact-checking and ask around. One of the reasons Kentuckians always appear to “vote against our own interests” is because of how sophisticated the infiltrators have gotten and how much dark money is spent on disinformation campaigns that leave a lot of people so confused they just stay home on election day. This means establishment candidates win their primary election and by the time the general gets here, enthusiasm is gone. If you truly want to help us keep All Eyes on Kentucky, you’ll help us start with our primary election on May 17 and support the progressive candidates and help us shut down the establishment who likes to hand pick their cis white male “electable” successor instead of trusting the people to vote for our own best interests.
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