#andy beshear

[saywhat-politics]

Kentucky Republicans have tried to take away Governor Beshear’s ability to appoint Mitch McConnell’s replacement. Beshear says he’s considering ignoring the state legislature and appointing a Democrat to replace McConnell anyway.

He believes the law is unconstitutional, that Kentucky’s constitution gives him the authority, and that he’s prepared to test the GOP on it.

This is exactly how Democrats should be fighting.

[liberalsarecool]

Public education dollars were never meant for privatized corporate charter schools or Christian Academies. Period.

[democratsinthesouth]

[onlytiktoks]

https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article312792486.html

[existennialmemes]

Cutting it really fucking close here, but it's refreshing that he's actually saying it now

[thedailyelm]

Just curious, do people who are shitting on Andy Beshear care about Kentucky at all? Because while you are so focused on McConnell, he is actually making life better for Kentuckyians, but you don’t care about that do you

[deadpresidents]

I find it worrisome how so many Dems I know have been focused on The Kennedy Center and the Reflecting Pool lately, but then when I bring up competitive races this fall, they're a bit clueless. A family member of mine, who's an activist, didn't even realize that her Republican member of Congress is vulnerable.

Do you share my concern that Democrats tend to fixate on Trump, rather than on elections and winning back power?

Yes, I agree. The focus should be on the midterms and the fact that President Trump has flushed practically any form of dissent or moderation from the Republican Party through his endorsements of the most extreme of the extremists, state-by-state, throughout the entire primary season.

Instead of the Reflecting Pool or The Kennedy Center or the ballroom or the UFC fight that was held at the White House, Democrats should be showing voters just who these people are that Trump has endorsed over more traditional Republican incumbents during this cycle.

But more than anything, Democrats should be hammering home how desperate things are for Americans economically because of the disastrous war with Iran that Trump launched (and, let's be honest: a war that we did not win). There'a a direct line from the war to millions of Americans struggling to pay for gas and groceries and utilities. Democrats should be buying up ad time and playing Trump's dismissive comments about inflation and skyrocketing cost-of-living while pointing out how he and his family are making a shitload of money while we all struggle. He's literally sitting in the Oval Office super gluing more gold shit on the walls while people can't pay for groceries or gasoline.

I'd love to see someone like Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear take a page out of Bill Clinton's 1992 playbook and just take aim at the economy with laser focus. He should say we need to block out all of the performative distractions and make the economy the center of everything the Democratic Party does or says. The ability for Americans to eat and pay their electricity bills and fill their car up with gas to get to work normally shouldn't be a fucking luxury (or impossibility), and I want to see a Democrat just stand on that corner and make that the only thing they talk about for the next two years.

[saywhat-politics]

Kentucky’s Dem Governor Threatens Nuclear Option on Mitch Crisis

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said he is willing to launch a legal challenge to allow him to choose Mitch McConnell’s replacement if the senato

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said he is willing to launch a legal challenge to allow him to choose Mitch McConnell's replacement if the senator cannot return to office.Beshear, a Democrat, told MS NOW's Politics Nation host Rev. Al Sharpton on Sunday that he "might make some news right here" while revealing the potential options he has as governor to replace the 84-year-old, whose health has been the subject of intense speculation for weeks."Our Republican supermajority has been so worried about me being able to potentially support someone before a special election that they passed not one but two laws," Beshear said. "They tried at first to say they could submit a list of three people to me from the Republican Party, and I'd have to pick. Now they say I can't fill a vacancy, but I have to call a special election."