rebill's Journal: It's about time, Ernie Fletcher!

The headline from the New York Times states, Kentucky Governor Signs Plea Deal.

Well, finally.

Governor Fletcher - you rode into office after the idiocy of Paul "the luv gov" Patton on a promise to clean up our State Capitol.

No one expected you to be perfect. So when the first hints of a merit hiring problems came out, you have a golden opportunity to reprimand some people who worked for you, apologize to the public, re-instate the guy who should not have been fired ... and then ride your way to the highest approval rating possible.

I can forgive a mistake whenyou act to clean up the mess.

Instead, you chose to PARDON everyone. And you never seemed to "get it" and never seemed to understand why that was such a boneheaded thing to do.

Do you realize that you have sabotaged the careers of every Republican that works in your administration? They all carry the taint of your promise to clean up Frankfort, and your failure to even act like you meant it.

I am a Republican - and I am voting against you, sir, even if it means I have to vote for Jim "Pop" Malone (check the 1989 campaign results in Kentucky and count how many Democrats lost in Jefferson County that year ... one. Guess who?).