He only lost by 4k votes or something insane like that. And I don't know if you're from KY so got to see it, but the Democrats were truly going for broke here: they put every dirty trick they've ever learned to work in every race that election. It was fascinating, actually. The cartoons with the black AG as a white guy helping the Klan were a high point, but the rumor that Bevin was from OH was probably my favorite.
And all they got, from all of this, was the narrowest of narrow victories in one race, while the Republicans got supermajorities in the legislature and every other elected executive office available. (For the record, we were blue on the state level only a few years ago.)
As for the teachers, I view this as a very Pyrrhic victory: they aren't real popular right now. A lot of parents around me are very... disappointed, to put it mildly, to learn what teachers actually are doing in class on a given day, what with suddenly having to do it themselves. The Lt. Governor is a former teacher (lol yep) who has not been helping with the messaging on any front, and generally makes everyone hate her and her boss. Worse still, the Democrats pushed the "for the teachers" idea so hard that many in the state seem to hold a direct cause-effect between them and the current Governor, and thus why our state suddenly sucks so bad. Long term, this is working out terribly for them: at the end, I suspect they'll be crying about a lot more than pensions.
... Sorry for being long-winded. I'm sick (not the rona), so I can't word so good and it's taking me longer to get out what I'm trying to say.
Louisville wanted that idiot.
NYC, LA, Seattle, Houston etc. Shit holes breed shit.
He only lost by 4k votes or something insane like that. And I don't know if you're from KY so got to see it, but the Democrats were truly going for broke here: they put every dirty trick they've ever learned to work in every race that election. It was fascinating, actually. The cartoons with the black AG as a white guy helping the Klan were a high point, but the rumor that Bevin was from OH was probably my favorite.
And all they got, from all of this, was the narrowest of narrow victories in one race, while the Republicans got supermajorities in the legislature and every other elected executive office available. (For the record, we were blue on the state level only a few years ago.)
As for the teachers, I view this as a very Pyrrhic victory: they aren't real popular right now. A lot of parents around me are very... disappointed, to put it mildly, to learn what teachers actually are doing in class on a given day, what with suddenly having to do it themselves. The Lt. Governor is a former teacher (lol yep) who has not been helping with the messaging on any front, and generally makes everyone hate her and her boss. Worse still, the Democrats pushed the "for the teachers" idea so hard that many in the state seem to hold a direct cause-effect between them and the current Governor, and thus why our state suddenly sucks so bad. Long term, this is working out terribly for them: at the end, I suspect they'll be crying about a lot more than pensions.
... Sorry for being long-winded. I'm sick (not the rona), so I can't word so good and it's taking me longer to get out what I'm trying to say.