Top Kentucky Democrat Delivers Awkward Speech After Tuesday’s Election

The best these previous leaders could do was refuse to cooperate or to cast symbolic votes saying they would repeal the law if they could.

“You know we’ve taken a few hard knocks tonight”, said Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear, who could not seek re-election because of term limits.

Cue much wailing and gnashing of teeth from Democrats, most of it centered on their “shock” and “surprise” that Bevin could win.

That’s why Democrats in Kentucky described the insurance exchange that Beshear established under Obama’s health-care reform as unconnected to Washington or the president. Because of Conway’s poor performance statewide, Northern Kentucky hardly pushed Bevin over the top.

His Democratic opponent, Jack Conway, supported the Medicaid expansion. Conway is Kentucky’s attorney general and had the backing of a powerful political organization, but was brought down by a Tea Party-supported Republican.

“Our party heads into the 2016 election with positive momentum and with the right vision to put our country back on track”, Mr. Priebus said in a statement.

LIASSON:…Didn’t do it. Democrats only needed one seat in the state Senate to get a majority. A gain of just one seat by Democrats could have flipped control because Democratic Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam would have served as the tiebreaker. “But the NRA was not out of line in boasting on Twitter: “#NRA-backed candidates retain control of the #Virginia Senate”.

However, the control of the state house may now be in doubt.

In MI, former state Reps.

“If, in fact, the Bible is a book of parables, like I believe it is, think about this: Mary did not ride an elephant into Bethlehem that night”.

In Houston, the nation’s fourth-largest city, efforts to secure nondiscrimination protections for gay and transgender people failed by a 2-to-1 ratio. But the GOP extends far beyond those two candidates. Matt will not vote for any spending bills that fund Obamacare. And Virginia Republicans demonstrated remarkable staying power in state and local races across the board. Kenney had pledged to step up the fight on poverty and provide universal pre-kindergarten. But thousands of mail-in ballots that were dropped off at polling places Tuesday remain to be counted.

The presidential race has Democrats feeling pretty smug these days, what with Hillary Clinton having righted her campaign and the GOP field continuing to be dominated by Ben Carson and Donald Trump (neither of whom seemingly has a prayer of actually making it to the White House). That potentially could influence the next round of legislative and congressional redistricting in an important swing state. OH voters said no to marijuana-legalization, according to Twitchy. The state will begin paying for the expansion in 2017, and costs could surpass $300 million by 2020. Opponents included a coalition of conservative pastors who said it infringed on their religious beliefs against homosexuality.

OH voters snuffed a marijuana legalization measure, although the defeat was blamed largely on the wording of the initiative, which drew cries of cronyism by creating a cultivation monopoly for 10 investors.

Voters approved a separate $310 million bond for affordable housing in San Francisco. When we get pissed off we sure do piss and moan on the internet, but historically a much lower percentage of us turn out for elections. Voters defeated the proposed amendment. Additional money will become available in 2019, if tax revenue from vehicle sales and rentals exceeds a certain threshold.

Heiner is advising Bevin on transportation issues.

“As a long time entrepreneur and small business owner, veteran and as the Mayor of The City of Fort Wright, Ky., I couldn’t be happier to see Kentucky voters reject Obamacare, WOTUS, NLRB, CPP and almost all of the job killing “progressive” polices of the Obama administration”. The ban targets endangered species of elephants, rhinoceroses, tigers, lions, leopards, cheetahs, pangolins, marine turtles, sharks and rays.

The measure in Coos County comes after a new state law that requires background checks for private, person-to-person gun sales.

And voters in the Colorado Springs, Colo., school district recalled three conservative board members whose controversial proposal to revamp advanced placement US history courses previous year spurred student walkouts and teacher protests.