Letter From The Governor

Today, I, like most state employees and retirees, received a letter from the Governor’s Office.

The letter dealt with one of my favorite topics, the Kentucky Retirement Systems (KRS).

The three paragraph letter, detailed how the Governor was taking care of state employees and retirees by asking the legislature to spend part of a projected surplus to fund the Kentucky Retirement Systems.

Let’s not even talk about how the projected surplus, if it happens, is already committed to pay for legislative mandates already on the books. And let's not talk about how Ernie should be paying more attention to what is going at KRS.

Let’s instead talk about what this letter really is about. This is Ernie Fletcher campaigning for Governor. In his usual ham handed way Ernie screws up again.

The letter was handled by Bluegrass Mailing Services. Their postage paid stamp was in the upper corner of the envelope.

So here is my question, was this mailing paid for by the Fletcher campaign using the letterhead of the Governor’s Office, or at least a cheap copy thereof?

Or was this sent at taxpayer expense, to make Ernie look good to state employees?

The bottom line is that either Ernie is sending out campaign materials without identifying them as such or he is using tax dollars to begin his campaign.

Talk about waste, fraud and abuse.