Politics Not Ethics

One more comment on the Bluegrass Freedom Fund. The fund had contributors other than gambling interests.

Disregarding this window dressing email from the Bluegrass Freedom Fund:

CONGRATULATIONS, KENTUCKY!

House of Representatives Unanimously Passes Ethics Reform

Bluegrass Freedom Fund Urges State Senate to Join Grassroots Effort

The Bluegrass Freedom Fund congratulates the Kentucky House of Representatives for unanimously (94-0) passing ethics reform on Wednesday, January 30, 2008. We urge the State Senate to join this grassroots effort to pass important anti-corruption legislation this session. Our advocacy on behalf of ethics reform, which began last year, is one big step closer to becoming law.

Call your State Senator today and urge them to support strong ethics reform.

The purpose of the Fund was to put Steve Beshear in the Governor’s Mansion. Ethics reform may be an unintentional by product, but the purpose was political control. The primary drivers (contributors) want Casino Gambling. Other major contributors (labor unions) wanted the Republicans out. Their objective was the same, even if their motivations were different.

This was politics, pure and simple, and had nothing to do with ethics.