Sunday, January 16, 2005
senate soap opera
ok, so if i didn't live in ky i would find the goings-on in frankfort regarding that legality of the seating of the senator from louisville a humerous diversion.......an entertainment at best.....but now that the legislature has wasted 2 weeks on this single issue, it has gotten out of hand as far as i am concerned.....for those who have not followed the story......the winner of the seat in question....a mrs stephenson (r) won the election, but was later disqulaified because a lower court determined that she failed to meet residency requirements.....she not only owned a home in indiana...just across the river, she had indiana plates on her cars, drove using an indiana liscense, and enrolled her daughter at i.u. under in-state tuition...and that is the rub........she went to all of that trouble to qualify for instate tuition........when she worked in louisville, went to church in louisville, and ran for office in louisville........gentle readers, though the courts and the senate have made this out to be a case of democrat vs republican, neither can have these things both ways.....either the woman 'moved' to indiana to take advantage of lower tuition, and she cannot be seated in the ky senate, or she can be seated, and then charged with a felony in indiana for tuition fraud........frankly, the woman is crazy if she thinks she can have it both ways.....and all of her republican colleagues who are backing her up are just as crazy.....all except one. the republican from paducah who stood in the senate chambers and lambasted his colleagues for trying to get the woman seated when she clearly didn't qualify....just because she was a reublican...not because she was legal........and so the case will go before the ky supreme court this week.......meanwhile the lower courts have told this woman that she may not participate in any capacity as a senator until such time as the case is decided.......so will she bide her time in her indiana house, or her louisville house..........hmmm......where are all of those celebrity photographers when inquiring minds really want to know.......
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