Mitch McConnell once again forgets that he is the pot calling the kettle black. [The Hill]

How badly will the Time Warner transition from Insight hurt? Will lubrication be necessary for customers in Kentucky? [H-L]

Kentuckians are already familiar with the damage that can be done with outside campaign money and activity. It’s the only way teabaggers can get elected. [NPR]

What? You mean your schools are selling out to big ag like Monsanto left and right? [Mother Jones]

Trader Joe’s is opening in Lexington at the end of June and that means Lexington hipsters are pooping their pants in excitement. [WLEX18]

Thomas Massie seems to have a problem with Kentucky Open Meetings laws and the Office of the Attorney General is sniffing around. [Page One]

This mess in Colorado where bond companies get involved in pushing school construction campaigns sounds a lot like what goes on here in Kentucky. With both schools and court houses, that is. [Denver Post]

A former supervisor of the KFC Yum! Center has sued the Kentucky State Fair Board, claiming he was fired after reporting “illegal and dangerous conduct” by board employees. Which sounds just right in Louisville and Kentucky. Whistleblowers always get fired and torn apart. [C-J/AKN]

Do you live in one of the most well-read cities in America? Of course not! You live in Kentucky. [HuffPo]

The last few years has been pretty much a nonstop ride of positive safety PR for the nuclear power industry, right? I mean, this is a technology that absorbed an enormous earthquake and tsunami and barely even killed anyone/left whole towns uninhabitable/terrified the world. Heh. [Wonkette]

Police in western Kentucky are investigating the fatal shooting of a woman who worked as a counselor in a middle school. [WKYT]

Kentucky Retirement Systems lost $100 million in a failed hedging strategy and it was covered up, the mainstream media ignored it and the only head to roll was that of the trustee who blew the whistle. Because we all know it’s okay to nix the guy pointing out corruption when concern about a $250 million underperformance to benchmarks is expressed and $100 million gets tossed to a currency manager.

And you wonder why Kentucky can’t have nice things.

Surely all this means he’ll be supporting health care reform, equality and fair taxes for the common man, right???

Here’s the gist: Massie didn’t provide notice for at least eight meetings of the Lewis County Fiscal Court that took place in 2011. His office has been pressed since April to provide documentation and cannot do so.

So Jim Parsons filed a complaint with Massie and with the OAG, which we hear is investigating and encouraged Parsons to file the complaint.

Here’s a look at the latest letter sent to Massie from Parsons:

Pursuant to the provisions of the Kentucky Open Meetings Act (the “Act”) I hereby file this complaint that 8 meetings of the Lewis County FIscal Court in 2011 were conducted in violation of the Act. On April 17, 2011 you responded to my open records request wherein I requested copies of the notices sent in advance of 14 special or recess meetings of the Lewis County Fiscal Court that took place in 2011. However, you were only able to produce notices for 6 of those meetings and produced no notice for any of the recess meetings. Therefore, if the notices do not exist for the 8 meetings in question, it is my contention that such meetings were held in violation of the Act; and pursuant to the Act any action taken at those meetings (including the adoption of the county budget) are voidable by a court of competent jurisdiction.

The recess meetings that occurred should be treated as special meetings under the Act and, therefore, you should have issued notice for those meetings in compliance the Act’s requirements for calling special meetings.

For your information, I have included my open records request, your response and a list of the 2011 meetings of the Lewis County Fiscal Court which indicates which of the recess or special meetings that you were able to provide notice.

Should you have questions regarding this matter please contact me.

Parsons CCd the letter to Amye Bensenhaver, one of Jack Conway’s deputies.

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The meetings Massie provided notice for are in bold:

• Recess Meeting on 2/28/11
• Recess Meeting on 3/3/11
• Recess Meeting on 3/28/11
• Recess Meeting on 4/25/11
• Recess Meeting on 5/23/11
• Special Meeting on 5/27/11
• Special Meeting on 6/27/11
• Special Meeting on 7/22/11
• Special Meeting on 8/26/11
• Special Meeting on 9/6/11
• Special Meeting on 9/13/11
• Special Meeting on 9/29/11
• Special Meeting on 10/24/11
• Special Meeting on 11.29/11

The others? Seems he’s got something to hide for some reason.

It is our understanding, according to folks in the OAG, that the letter of complaint had to be filed with Massie before the OAG could investigate.

Looks like Jamie Comer took a hint and made his name a reasonable size. Here’s a picture from Mr. Blurrycam with the details:

Thank goodness those shenanigans are behind us in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

They’ve been driving up and down Brownsboro Road all morning illegally placing yard signs in rights-of-way.

A few shots:

We called Meeks’ office and Betty says he’s out of the office for the day.

Of course, teabagger Wendy Caswell has done the same crap:

You’d think people like Reggie Meeks would know better than to pull stunts like this.

For the record: we have better footage – including plate numbers – of the “guy” placing signs up and down the street. At one point, they ventured onto our private property but thought twice about placing signs upon seeing dozens of cameras.

UPDATE: Just like that, a flood of calls from Meeks’ personal cell phone. We’d prefer he collect his illegally placed signs rather than bother making excuses.

Lexington is in full panic mode over a homeless shelter. It’s all the typical hoopla. [H-L]

Karl Rove and the teabaggers may suddenly have to disclose their fancy donors. And you know Republicans don’t like anything like that. [HuffPo]

If Marcus Carey has the goods on Thomas Massie lying about euthanasia, he needs to release them. Otherwise, he’s just playing pat-a-cake and is itching for someone to bring up DUIs. [Bluegrass Bulletin]

On a scale of one to teabagger crazy, how hilarious is it that Rand Paul is now trying to run for the presidency or whatever? [C-J/AKN]

It must have been the tales of privileged schoolboy terorrizing that ultimately won over Bush’s heart. [Wonkette]

Mittens Romney’s campaign is defending the massive JPMorgan loss. Wow. That should illustrate perfectly what’s wrong with Mittens. [HuffPo]

What? You mean the deficit is lower now than when President Barack Obama took office? Surely not! [Think Progress]

It’s almost sad that Ray Jones didn’t have much to say when Steve Beshear was selling off Medicaid to the highest bidder without any due diligence. Eastern Kentucky certainly loses again. [WYMT]

“God” may be a major theme in this south-central state senate race but it’s a shame people still continue to play pat-a-cake with wedge issues. [H-L]

Earmarks still have friends in high places – like Mitch McConnell. Because he loves loves loves to buy votes with your tax dollars. [Politico]

An historic country store went up in flames in Grant County last night. They’re one of our favorite things about rural Kentucky. [WLEX18]

Here’s a sad look at why Democrats are losing the Fourth Congressional District. Again. For the millionth time. [Page One]

What was that, again, about us being the only folks to criticize Rand Paul, mouth-breathers? [C-J/AKN]

Didn’t take long for CoventryCares to resume coverage of that addiction drug. [Business First]

Whaaaaat? An undercover gay bathhouse spy was endorsed by Michele Beard Bachmann? Nope, it’s not her husband! This is getting more and more interesting. [Wonkette]

This story about Morehead State will literally make you pee your pants while laughing. [H-L]

Here’s a nice look at how Louisvillians will be screwed by the Louisville Water Company and Metro Sewer District. BEND OVER AND GRAB YOUR ANKLES! [C-J/AKN]

Really, you can’t even sit at home in Lexington without having your home invaded these days. [WKYT]

In Pennsylvania, there’s an industrial revolution going on. Battalions of drilling rigs are boring into the earth to extract natural gas from an underground layer of shale called the Marcellus formation. And as the wells multiply all along the western end of the state, people worry they may be facing another toxic legacy. [NPR]

On April 8th Envisat, Europe’s largest Earth-observing satellite, unexpectedly stopped talking to its users on the Earth below. Since then those users have been frantically trying to re-establish contact. [The Economist]

The House GOP leadership is moving swiftly to try to change the Violence Against Women Act to earn support from outside groups and gain passage on the floor. [Politico]

Doesn’t look like President Barack Obama’s decision to say he doesn’t hate the gays had much of an impact on polling. [Daily Kos]

The agreement over voting on amendments to the Export-Import Bank reauthorization legislation is a good example of how bills will make their way through the Senate, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday. [The Hill]

Is Thomas Massie a big time jobs creator? Not so much. And he’s following directly in Rand Paul’s hypocritical footsteps. [Page One Here & Here]

Funny, Pensions & Investments sure seems to think he is:

At the $13.3 billion Kentucky Retirement Systems, a trustee precipitated an investigation, detailed in an independent counsel report released March 12, into use of placement agents and undisclosed fees paid to them. At Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. earlier this year, an employee alleged the corporate-governance advisory firm sold confidential client proxy-voting data to proxy solicitation firms.

These whistleblower complaints represent a concern of institutional investment management that will require better ways to handle tips and deal with issues brought to light.

The SEC, much maligned after missing or ignoring sensational cases like the Madoff investment swindle, has made the new whistleblower provision a key element in strengthening its enforcement efforts.

-SNIP-

Whistleblowers don’t have to go through the SEC. The Kentucky systems’ trustee did and the ISS employee apparently did as well. Complaints might not fit SEC criteria or whistleblowers might decide for other reasons to bring their complaint through another venue.

The SEC whistleblower rules likely will encourage more such allegations and influence how they are handled. And in this era of social networking, employees might more willingly embrace coming forward to reveal activities.

And that leads us to believe the Securities and Exchange Commission thinks he is.

But who are you gonna believe? A couple people pushed and appointed by Beshear/Abramson/Fischer or the people actually revealing corruption and billions of wasted dollars?

Here’s just one of the reasons:

From: Milly Diehl REDACTED ADDRESS
To: mhdiehl REDACTED ADDRESS
Sent: Fri, May 11, 2012 3:50 pm
Subject: Bill Adkins in Ft. Mitchell May 14

Support Bill Adkins for Congress
Monday May 14 –5:30 -7:30 pm
213 Prather Court, Ft. Mitchell
Hosted by:
Aimee and Adam Wulfeck
Debbie and Rick Wulfeck

Fundraiser
“all donations appreciated”

Yep. A fundraising invitation with no paid-for-by disclaimer language, nothing about contribution limits, yadda yadda.

The Democrats love complaining about Republican missteps in the 4th but it looks like we’re in for a long, embarrassing Democratic failure.