With
the 2019 elections already a thing of the past, I might as well write this and
one other blog post about it before looking ahead to more of 2020 elections. I
had written my thoughts on what was going on with Kentucky governor election
before it happened. Well, now I’m going to post some of what’s happened since
regarding it.
The
Democrat, Andy Beshear, won the election against incumbent Republican’t Matt
Bevin. It would seem that Matt wasn’t wanting to go down easily as, instead of
conceding his loss, he claimed that there were voting irregularities. There was
no evidence to back this up. Well, there could have been, but Matt didn’t bring
any up or try to fabricate it.
Some
say this election as Kentuckians rejecting the ways of Trump. But it wasn’t
that, not really. Matt was the most unpopular governor of any state at that
time. He was widely hated among the people in his state and own party. Plus, of
all the elections that took place in Kentucky in 2019, Matt was the only
Republican who lost the race they competed in.
Sadly,
before Andy could take over, the Republicans in the state continued their
terrible ways of doing power grabs and limited a newly elected Democrat of any
power that they would have had otherwise. That’s a huge problem for this
country as a whole and should be banned.
Something
that might be worth pointing out relating to this post are the ads. It seemed
that the way Matt tried to promote himself failed him. He tried to align
himself with Trump, but that did not convince others to vote for him. He did
some racist attacks, but that didn’t help this time. And he never really made
much of a case for himself.
When
Bill Clinton was a lame duck, he gained controversy for the last minute pardons
that he had done on his way out. Matt is now facing similar backlash. Only he
pardoned more and some worse people, some of whom had political connections to
him. Sadly, our only hope for justice in this case is hoping that they will be
caught with a new crime or one they weren’t charged with before. Matt must not
have cared how much worse he would look as a result of this.
I
don’t know if pardons can be undone and I also don’t know what issues they
might have in terms of why they are even a law. People in Kentucky, prominent
Republicans, it should be added as well, are not liking what Matt did and
calling him out on it. Even Mitch McConnell is saying just how bad Matt is. If
Mitch thinks you messed up, then you done messed up.
I
don’t think there is much else to say. You are more than welcome to find out
what Matt said about the pardons himself. I was going to include an article,
but it wouldn’t load and I couldn’t read what it said as a result. The first
Bush also caused controversy when he pardoned I think all of the people related
to the Iran Contra Affair.
To
sum up this post, the most unpopular governor of the country lost reelection,
there were some issues with changing the rules on their way out, there were
controversial pardons that were not all without personal bias, and Democrat
Andy Beshear is now governor of Kentucky.
