With his administration crumbling around him, which includes his own lieutenant governor abandoning him, Governor Ernie Fletcher has rebuilt his campaign for re-election to include personal attacks against Democratic candidate Steve Beshear for his law firm's involvement in the dismantling of a failed Kentucky company in the 1990s.
Beshear's firm, Stites & Harbison, worked to liquidate the assets of Kentucky Central Life Insurance Company. Governor Fletcher contends that Stites & Harbison, billed $21 million for its legal work (for fifteen years of work).
So what's the problem?
Fletcher goes further to use this fact to paint Beshear as a heartless individual, because he benefited from the suffering of others, through the bankruptcy and liquidation of this company. It also goes on further to state that Beshear was investigated for misconduct, while on the case. According to Fletcher, Stites & Harbison paid over $100,000 to resolve the "secretive" investigation.
It all sounds like a smoke screen to me.
This is all convenient coming from a governor who was indicted by a Franklin County Circuit Court grand jury for multiple counts of fraud and official misconduct. Although, Fletcher contends that the charges against him were eventually dismissed, it did not stop him from using his executive privilege to pardon his political cronies. Also, Governor Fletcher refuses to divulge the donors to his personal legal fund.
This whole situation--on the part of Ernie Fletcher--seems rather hypocritical.
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