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Someone asked me what Kentucky Republicans are up to in the legislative session that begins on Tuesday.
The following is a brief taste of some of the fun (awful) things they're attempting amid a global pandemic in a state that's been decimated financially.
The following is a brief taste of some of the fun (awful) things they're attempting amid a global pandemic in a state that's been decimated financially.
Targeting the poorest, most at-risk people in Kentucky - those who slip and can't afford their storage unit payments after they've lost everything in the age of COVID-19
https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21rs/prefiled/BR285.html
https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21rs/prefiled/BR285.html
Making it illegal to require vaccination to stop the spread of one of the most deadly, preventable diseases we've seen in our lifetime
https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21rs/prefiled/BR301.html
https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21rs/prefiled/BR301.html
Making it illegal to stop businesses from actively spreading diseases like COVID-19 during a global pandemic
https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21rs/prefiled/BR931.html
https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21rs/prefiled/BR931.html
Making it even easier to gut funding of public education by killing a school board's ability to levy the most basic taxes
https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21rs/prefiled/BR884.html
https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21rs/prefiled/BR884.html
Choking the state retirement system. Again.
https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21rs/prefiled/BR424.html
https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21rs/prefiled/BR424.html
Limiting gubernatorial authority to declare emergencies, as in the case of COVID-19, w/o approval of Kentucky's barely literate legislative body
https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21rs/prefiled/BR73.html
https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21rs/prefiled/BR73.html
Going even deeper in their attacks on Gov. Beshear to stop the spread of COVID-19
https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21rs/prefiled/BR130.html
https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21rs/prefiled/BR130.html
Playing games with state employees' cost of living pay raises
https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21rs/prefiled/BR70.html
https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21rs/prefiled/BR70.html
Trying to end location taxation of disaster response companies and their employees. Puts more $ in the pockets of people like Jerry Lundergan & the folks who prey on communities after natural disasters.
https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21rs/prefiled/BR399.html
https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21rs/prefiled/BR399.html
Three creepy, control-obsessed white men want to alter the state constitution to declare women don't have a right to abortion, which is.... uh... not exactly constitutional.
https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21rs/prefiled/BR835.html
https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21rs/prefiled/BR835.html
Making it easier for people like Ed Massey's former clients to avoid accountability for their crimes
https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21rs/prefiled/BR9.html
https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21rs/prefiled/BR9.html
All those are merely bills that have been pre-filed! Just imagine the kind of nonsense that's going to hit between now and mid-February, when new bills can no longer be filed. And the end of session - when Republicans traditionally attempt to gut & substitute unrelated bills.
Review all the pre-filed legislation yourself
https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21rs/prefiled/prefiled.html
https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21rs/prefiled/prefiled.html
