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Link to tweet
Joe Sonka 😐
@joesonka
· 5m
Replying to @courierjournal
Bevin out now...
"We're going to have a change in the governorship based on the outcome.... I'm not going to contest the result." #kygov
Joe Sonka 😐
@joesonka
Again, Gov. Matt Bevin is CONCEDING his defeat in the #kygov race, says @AndyBeshearKY is Kentucky's next governor.
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2:20 PM - Nov 14, 2019
blogslut
(37,985 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,488 posts)KY............. ..........
Cha
(296,868 posts)So Happy for you all and Kentucky!
Leghorn21
(13,523 posts)Great news!!
TeamPooka
(24,209 posts)bitterross
(4,066 posts)Caliman73
(11,726 posts)Republican legislature will rush through bills to limit the governor's authority. That seems to be how Republicans respond to defeat and the "will of the people".
Traildogbob
(8,684 posts)Bank on it. GOP has nothing to do with democracy. Will someone explain why so many have sacrificed their lives for "this?" I am a disgusted Veteran. Ashamed of this country right now.
SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)What the greatest generation would have done with a president like this right after World War II
I have a pretty good idea and it's not pretty
But it would be fitting
How soon we forget
geardaddy
(24,926 posts)soldierant
(6,792 posts)has been proposed, I believe.
I have it in my head that Tony Evers took it to the courts and won, but I'm too lazy to look it up
Liberal Jesus Freak
(1,451 posts)The House, Senate, and all major offices are held by Republicans 🤷🏼?♀️
EndlessWire
(6,460 posts)pandr32
(11,562 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,259 posts)Cha
(296,868 posts)It really happened!
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,259 posts)Of course, Rs got every down ticket office, but at least we don't have Bevin again.
Cha
(296,868 posts)his hands full.. here's to Bootin moscowmitch in 2020.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,259 posts)I'm hoping that maddogpac's billboards help us to ditch Moscow Mitch. Kentucky is not alone is wanting that evil monster outtahere!
BTW, it's good to hear from you again -- haven't seen any posts from you in a while!
EveHammond13
(2,855 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,774 posts)Mersky
(4,980 posts)SergeStorms
(19,187 posts)to steal over 5,000 votes.
Congratulations Governor Beshear!
central scrutinizer
(11,637 posts)Figured stealing 20,000 would be enough. Oops.
SergeStorms
(19,187 posts)DownriverDem
(6,226 posts)is that Beshear will have to work with all repubs in KY. Michigan Dem Governor Whitmer has a similar problemm, but with not all repubs. They don't want to work with her and I hope Beshear will be able to work with repubs in kY.
PatrickforO
(14,559 posts)FakeNoose
(32,596 posts)Congratulations Governor Beshear and Kentucky Democrats!
gademocrat7
(10,645 posts)spanone
(135,795 posts)40RatRod
(532 posts)I expected him to challenge it as close as it was. Great news. Bad things can happen during a recount.
onetexan
(13,023 posts)very slim margin, thanks to the Teachers Union who worked with Beshear's campaign to GOTV and delivered the necessary votes to push him over as the winner.
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)calimary
(81,125 posts)And on this, at least, so is Bevin.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)First order of business.
Rhiannon12866
(204,780 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)Just saw a GREAT one I'd like to share.
Guy on a bed, dressed in a bathrobe, speaking on a phone: "Hello. Can I have a wake-up call?"
Female front desk clerk on the phone, with a big ol' grin: "You lost the election!"
If anyone can post a link, I'd appreciate it. Almost as much as I appreciate the schadenfreude (as an expatriated Kentuckian).
CaptainTruth
(6,576 posts)... copy that URL & use it to post here.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)un American thugs.
CaptainTruth
(6,576 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,488 posts)Beshear and Lt. Gov.-elect Coleman are scheduled to be inaugurated on Tuesday, Dec. 10.
KY................
sheshe2
(83,655 posts)JohnnyLib2
(11,211 posts)Let's hope anti-jerk sentiment is spreading.
honest.abe
(8,616 posts)Celerity
(43,125 posts)crickets
(25,952 posts)alphafemale
(18,497 posts)kyburbonkid
(251 posts)Although Trump and Bevin are very much bed-fellows in that line of thinking. I'm super happy my fellow Ky native Dem friend won this and I think the state of KY will welcome Andy with arms open wide. I wish it was more of a blue wave down-ticket. There were some very good people running like Heather French Henry (ran for State Auditor) who is as honest and qualified as a rising sunset. I was also sorry to see Stumbo lose as badly as he did (ran for Ky AG). Instead, we'll have a very newb McConnell aid as AG. Stumbo got hit by too much name recognition (in a right-wing backlash way). Stumbo is a good guy and would have been an excellent check-n-balance to super-majority Rethug controlled state-senate and state-house. Too much Liberal Dem baggage in the minds of the Rethugs. Stumbo lost big too, and I doubt we'll see him come back.
kentuck
(111,052 posts)His Dad was an excellent Governor.
Initech
(100,041 posts)Blue Owl
(50,273 posts)I hear the Appalachia Trail is lovely this time of year...
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)TomSlick
(11,088 posts)Of course, better never late.
AwakeAtLast
(14,123 posts)So glad I don't have to see his awful commercials anymore!
vsrazdem
(2,177 posts)worked so hard on his campaign. What a Loser (double entendre).
comradebillyboy
(10,128 posts)dustyscamp
(2,223 posts)saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)elect Andy Beshear. I'm sure the grassroots support was out on the ground, making it happen.