Kentucky governor called Tupac Shakur to apologize

[KayF]

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/entertainment/kentucky-gov-apologizes-after-man-seeking-unemployment-named-tupac-shakur-turns-out-to-be-real

FRANKFORT, Ky. — It’s no joke — Tupac Shakur lives in Kentucky and needs unemployment benefits to pay his bills.

Shakur’s name was brought up by Gov. Andy Beshear on Monday night as he spoke about prank claims slowing down unemployment payments, including one filed under the name of the late rapper Tupac Shakur.

The Lexington Herald-Leader reports the claim by Tupac Malik Shakur, who goes by Malik, is legitimate. He worked as a cook in Lexington until coronavirus restrictions shut down restaurants.

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Meanwhile, Beshear personally called Shakur and apologized. Shakur forgave the governor, saying he understands and that mistakes happen.

[Corgigal]

1. My Dem Gov

is so sweet, and I try to catch his briefings everyday at 5. He’s also polling here, favorably in the 90s. I saw this live and it was funny.

[MyOwnPeace]

2. What!?!

You mean he didn't claim it was "sarcasm?"

What kind of leader is that! ?

(Oh, yeah, this really is )

[Corgigal]

3. A sweet,

Mr. Rogers kind of guy. He almost cried flat out yesterday, he knew some older lady who passed.

A nice man who cares. It’s refreshing.

[get the red out]

5. We have the same Governor!

I love him too! He cares, and it's obvious! As my late Grandmother back in Paintsville used to say, "You can tell he was raised right!"

[alfredo]

15. What an improvement over Gov Bevis. He put the asshole in Republican.

[get the red out]

17. Bevin tweets

The POS tweeted making fun of taking precautions early on. He is still so far up Trump’s fat ass that I am amazed he hasn’t suffocated.

[alfredo]

23. Send him back to New York

[Lonestarblue]

7. Hi Corgigal--former Kentuckian here.

What are you hearing about the Senate race? How is Amy McGrath viewed, and what do you think of her chances of winning? I keep seeing polls that she is close to McConnell’s numbers, but somehow McConnell always seems to win. Would love to hear your opinions on this race. Do you think Beshear’s current approvals will carry over to Democrats in November? I despise McConnell and hope for his demise in November.

[Corgigal]

20. I read she's tied,

but I don’t think Amy is a strong candidate. However, I just moved here it a few years back. However I don’t know any one who likes McConnell, so I don’t understand how he wins.

[Lonestarblue]

21. I still have family and friends there, and no one likes McConnell, even the Republicans among them.

McConnell’s approval ratings are usually somewhere in the low to mid 30%, but somehow he manages to win. Part of his votes come from the many rural areas of the state, but I’ve long suspected some hefty cheating along the way, like buying votes and promising big favors to area leaders—like ensuring a federal project goes through land they own—who then get behind McConnell and help him get elected.

[alfredo]

24. Look at our education ranking. That's how he wins

[JI7]

4. Kentucky is so lucky to have him as Governor right now. Things could be so much worse there

if they still had the other guy who is a total thug and belongs in prison from everything I read about him.

[Corgigal]

6. I think about that daily.

5,000 votes could be the reason why some us will survive this.

[IronLionZion]

8. Parents name their kids after celebrities all the time

I had a college schoolmate whose name really was James Bond

[George II]

10. I went to grammar school with a kid whose last name was Michael. They maliciously named him MICHAEL!

[EarnestPutz]

16. Met a man years ago in Virginia whose name was Hough Hough, pronounced....

"Hew Huff". He went by "Reggie" and did not appreciate his parents sense of humor.

[alfredo]

25. We had Ima Pigg and LaTrina

[Progressive Jones]

11. I worked with a guy whose Mom named him Billy Jack, because she liked the movies. nt

[alfredo]

14. My mom asked me if I am going to have kids and if it was a boy,would you name him

after me, making him the IVth. I said no, we're going to call him Blister Dipstick. She was not amused.

[NNadir]

18. Someone with my name became famous when I was about twelve.

The funny thing is that when people joke about this coincidence, they always act as if it's the first time I heard the joke.

I work very hard to be gracious about it.

[George II]

9. Imagine a republican, much less trump, admitting he was wrong and calling the man? NOPE!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. Presumably this mix-up would not have occurred to someone named Michael Bolton.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

13. So if Beshear used this name as an example of how "prankers" were clogging up the system,

were there other examples? Or was this just used to explain away why the UI system can't handle the load?

[CaptYossarian]

19. Trump has cited Frederick Douglass, who has been dead a bit longer than Tupac.

But he cites Bill Loney on a daily basis.

[Ron Obvious]

22. I used to know an Ozzie Osbourne

That's the name he signed in with on the BBS I ran. I gave him shit about using an alias, but it turned out to be his real name. He was in the phone book and everything. Must've got a lot of strange phone calls, I imagine.

It happens.

[Midnight Writer]

26. There is a John Kennedy from Louisiana that is an absolute joke.