Top Ten Accomplishments for Kentucky in 2014 under Governor Steve Beshear (D)

[kentuck]

Perhaps we should give this Governor another look? Perhaps as the VP candidate on the Democratic ticket?
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http://migration.kentucky.gov/newsroom/governor/20141229top10.htm

1. Record-setting $3.7 billion in new business investment

2. Jobless rates plunge to 6 percent, lowest level since 2008

3. Nation’s 2nd biggest drop in uninsured, thanks to kynect

4. Biggest increase in K-12 education funding in state history

5. Bourbon’s banner year (There are more barrels of bourbon aging in Kentucky right now – about 5 million – than there are people living in the Bluegrass State, and every one of those barrels had long been taxed as property)

6. Hundreds of millions of dollars saved on Ohio River Bridges project

7. Gov. secures $68 million more in tobacco master settlement agreement payment

8. State’s largest employer goes tobacco-free

9. Broadband partnership to build 3,000 miles of fiber for high-speed internet access

10. SOAR attracts national investment, names executive director

[kentuck]

1. His honesty and sincerity remind me of Jimmy Carter...

But that is not a bad thing.

[dsc]

2. He has done alot of good for Kentucky

but his behavior on marriage equality was beastly and cost my aunt the ability to marry her partner before her partner died.