PSA on KY clerk and wedding licenses. She is ELECTED and cannot be fired. [View all]

[whatthehey]

I know a lot of you already know this. I've seen dozens of corrections that prove that. But those dozens of corrections were to hundreds of false assumptions that thought she should be fired, so clearly the knowledge is not as universal as it could be.

I live in KY. Democrats here are not as they are most places, so any kind of party censure is unlikely too (and, while I don't have encyclopaedic knowledge of party bylaws, I'm pretty sure they can't get her out of office either, just refuse to nominate her next time). I'm probably around the least left quartile on DU, but local party members consider me a small step away from Marx politically speaking. The chances of them standing against someone who has staked out the Gawd position so effectively is essentially zero.

But nobody, not the governor or the legislature or any superior official can FIRE her. She can be impeached, but see above on Gawd invulnerability even amongst Dems. Add in Reps too and she could fellate demons on the courthouse steps before that would happen.

That leaves criminal prosecution, which may be possible and despite giving us a brief frisson of righteous pleasure would likely plunge this state into Republican hands for at least the next term as Bevin would play that religious oppression war on Christianity schtick to a gubernatorial landslide, so all the good Beshear, non-leftist though he may be, has done, including probably the most effective ACA implementation in the country, gets pissed away just so we can say "told you so".

Trust me we've been outplayed. In KY, as in much of the nation and hereabouts all of the region, nothing trumps the Gawd card.