By Linda Blackford | Editor
For the past seven years, state Sen. Chris McDaniel has tried to make sure that former Gov. Matt Bevin’s political pardon controversy could not happen again. This year, he got the idea on the ballot, a constitutional amendment that would curb the pardon power around elections. Now he’s out on the road trying to make the pitch to voters before Nov. 3.
Speaking of the upcoming election, President Trump is coming to Kentucky on Saturday to talk, like Lewis Carroll’s walrus, of many things. Shoes, ships, ceiling wax, cabbages, kings, and possibly the GOP candidates he’d like you to vote for on Nov. 3
And that’s not the only intersection of Kentucky and President Trump. On Tuesday, the White House announced they’d asked for the resignation of Kimberly Guilfoyle, the U.S. Ambassador to Greece after a Wall Street Journal exposed a series of text messages between her and Eric Deters, the well-known MAGA provocateur from Northern Kentucky. Or maybe not so MAGA anymore.
In Commentary, Bonnie Jean Feldkamp, the former opinion editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal is asking some pointed questions about an Olmsted park and the University of Louisville.
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Sen. Chris McDaniel, chair of the Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee, has tried to get a constitutional amendment to curb the governor’s pardon powers passed for seven years. (Kentucky Lantern photo by Liam Niemeyer)
By McKenna Horsley
Sen. Chris McDaniel is on the road this week, crossing Kentucky to urge voters to support a constitutional amendment aimed at curbing governors’ pardon powers around elections.
President Donald Trump dances on stage during a March 11 event in Kentucky. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
By Sarah Ladd
President Donald Trump will be in Northern Kentucky on Saturday, Oct. 17.
Trump will be in Highland Heights, but the specific location was not included in an event sign up. Doors open at 10:30 a.m., a rally starts at 12:30 p.m. Trump will speak at 2 p.m. The event is free, but registration is required.
From left to right, Republican gubernatorial candidates Eric Deters, Daniel Cameron, Kelly Craft, Ryan Quarles and Alan Keck take their seats before the KET debate. (Kentucky Lantern photo by McKenna Horsley)
By McKenna Horsley
President Donald Trump has asked Kimberly Guilfoyle, the U.S. ambassador to Greece, to resign after texts between her and former Kentucky governor candidate and suspended attorney Eric Deters became public, according to published reports.
Stansbury Park in Louisville was designed by fames landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. It sits near the University of Louisville campus. (Photo by Bonnie Jean Feldkamp for the Kentucky Lantern.)
COMMENTARY
By Bonnie Jean Feldkamp
I thought the University of Louisville had listened.
Two years ago, the university hosted public meetings about the prospect of developing Stansbury Park, a historic Olmsted-designed park at the edge of campus. The community pushed back and the idea seemed to disappear.
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