Yes, Mr. Langford. You can count on me to show up with my paint brush for a photo op. We are long past the time when this should have been finished.

For those of you who are wondering what in the heck I am talking about, station manager Steve Langford has issued an appeal for citizens to phone, write, or e-mail him volunteering to show up with paint brush in hand to take a photo to send to our representatives in Frankfort. Click below to send Mr. Langford an e-mail.

slangford@wave3tv.com

I agree with the point Mr. Langford was trying to make. But I do have one problem with his presentation.

The brush he was waving around while issuing his appeal for the rest of us to join him looked to me like a wallpaper paste brush, not a paint brush. I think if we all show up with brushes like that one, we might just waste more taxpayers' dollars when we try to paint with them.

Kennedy painting bid rejected

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is so thoroughly incompetent and dishonest. $23 million has already been paid out to 'paint' this bridge and only a small portion of the southern end has been touched. The last two times this contract has been put out for bidding, only one, one company even bothered to put in their bid. This state's old buddy political system is stymieing this state and its efforts to move Kentucky ahead. Let's all write a thank-you letter to Governor Ernie Fletcher for blowing a once-in-a-lifetime chance to really change Kentucky state government.

As a relative newbie to Kentucky, it seems obvious to me that the state government problems/corruption have been a decades-long issue and under the leadership of the Democratic party. To blame all the problems/corruption on the current governor is pretty ridiculous!! He's been demonized from the gitgo. Where's the condemnation of the legacy left to his beleagured administration?

Sorry, but this citizen is sick & tired of all the criticism!!!

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>snip< He's been demonized from the gitgo. Where's the condemnation of the legacy left to his beleagured administration?

Sorry, but this citizen is sick & tired of all the criticism!!!

Ernie Fletcher deserves most of the criticism and questioning he's gotten so far. From all available evidence, it appears he took office with the intention of continuing the good-old-boy network that Kentucky has long had but with a Republican slant. That would be bad enough on its own but Ernie Fletcher ran with the promise to "clean up the mess in Frankfort." Simply converting the mess to one that favors Republicans is not cleaning up the mess!!!

Ernie Fletcher is nothing more than a two-faced liar and a hypocrite of the worst kind. One of his legal team's main answers to the charges brought against the governor is that this political patronage has gone on for decades. They argue that to prosecute Ernie Fletcher for what many others have done amounts to 'selective enforcement.'

If Ernie Fletcher hadn't run with the promise to rework the way things are done in state government, one might be able to excuse it as par for the course. As it is, he is simply being held accountable for the same sort of misdeeds he blamed the Democrats for. If we never start to hold Kentucky politicians accountable for their actions, nothing will ever change. Without some new responsibility for our elected officials, Kentucky will forever be doomed to be the laughing stock of other states.