Thursday, June 30, 2016

Bevin ignores recent Kentucky history at his own peril

A good editorial from the Herald-Leader:
(Gov. Matt Bevin) should know his executive order giving himself the exclusive power to choose all the ethics commissioners is a really, really bad idea.

...if Bevin wants to deliver an administration that is both ethical and appears to be ethical he can’t get there by grabbing all the power to appoint the arbiters of ethics for himself.

It’s a bad decision, one that ignores Kentucky government’s long, ethically-challenged history.