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(116,829 posts) Mon Oct 10, 2016, 02:49 AM Oct 2016

House Speaker Stumbo appoints panel to investigate Gov. Bevin

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The speaker of Kentucky's House of Representatives has launched a formal investigation of the state's Republican governor, appointing a bipartisan committee to probe whether Matt Bevin broke the law while trying to convince Democrats to switch parties in the last legislative chamber in the South not controlled by the GOP.

Democratic Speaker Greg Stumbo said the committee will have the power to subpoena witnesses and to take testimony under oath, and will include three Democrats and two Republicans.

"We're not asking them to find anything except the truth," Stumbo said.

But GOP leaders say one of the Republican appointees — Rep. David Floyd of Bardstown — will not participate in what they're calling an effort to smear Bevin. The other, Rep. Jim Stewart, did not return a call seeking comment.

Read more: http://kentuckytoday.com/stories/house-speaker-stumbo-appoints-panel-to-investigate-gov-bevin,5460

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Bevin get the red out Oct 2016 #1

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Mon Oct 10, 2016, 04:23 AM

Oct 2016

The only thing Bevin has done since taking office is try to inflict damage on higher education and replace various boards with his cronies. Oh, and he said there would be a civil war is the US if Trump didn't win. He is a disaster for this state. Typical tea bagger mini-dictator who resents the law.

Greg Stumbo is more than willing to get down and dirty with this whiny, alt right turd though. Stumbo is a good ol' Appalachian boy and he won't mess around.

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