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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: HAPPY2BME on November 10, 2016, 09:09:43 AM
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Kentucky.com
By Jack Brammer and Linda Blackford
Republicans achieved the trifecta in Kentucky politics Tuesday, wresting control of the state House from Democrats in a landslide to complement their rule over the governor’s office and state Senate.
“The people of Kentucky have been heard and they want a new direction for the commonwealth of Kentucky,†said an ebullient Gov. Matt Bevin, who is expected to benefit mightily with a GOP-led House committed to his conservative agenda.
Republicans last led the chamber in 1921. Going into Election Day, the Kentucky House was the only law-making chamber in the South still controlled by Democrats, who held a 53-47 majority.
Longtime House Speaker Greg Stumbo, D-Prestonsburg, was among 17 Democratic incumbents swamped in the Republican wave. Stumbo has been in the House since 1980, except for four years to be state attorney general from 2004-2007. He has been speaker, the top leadership job in the House, since 2009.
http://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article113464563.html
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Donald Trump's campaign slogan is now an official government website
by Casey Newton@CaseyNewton Nov 9, 2016, 7:49pm EST
Make America great again is more than Donald J. Trump’s campaign slogan — it’s now the official web home for the president-elect’s transition team. GreatAgain.gov appeared online Wednesday, the day after Trump’s shocking victory against Hillary Clinton in the US presidential election.
GreatAgain.gov is about what you would expect from a transition team’s website — press information, biographies of Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence, and a place to apply to work in the new administration. (Trump will get to make more than 4,000 appointments to the federal government.)
http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/9/13580416/donald-trump-transition-website-great-again
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I bet that the county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses gave people courage. We often give up but when one person makes a stand it inspires the rest to go with their values. At least I thought she was from Kentucky.