If successful, such claims could result in the loss of most if not all of the annual MSA payments to Kentucky, which have consistently exceeded 05 million each year. Moreover, there is a possibility that the flat fee contemplated by this legislation could be invalidated as a result of litigation.
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If these people broke the law and public money was paid out in an improper manner, they could be held responsible to pay that money back.
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In all the years I was in the legislature -- and I'll swear this on a stack of Bibles -- he never asked me to do anything or vote in a particular way, other than he always wants us to build more roads in the mountains.
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Well, that and workers' comp reform. He did lobby me for workers' comp reform, because Paul Patton asked him to. And the gas tax. He always wanted a hike in the gas tax.
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I believe what they think is this governor broke a covenant of honesty and personal responsibility. I don't think he can regain that public trust.
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While any increase is difficult for our citizens, we successfully reduced the increase by 40 percent in this case.
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They studied it. You can't manipulate a law unless you know how it works. And they were in the process of manipulating it, well past the point of breaking it, when we caught them.
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It is unprecedented for the governor's office to choose the judges in its own case. All parties should disclose any prior contacts with the special justices.
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All of this is so unprecedented to begin with -- the fact one party to a case can appoint his own justices.
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The federal prescription drug plan was touted as a measure to help seniors and save the states money. Instead, it's failing our most vulnerable elderly and disabled citizens, and it's failing the taxpayers of Kentucky.
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