Northern Kentucky Democrats, however, said that although it's likely Murgatroyd will keep his job as Fletcher's deputy chief of staff, the episode likely has scuttled his political future.Judy Woodruff is teaching at Harvard. It is a part of Harvard University's Institute of Politics Visiting Fellows program, or maybe not.
"This is it for Dick Murgatroyd," said state Rep. Dennis Keene, D-Wilder, Ky. "He won't recover from this. There'll be a lot of them that won't recover from this and it won't just be Dick Murgatroyd."[...]
But Keene said Fletcher's move Monday had tainted himself as well as the defendants in the investigation.
"You saw it live and in living color," Keene said. "Not only has he committed political suicide, but he's also damaged a lot of Republican careers in the House and in the Senate. They'll all go down the tubes with him."
The governor expects the controversy to blow over before the next campaign season, said Barbara Bardes, a resident of Rabbit Hash, Ky., and an American politics professor at the University of Cincinnati.
"It's a very long time to the next election," she said.
Throughout the controversy, Kentuckians have remained relatively disinterested, Bardes said. She suggested that it could be because the charges of political favors the individuals were facing were "nothing new in Kentucky."
Television journalist Judy Woodruff has been named a visiting fellow for the fall semester at Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, the center announced Monday.Seinfeld is involved in a new show and Jessica Alba signs on to The Wake.
Woodruff, who has covered politics and other news for more than three decades at NBC, PBS and CNN, will lead a study group for students on contemporary issues in journalism.
Neighboring communities are already helping New Orleans.
According to an Associated Press report, neighborhoods along part of Lake Pontchartrain were flooded, forcing residents onto their roofs.Paul McCartney's new single, "Fine Line," is finally out on CD.
It was too early to assess damage to Jewish sites in the area. Among sites of Jewish interest is New Orleans’ Touro Synagogue, which bills itself as the oldest Jewish house of worship in America outside of the original 13 colonies.
Jewish organizations in the region and beyond pitched in to help out those touched by Katrina.
A Jewish camp in Mississippi was opened to New Orleans residents fleeing the storm. Nearly 150 evacuees, including some disabled adults, took shelter at the Reform movement’s Henry S. Jacobs Camp in Utica.
Three Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries remained in New Orleans to help residents who couldn’t leave the city.
Among them was Rabbi Yossi Nemes. Nemes received a panicked phone call from a visiting Jewish family that had been evicted from their hotel, which was shuttering up against the storm, a Chabad spokesman told JTA.
The family couldn’t make it to the Superdome quickly enough to miss the storm and, concerned for its safety, contacted Nemes — who decided to stay in his own home and take in the visitors.
St. Louis has had 11 straight winning months. Tony LaRussa is at 2,198 wins. Matt Morris starts tonight. Jeff Suppan starts tomorrow. Thursday is an open date.
Forty-six Red Sox players have played this season.
Tim Longmeyer has released the following statement on the behalf of the Louisville-Jefferson County Democratic Party:
As a preacher, Ernie Fletcher certainly learned of the importance of morality in guiding our daily lives. As a pilot, Ernie Fletcher surely learned the importance of well calibrated instruments in leading the way. As a physician, Fletcher must have learned the importance of following a doctor's advice. Yet, Ernie Fletcher seems to have forgotten these lessons. As a Governor, Fletcher has lost his moral compass and has ignored his own prescription for change in Frankfort.To vote on the Herald-Leader poll, go here NOW. As of now: Do you agree with the governor's decision to pardon indicted current and former state employees?
Governor Ernie Fletcher has now joined legions of Wall Street embezzlers and organized crime thugs and taken "the Fifth" before a grand jury despite earlier promises by him to cooperate with the investigation into his administration's criminal abuse of the State Merit Employee system. Fletcher has now also done what no head of a crime family could ever do, he has pardoned his so-called "disciples" from the felonies and misdemeanors for which they were indicted. Despite campaign pledges to end corruption in Frankfort, Fletcher's administration has created a new version of corruption updated for the 21st Century through the use of e-mails and Blackberrys. Though Fletcher admitted mistakes were made, he failed to even say he is sorry.
Governor Ernie Fletcher has disgraced the laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and has abused the trust her citizens bestowed upon him. Fletcher and his administration are a national embarrassment for our Commonwealth made only worse by the hypocrisy of his campaign pledge to end the waste, fraud, and abuse in Frankfort. The politician who rode into the state capitol on a charging white steed now slogs through the mud dragging a bleeding elephant tethered to his heel. It is time for Fletcher to spare our great Commonwealth any further embarrassment, it is time for Fletcher to assure the families of all state employees that their livelihoods will not be jeopardized by partisan thugs, it is time for Fletcher to finally abide by his pledge to clean up the mess in Frankfort, it is time for Governor Ernie Fletcher to resign and to take his thugs and "disciples" with him.
Maybe then Ernie Fletcher can find his moral compass. Maybe then Fletcher will heed the words of the poet..."Physician, heal thyself."
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