Blogger files ethics complaint

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At exactly 8:25 PM this (Sunday) evening, Mark Nickolas (Chairman of The Foundation for Kentucky’s Future, and publisher of BluegrassReport.org) filed by fax a formal ethics complaint with the Kentucky Judicial Conduct Commission over Governor Fletcher’s appointment last Friday afternoon of two campaign contributors (Circuit Judge Jeffrey T. Burdette of Mount Vernon and attorney Ronald L. Green of Lexington) to sit on the Kentucky Supreme Court as special judges to hear just one case – Fletcher’s own last ditch appeal in the ongoing Merit System criminal investigation.

These appointments became necessary after Chief Justice Joseph Lambert and Justice John Roach removed themselves from the case last December. Citing violations of Canons of Judicial Conduct 1, 2 and 3, Nickolas urged the Judicial Conduct Commission to immediately recuse both special justices, as the oral arguments are scheduled for March 16, 2006 – just 18 days away.

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