Kentucky legislature, Beshear react to news of proposed Mitch McConnell statue

Kentucky legislature, Beshear react to news of proposed Mitch McConnell statue

Kentucky state lawmakers want to place a privately funded statue of U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell in the Capitol rotunda, but Gov. Andy Beshear has hinted that he will veto the legislation.Under House Bill 757, if a statue of McConnell were to be privately funded and donated, it would be placed in the Capitol rotunda. There has been an empty space in the rotunda for a few years after a controversial statue of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Co…

Read Governor Andy Beshear is Right: Poltitical Prince of Darkness Mitch McConnell Does Not Deserve a Statue now from Blog for Arizona for Politics from a Liberal Viewpoint

Kentucky Republicans would like to reward former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell for his service to the state and the country with a statue in his honor. The questions that are probably on most political observers' minds on hearing that proposal, after heaving out their latest meal at the prospect of giving the Political Prince…