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The poll also indicated Beshear’s approval rating is 63% across the board with 38% of Republican voters and 60% of Independent voters polled approving of his performance. Among the 800 voters polled, just 35% disapprove of the job Beshear’s doing in office.
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The Kentucky Lantern reported that Beshear’s campaign and the Kentucky Democratic Party refunded a combined $202,000 in excess political contributions that came from donations connected to London Mayor Randall Weddle.
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The Republican attacked Gov. Beshear, calling him the “shutdown governor”, for his pandemic policies related to the closings of businesses, churches, and schools.
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Republicans had criticized Beshear last week for inaction in dealing with the board’s membership. The controversy surfaced when the Courier Journal reported that the two seats had sat idle for more than a year on the 11 voting-member board.
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Gov. Andy Beshear and other public officials gathered Wednesday to dedicate the monument on the Kentucky Capitol grounds, where it stands in recognition of the lives lost since the pandemic began in early 2020.
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Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky signals focus on family values in closely watched fall raceIn his first sit-down interview since Tuesday's primary, Beshear also tried to contrast his steady leadership with the just-concluded bitter GOP campaign in which state Attorney General Daniel Cameron prevailed in a 12-candidate field.
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Under the terms of the program, 80% of the funds will go to the four counties most impacted by those two 2021 natural disasters: Graves, Warren, Hopkins and Breathitt. The remaining 20% of the funding will be split between 36 counties to aid recovery efforts for both disasters.
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It’s easy to override a governor’s veto in Kentucky – it only takes a majority vote in each legislative chamber. And Republican lawmakers once again flexed their control of the statehouse, where they hold 80% of seats in both the House and the Senate, overriding vetoes with little trouble as Democrats voiced opposition.
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Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear has allowed a bill criticized as a “book-banning” measure to become law without his signature.
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The Kentucky Legislature’s GOP supermajorities can nix Beshear’s veto. If that happens, the ACLU of Kentucky indicated it will probably sue to try to block the bill.