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[Christopher]

Interesting article in today's New York Times about "Cultivating a Culture of Two Wheels" in Portland.

You might have to register to read that. Bugmenot shows this for the Times right now if you want a workaround:

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[brokebike]

thanks for sharing, Christopher! Great article.

[mcrib]

An economic impact study performed by the Cabinet for Economic Development’s Office of Research and Information Technology indicates the construction phase alone would have a tremendous effect on Kentucky’s economy. The potential one-time direct economic impact of
An estimated 175 direct jobs would be created upon completion of the project, with an additional 375 jobs to be realized related to coal mining operations in the production of coal feedstock.

“The project will create hundreds of jobs and provide extraordinary long-term economic benefits for the citizens of Kentucky,” said Governor Fletcher. “Peabody has had a longstanding presence in Kentucky and will continue to be an important partner in achieving energy security within the state.”

600 jobs from bikes or 550 from coal after millions in incintives. Lets hope that fuck Fletcher looses tomorrow
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[Christopher]

Well, since the election has been mentioned, and this is a "general discussion" area, I'll go ahead and encourage everyone NOT to vote straight Democratic.


Please vote for Richie Farmer in the Agricultural Commissioners race. It's an outdated, underfunded office that should be folded into the Governor's cabinet. Richie, God bless him, is kind of an idiot. But the guy that's standing against him for the Democrats is INSANE! INSANE!

Seriously, just skim this interview he gave to the Farmer's Pride (below my signature), then go vote for Richie Farmer (oh, okay, and for Beshear, Conway, Luallen and Hollenbach--I'm personally still on the fence in the Secretary of State's race).

Cheers,

Christopher

Interview with David Lynn Williams

Q: What are the legislative issues that you feel are important to pursue in next year's session of the General Assembly?

A: Take all natural gas out of all the houses in the United States and put it in every vehicles, car, truck, tractor, fire equipment, and everything and these people that come up with alcohol and all that is a bunch of dammed idiots.
Also, get rid of all your state senators and your state representatives and replaces them with all 120 county judges. The 25 top counties make them the state senators, and then the 95 other state representatives. Then you take all that money and put it back in the counties. You don't need them (legislators) up there because they don't do nothing anyways.
My third is to tell everyone to watch the George Patton movie, because I am going to run it like that. People say I can't do it, but If I'm elected I'm going to be there fighting and trying to do it. They had better watch the George Patton movie because that is the way I am going to run the department. I'm not obligated to nobody but God, I'm not a politician, just call me an SOB.

Q: Are you concerned about the future funding of the Kentucky Proud program or other Department of Agriculture programs that are currently funded through tobacco settlement dollars given that revenue's instability as compared to General Fund appropriation?

A: If it, the money, is coming to the private let the private sector do it. I don't see why the taxpayer should pay it. If not throw it out the door, throw it in the waste can.

Q: What changes if any do you have in mind for the structure of the Department of Agriculture? Do you foresee the expansion of the Department's role in any areas?

A: Number one they had better do their job, because there won't be no expansion. They had better earn their pay if they don't earn to pay, when I'm elected, they had better just go home.

Q: If elected Commissioner you will serve as vice chair of the Agriculture Development Board. What do you feel has been the investment that has made the biggest impact on Kentucky's agriculture economy?

A: Well first of all they are a bunch of damn liars. I am the man that came up with selling out the tobacco back in 1996. Not all these people, Ford and all of them. It was my idea that we did, I was the one that came up with the pounds and how to do all of that. It is all a bunch of damn people stealing money for kickbacks and that is one of the reasons I'm running because I am going to investigate every crooked and corrupt thing in agriculture and if I can't do it state, I'll do it at the federal level. God help them.

Q: Traditionally Kentucky's agriculture receipts are calculated at the farm gate, and much of our value-added investments are not captured in those numbers, such as Commonwealth Agri-Energy. Do you agree that it is time for agriculture to look beyond the farm gate to understand the value of the industry in Kentucky's overall economy?

A: Well them coming up with that alcohol, that's stupid. I tell you why. What about the people raising chickens, and the poultry goes up a dollar a pound at the store. What about your bacon, what about all the other products.
They think that I'm stupid and they are all going to take the corn and put it over here. That's why I'm against alcohol; they are taking the feed away from the animal you eat, your pigs, chickens, ducks, cows, and everything. Then it is why it (meat) is going up to about four times what it used to be, because they are taking corn for that. And that's why I don't like it.
That's ethanol but about adding value to your products do you think we need to capture that added value in looking at Kentucky's overall agriculture economy?
Let the market buy it, let the people raise it, and let them sell it at an open market. That is one thing I know. I don't like these damn governments where they take this land and put it away and pay a man 30,000 a year if he doesn't do anything, that's stupid.

Q: Like Conservation Reserve Program?

A: Yeah, the bank and where they do all this to land. Then they asked me all these questions about farming how is the young farmer going to start. There is no way he can do it he can't even buy the tractor and pay the interest. If the go back to the olden days where two or more people own a combine and they set up and go in and everybody chips in and then they buy five instead of one.
I don't how this operates but I tell you one thing I'll know more about it in 30 days than them people that's been up there for 30 years. You can bet your life on that.

Q: To date, the Kentucky Proud campaign has been widely accepted as a success. Where do you see the Kentucky Proud program in four years if you are elected as Commissioner?

A: I don't know I would have to look into it. I would want to look at it before I made a decision on it.

Q: Beyond the Kentucky Proud program how do you see the Department reaching out to the consumer to connect them with Kentucky's agriculture community?

A: We'll I would sit down and I would reach out to them the same way run a business. I would have to sell myself as I did in business. I was the guy in my industry, people would pay me to build the job and oversee it.
When I went out of business I was good enough that you hired me you had to pay me $15,000 to $20,000 just to go to work for you. You had to give me that in advance then I would say I would go do the job and if I didn't, I'd give you back the $20,000. I would put it in the bank first because I don't take nobody's word. I know business and I know my business.

Q: This year Kentucky has faced disaster with the drought and early freeze. At this time there is discussion on how the state should handle such catastrophic weather conditions and one option that has been mentioned is turning to the ADF to provide assistance. Do you agree with this direction? Why.

A: What god created let god help them.

Q: What is the greatest lesson you hope to learn as a public servant?

A: I don't need to learn anything. I used to own and I've run farms. I know farming, inside and out. I know how to figure as well as anyone in this state, because I did all my figuring when I had millions of dollars and I did it all by myself.
ran it, I ran it out of plant and I was the boss. I took 2,000 dollars in Lexington back in 1968 and in 1974 I had 300 people in Illinois. You can go back and check with any judge, any lawyer, and the only reason I got out of business is that I made two mistakes and I'll never make those two misstates again.
I trusted the bank and I had two brothers that listened to the wrong people. I had to take it over and I had to put 300 people out of work in four days because of their lies. I ain't a damn liar, I don't lie.
I would love to take on anybody that feels like they can take me on. I'm on boards. As I told them at KET I sit on boards, American line builders in St. Louis, and others. I know my …I know my business and nobody can take me on.
What would you like the public to know about you and why you would make a good commissioner?
I'll do my damnest to make it number one. I know how to play the game, I know how to get thing done. I never forgot the things I did as an old farm boy. I know what I'm doing.
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[brokebike]

guy sounds like such an arrogant, slack-jawed yokel... I think he signed up for the wrong party.

[politicalhero]

Here is a website we created with Q & A from the candidates. All candidates were contact in the same fashion and the same amount of times. However, a few decided not to respond.

Some of the questions are kind of slow pitched but we had to toe a weird line.

Go Vote!

http://www.kentuckyelection.org/

[Christopher]

[politicalhero]

for the record or anyone who is listening, recording, taping, tapping, etc

Christopher Rowe was not persuaded, he was given appropriate information to generate his own opinion. :D

[brokebike]

paranoid, Tim?

maybe you should change your user name?

[alex]

is it sad that my main source of political info comes from the lexrides forum?

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[trudy]

luckly i knew about this well informed and very well prepared douche before voting so i had already voted for good ole boy richie. member when he played for them cats, now those where some good years.

"What god created let god help them" whaa????

[brokebike]

The "Kentucky Proud" program has prospered under Farmer, no?

[DHB]

I wonder what kind of bike he rides.

[mcrib]

Check out this piece of shit. These people don't even try to disguise the fact that they've been bought.

www.kentucky.com/454/story/231346.html
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