written by Johnathan Masters
Constructing more juvenile drug courts
will not help Kentucky's economy in the slightest. That increases our
taxes on public works projects we do not need any more of. It's a
fascist response to dire economic forecasts, just like scapegoating
Mexicans is. It's also Keynesian. The War on Drugs only helps: 1)
increase brutality, and; 2) making the industry very lucrative for
the drug dealers, who make Billions of US Dollars because of it's
high demand due to it's illegality. I'll also note, there's no poppy
fields in the West End. There are no poppy fields in Appalachia. Drew
Thorton risked flying to Colombia in a Cessna plane, dropping kilos
of cocaine into the hillsides of Georgia, having a man on the ground
retrieving the kilos at the designated drop points, and then once
having successfully smuggled the Colombia cocaine into the United
States, go about the tedious and rigorous business of selling that
cocaine to local native individuals. In 1985, the demand for cocaine
in Kentucky was that strong! We've tried attacking the supply side,
in regards to Nixon's criminally racist war on drugs, but we haven't
tried to attack the demand side. We should attack Nixon's War on
Drugs from the Demand side of Economics. I'd rather have an end to
the war on drugs than legalized casinos, or alcohol.
Casinos may generate revenue, and
Kentucky should allow Casinos to operate, but it'll come at the
expense of many poor folks hoping to hit the jackpot, and all
Kentuckians should know that the odds are in the house's favor. You
probably aren't going to win any jackpots. Casinos will suck your
pockets dry, and the house won't feel a bit bad about it.
It also seems worded very specifically
to only allow Horse Park owners to have “gaming” machines, so I'm
not even sure if Scott's Plan would “legalize” full blown Las
Vegas-style Casinos.
We should also make sure the proceeds
goes towards what it's supposed to. We already have an
over-bureaucratic State Lottery system, which was set-up to subsidize
education. There should be no cuts on K-12, Higher Education, or
Medicaid in Kentucky's budget. A Young Administration would maintain
the essential services our society has deemed beneficial to us all.
Will T. Scott overestimates how much
Casinos are going to help Kentucky's economic woes. Will T. Scott
points out that Kentucky has $34 Billion Debt in unpaid pensions.
Scott is against Stumbo's plan of borrowing money, $1-3 Billion US
Dollars, or so, to make the pension debt solvent. Some Republicans
want to default on the pensions, and pay nobody, anything. Casinos
will help, but, also, in many important ways, they'll hurt. A massive
educational outreach will be needed if Casinos become a part of
Kentucky.
I agree with Will T. Scott's desire for
Charter Schools, and for Vouchers, though I'm not sure how the
financing for it would break down. Scott is talking about having
absolute power over the creation and financing of separate “public”
specifically-chartered schools that he himself approves of.
Kentuckians deserve more options with their education, but I'm not so
sure this is it. Will T. Scott wants the Governor, himself, to fund
Charter Schools, and to chuck the Department of Education and local
School Boards out of the decision-making process. Scott would get the
schools he approves of, built and financed, with total absolute
control over Scott's Youth.
Will T. Scott wants to diversify our
energy alternatives, and admits that we can't just rely only on coal
anymore. Scott, however, only speaks of oil and gas. While those may
be options for energy alternatives, they're not the end-all,
solve-all options. We should consider all options, and make the best
decisions once all of the limited amount of options have been
presented. It will take consideration of all of the energy
alternative options, including the energy source for all life on
planet Earth: the Sun.
Scott is talking about Fracking. It's
dangerous. Even oil company CEOs don't want fracking around their
houses.
Will Frack'n Scott... and Jack Frack'n
Conway?
Meanwhile, Geoffrey Young, whose main
line of work was working as an environmentalist for the Commonwealth,
is talking about
1 - Solar
2 - Wind
3 - Biomass
4 – Low Head Hydroelectric
and
5 - Geothermal Power
as alternative energies that Kentucky
should be diversifying and investing in.
Young also believes we should combine
heat and power. http://young4ky.com/
Geoffrey M. Young has earned a
Bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and
a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of
Massachusetts. Young also achieved a Master's degree in Agriculture
Economics from the University of Kentucky. Here's 3 pages Young got
published:
Young, Geoffrey. “Kentucky Energy
Policy and Future Policies”:
https://louisville.edu/kiesd/sustain-magazine/Sustain9.pdf
74% of Germany's energy comes from
alternative sources. While our electricity may be cheaper nationally,
it can, and should be, even cheaper. The energy of the Sun is going
to be constant for millions of years. We should utilize that resource
to the maximum.
Geoff Young's opponent just recently
talked about how much he loves coal. Again, he's at it with that
meaningless babble. It's not about who loves coal the most, but who
controls it, who benefits, who profits from it, and who loses.
Currently, a Pennsylvania corporation owns LG&E and “Kentucky”
Utilities, and all of the profits from Kentucky coal is being sucked
out of our State into some foreign Magnate's money bin.
Will T. Scott is at least talking about
some alternatives: natural gas and oil. Geoff Young's opponent may
start running to the right of Will T. Scott. Is Geoff Young's
opponent for the Bluegrass Pipeline? Is Geoff Young's opponent for
Fracking? Where is Geoff Young's opponent's 55-page economic plan for
the State of Kentucky? Is it posted publicly, online, for all 4.4
million of us to read?
Geoff Young's opponent doesn't want to
go to the forums, not because he's scared of the Republicans, but
because he's scared to debate Geoff Young on the issues. Geoff
Young's opponent would look too much like the Republicans, and the
viewing public would see only 1 candidate who is a true blue
Progressive—an honest man—who genuinely cares about the middle,
working, and poor classes of Kentucky.
Geoff Young's opponent is going to keep
on bragging about how he sued Obama, how he's against capping
emissions, how he's in favor of mountaintop removal... Geoff Young's
opponent is running to the right, already, right now, at the very
onset of the Democratic Primaries. The few “liberal” issues Geoff
Young's opponent believes in now can only last so long. There's 9
more months until Election Day (aka “Woodstock in Frankfort”)
http://www.kentucky.com/2015/02/07/3683236_Geoff
Young's opponent-says-gop-attempts-to-link.html?rh=1.
“The GOP held a 48% to 43% lead on
the generic ballot, with Comer and Heiner leading Geoff Young's
opponent and Bevin and Scott trailing him. All head-to-head results
were within the Margin of Error, showing the closeness of the
contest.”
http://www.runswitchpr.com/runswitch-pr-releases-2015-gubernatorial-campaign-results/
This means, if any said generic
Republican and a generic Democrat ran for Governor, today,
Kentuckians would vote for the Republican as their Governor. Both
James Comer and Hal Heiner would beat Geoff Young's opponent in the
General Election. Geoff Young's opponent is a sure loser. Young is a
true progressive Democrat's only real option.
With Young, you have a consistent
pragmatic moderate. Young is the “issues candidate”. We know
where Young stands on the issues. Young's opponent is all over the
place.
Will T. Scott seems unskeptical of
ALEC's legislation and data. ALEC is a group that writes legislation
for corporations all throughout America. I'd mostly err in voting
against anything that ALEC ever wrote, knowing their track record.
Will T. Scott is also talking about
lowering taxes. Lowering everybody's taxes, and somehow, the less
revenue we get will somehow get Kentucky's $34 Billion US Dollars in
unfunded pension debt paid off? I'm not sure if Will T. Scott can do
all of that. Bevin talked about doing away with the Estate Tax. Comer
wanted zero income tax, like how Tennessee is doing right now.
Two days ago, Geoff Young's opponent
has signaled his desire to split the Democratic Party in two with
illegal obstructionist maneuvers. Geoff Young's opponent has split
the Democratic Party between the strong morally righteous with
convictions versus the amorally despicable weak criminal losers;
between the Republican-Democrats versus the true blue Progressive
Democrats; between the authentic versus the compromised; between the
Bronze Age Luddites versus the text messaging-smart phone
owning-broadband users. Since Geoff Young's opponent has failed to
acknowledge the Young Campaign, he's going to be pleasantly surprised
on Election Day. David defeated Goliath, and Young will too on May
19, 2015. What Geoff Young's opponent fails to understand is that
Geoff Young represents something more honest, something better, more
genuine, than Conway. Young, an everyman, has real ideas, and real
solutions. Young is a good honest man. Young is a regular
Kentuckian—a Fred Tuttle—and perhaps that's why Geoff Young's
opponent is afraid to debate Geoff. The most dangerous weapon against
the professional dishonest immoral criminal corruptionists in
government... is a good honest man.
Instead of showing by example that
Democrats can have a “gentleman's conversation”, and have a tour
of “Lincoln-Douglass” types of debate in all cardinal directions
of Kentucky, Young's opponent goes McConnelling, and vies to spend
all of his $2 Million (Heiner has $4M) in attack politics, instead of
talking about solving the perennial issues of Kentucky. We need to be
protecting Medicaid, protecting Unions, protecting working families
across Kentucky, saving pensions of the state workers, and education
and healthcare reform, not criminalizing everybody. Kentucky tops the
list of being the worst state in many important indicators, such as
Pollution, Poverty, and Cancer. These are the issues the Democrats
should be focused on working on, and come up with some novel
solutions to our plethora of problems.
Our conversation should be
constructive.
Geoffrey M. Young was a State employee.
He is already one of us. He isn't part of the establishment that put
Kentucky $34 Billion in the hole from unfunded pensions. Of course
he'll fight for Kentucky's pensions. Kentucky's pensions is Geoff's
pensions. The fight is one and the same. His fight is our fight. The
attacks on him are their attacks on all of us, we the people, of
Kentucky.
So, in Mitch's and Rand's Kentucky, an
honest working Democratic Kentucky man finally decided to stand up,
to take a stand against the avalanche of corruption, and big
shocker... the establishment wants to tamp down the burgeoning and
inevitable oncoming Young Rainbow Revolution.
Geoff Young's opponent gets his
corporate “liberal” fawning media to parrot whatever absurdity
comes out his mouth. Remember when Mitch said Curtis Morrison was
acting “Nixonian”? Mitch was able to turn the hypocritical media
against the whistleblower, against the good citizen, and in favor of
the man who supports wiretaps for everybody's telephones and
electronic communications.
The injustice that Kentucky's media did
to Gatewood is too much to bare it all out here and now. Gatewood was
Kentucky's Huey Long. Side note: Will T. Scott has a speaking style
like Huey Long and Julian Carroll combined.
The January 2009 Ice Storm that hit
Kentucky wound up killing 35 Kentuckians (“mostly from carbon
monoxide poisoning due to power generators or kerosene heaters being
used indoors without proper ventilation”).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2009_North_American_ice_storm
In order to rescue the 700,000 Kentucky homes who had no electricity,
Beshear declared Kentucky a national emergency, got federal monies
(Obama Bucks), and dispatched 4,600 National Guardsmen to bailout
Kentuckians who were caught in a horrific ice storm.
http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1876304,00.html
In March 2012, again, Beshear declared
Kentucky a national emergency area, and got federal funding—Obama
Bucks—in order to save the Kentuckians who had major tornado
damages to cope with. 400 National Guard soldiers were deployed, and
21 Kentuckians died.
http://migration.kentucky.gov/Newsroom/governor/20120304majordisasterdecrequest.htm
Obama's budget just offered a $1
Billion lifeline to help out-of-work Coal miners in eastern Kentucky,
Appalachia.
http://www.kentucky.com/2015/02/02/3673874_obama-proposes-1-billion-lifeline.html?rh=1
Obama included in it, Job Training, Small Business Startup money, and
infrastructure projects in $1 Billion Dollars, earmarked specifically
for Kentuckians. Offering subsidized solutions to the joblessness in
Appalachia doesn't seem like an effective way to wage a “war on
coal”.
To be a Democrat in Kentucky, it seems
like you must immediately throw your President under the bus, in
spite of his many accomplishments. You won't hear Geoff Young's
opponent speaking well of Barack Obama. He may admit to voting for
Obama, only to add the caveat that he turned right around, and
stabbed him in the back by suing him. ObamaCare, Barack's crowning
achievement, has garnered over ½ million—600,000+—Kentuckians to
date. Of those who signed up for health insurance, 75% of them did so
for the first time.
http://www.harlandaily.com/news/news/151157108/Kynect-enrollment-continues-to-climb-in-the-new-year
Mitch McConnell's main agenda was to make Obama a “one term
President”, and now, he's back to attempting to pull ObamaCare up
root and branch. It should be a crime to let Kentuckians die for a
lack of health insurance. Those who fight tooth and nail to destroy
your human right to health insurance is a criminal. Steve Beshear was
right in implementing ObamaCare, and expanding Medicaid in Kentucky.
Under a Young Administration, there would be no cuts in Medicaid
(23%), K-12 spending (20%), and College monies (26% of the budget), 3
of the highest expenditures for Kentucky's Frankfort Budget. Geoff
Young, actually, would increase the budget of Medicaid, and use
Medicaid as a vehicle for a “public option” for Kentuckians to
purchase for their own health insurance, like TennCare, only, say
“KentuckyCare”.
Here's a playlist of 2 Forums Geoff
Young has spoken at:
Here's the video for the Disabilities
Forum held 2-5-13 at the Frankfort Convention Center:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSHKAUjP0Cg
No video footage has been released to
the public of the first Kentucky Press Forum. 30 members of
Kentucky's “elite” press were present, and yet, virtually all of
them forgot to mention that Young was even there, in spite of him
slamming the Republicans, and inviting them to join Planned
Parenthood. Out of all of those television cameras, nothing was
aired, nothing was posted, and if it wasn't for some Twitter posts
and a single sentence in some old print source media, and for Geoff's
public facebook comments, nothing would have been known about the
“public” forum. The media wrote that “sparks flew” at the
forum, desperately searching for some rift to exploit, about some
tiny verbal spat between Heiner and Comer over Casino gaming.
Here's what I wrote about the first
Press Forum:
Here's what I wrote about the 3rd
Disabilities Forum:
Geoff Young and I basically agree on
most issues. There's very few wedge issues between us, though there
are some. On the Death Penalty, and on Nuclear Power, we have slight
nuanced perspectives on.
One particular point, a strategic point
of order that differs from Mr. Young, is that I will withhold my vote
for Conway after the Democratic Primary. I understand power systems
and dynamics, and that's why I believe strongly that Geoff Young
deserves a seat at the table. He's a Democratic candidate for
Governor. He's only 1 of 2 candidates. This race is a coin toss. The
Republican Party is truly a despicable organization, and until I see
that Jack Conway is truly a Progressive, one that will stop the
impending Republican Class War, I will continue to withhold my vote.
I will withhold my vote, and that's smart because that's my power as
a voting citizen. If I just willy-nilly back Conway in the election,
then I have given up my leverage, my power. On the other hand, if I
approach Conway (as a citizen), and said that I didn't know which
candidate I was going to vote for, Conway would have to win me over
by saying why he's better than Young. I can push for the issues I
believe the most strongly in, and then, I'd have influence. But if I
just hand my vote over breezily, Conway will take me for granted, and
won't find it necessary to go the extra mile to win me over.
Many Democratic politicians act
Republican-lite. That's a losing strategy. Mitch beat that strategy.
Obama won by being more Progressive than Hillary. Also,
unfortunately, we get what we vote for. I'd rather vote for somebody
I believe in, and not get that, than to vote for somebody I don't
believe in, and winning that. Something Asher Platts posted the other
day: “It drives me nuts that the thing Greens have to overcome
isn't to convince people of our policies, but to convince people who
know that they are voting against their own interests to vote for
what they want. It's like seeing people hit themselves in the face
with a hammer, and when you point out that they don't have to hit
themselves in the face, they say, “well I could be hitting myself
in the face with an anvil instead, and I don't want that to happen!
I'll stick with the hammer, thanks.””
Geoff Young's opponent needs to adopt
most of Young's platform for him to win me over. For right now, I see
that Conway has only 3 small Progressive issues I agree
with—Abortion, Minimum Wage, and the Employee Free Choice Act—and
a whole host of despicable Republican policies I have serious
reservations about.
Geoff Young's opponent is more
Republican than Democrat, and I will only vote for a Democrat whose
proud to be liberal, proud to be a Democrat, through and through.
Both Republicans and Democrats need to become Democrats. If Democrats
try to out-Republican the Republicans, they will lose, and I will not
vote for the lesser of the two evils. I'd rather write in my own
name, if it wasn't already on the ballot. It's time for Democrats to
become Democrats again.
Geoff Young is the only authentic
pro-working class families Democrat running for Kentucky's Governor
in 2015.
I will also determine how Young's
opponent squares up next to Drew Curtis. If Drew Curtis is more
Progressive than Young's opponent, then my vote will go to Curtis.
That's also assuming none of the Republicans do an 180 degree “about
face”, and adopt many of the Progressive policies I strongly
believe in.
It's also assuming that Goliath wins.
The GOP have a generic lead over the
Democrats 48% - 43%. Both James Comer and Hal Heiner are beating
Geoff Young's opponent in the polls. If the Governor's election were
to happen today, right now, Republicans James Comer and Hal Heiner
would thump Geoff Young's opponent. Will T. Scott and Matt Bevin
would only barely lose to Geoff Young's opponent. Young has said it
many times: Jack Conway is a sure loser.
http://www.runswitchpr.com/runswitch-pr-releases-2015-gubernatorial-campaign-results/
Email Geoff at his personal email:
Friend Geoff on Facebook here:
Try to get #kygub15 trending on
Twitter!:
Young4Governor Youtube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7HOf5x0OC13IhRSLaK9FGw
Campaign Email:
Check out the Campaign's Facebook page:
Campaign Blog:
Kentucky Stats and Facts:
Geoff's Phone Number: 859.278.4966
My Phone Number: 270.863.0981
If Geoff Young's opponent does not want
to debate, we cannot force him to do so. Instead, we're working on
getting funding for a 120 county campaign.
We could also use graphic designers,
video editors, fundraisers, a campaign manager, and documentarians.
Your Humble and Obedient Servant,
Johnathan Masters
Candidate for Lt. Governor
The peaceful Revolution that is set
upon the foundation of democratic legitimacy and a new Constitution
will last forever.
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