Saturday, February 7, 2015

Geoff Young Wins 3rd Gubernatorial Forum in a Row!


On January 23, 2015, Geoff Young won the Kentucky Press Forum. In spite of there being 30 reporters in the room, only one person wrote anything about it. On Twitter.

This last Tuesday, at the Realtor's Forum on February 3, 2015, Young finished the forum by slamming all 4 Republican candidates who just spoke before him, thusly, taking home the crown.

At the Disabilities Forum in Frankfort on February 5, 2015, Geoff Young offered intelligent, thoughtful, and novel solutions to Kentucky's problems. With Young's deep understanding of the issues, and a passion for uplifting and elevating Kentucky, Young's Presidential qualities outshined all of the rest.

Currently, there's 874,000 disabled people in Kentucky, which represents Kentucky's biggest “minority”.

The Forum started and ended beautifully. In the beginning, a disabled woman passionately gave her plea that helping her to achieve was a good investment. At the end, a disabled boy sang “My Ole Kentucky Home” angelically.

James Comer's Lieutenant Governor was there, and he said a few words before going back to the Statehouse to possibly pass some laws for this year's Summer camp at Frankfort. The state legislature has to work on stuff for about a month, and then they recess until the real work of passing a budget is accomplished next year (biennially), which also usually takes about a month. Sometimes, we have government representatives who work two months out of the year, but that's rare.

Will T. Scott and Geoff Young were two dueling candidates, going back and forth, intermittently, answering different questions, asked of them by the moderators. Both of the candidates honed their message to fit the forum about disabilities.

Will T. Scott, an ex-Supreme Court Justice, told Kentucky that he loved us all. It was a nice feeling. Will T. Scott is Kentucky, through and through, and he's a Populist. Will T. Scott speaks the best out of all of the candidates. At the Realtor's Forum, Scott didn't use the microphone or the podium. He captured our attention by his disposition, the forcefulness of his nature. He puts on a compelling spectacle. Scott speaks from the heart, and is thoroughly, through and through, a Kentuckian. Will T. Scott has a 55 page economic plan written, and up on his website, for the world to see. He's the only one I know of with a plan for a Kentucky. I'm sure it's worth taking a glimpse at. It may be where Kentucky is heading in the next 4 years. 55 pages is a bunch of pages.

Geoff Young, an ex-environmental state worker—Kentucky's version of a mixture between Noam Chomsky and Fred Tuttle—told Kentucky that the biggest problem facing us is the Republican Class War.

Will T. Scott quoted some scripture. “Jesus said, 'that what you do the least of my brethren, you do unto me.'”

Geoff Young said that Kentucky's economic forecast was in danger of being a 3rd world country, like in Central America, alluding to the Banana Republics.

Will T. Scott wants to climb the top of a mountain with Kentuckians, and we all need to get there together. Will T. Scott kept referring to Kentucky's “bucket, that's leaking”, and how us Kentuckians need to help Scott fix the leaking bucket. Geoff Young said that Scott wanted to drill the hole in the bucket bigger.

Will T. Scott didn't say if he would cut Medicaid or not, though he did mention that there's $800 million dollar shortfall for Kentucky's Medicaid this year.

Young believed that Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell would filibuster the ADA (The Americans with Disabilities Act https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l7A8VBrqa8) to death if it were a bill introduced to today's Congress.

Young said that in the headlines that morning (2-5-15), the Republicans tried to shut ObamaCare down for the 56th time. Geoff Young said that passing ObamaCare in Kentucky was the most courageous things Steve Beshear did during his administration. Young wanted the public option, of expanding ObamaCare, especially since Kynect has been such a huge success (over 600,000 signed up last year). Young is in favor of single-payer healthcare. Geoff Young said he would cut out waste in the government. Young said he wants Kentucky to have a single-payer healthcare system, since “healthcare is a human right”.

Geoff Young said the ideology of the Republican Party is his real opponent, not Jack Conway. Young said he couldn't tell the difference between all of the Republicans with a microscope.

Geoff Young said he would tax the rich, particularly the 1%. Young also said that the Unions would put more money in the pockets of the middle, working, and poor classes—the 99%—of Kentucky. Young said that the 3 biggest special interests that the Republican party served were the “super-rich, the ultra-super rich, and billionaires”.

Will T. Scott spoke briefly about his economic plan he's laid out for Kentucky. While it's hard to distinguish if his plan holds muster, it's important that he at least has a plan. Scott is light years in front of the other monied candidates.

Will T. Scott said he supported expanding background checks of caregivers for the disabled.

Both Scott and Young agree that the Sale Tax is a regressive tax, which means it hits the poor, working, and middle classes the hardest.

Will T. Scott said that being a Democrat or a Republican didn't matter, because the economic problems in Kentucky were created by Paul Patton and Steve Beshear, both Democratic Governors.

Will T. Scott's mother died last September.

On Brain Injuries, Young pointed out that there were 1 million disabled combat vets of the Iraq War in America. Because of Jack Conway's immoral position on Iraq for 8 years, Young leveled Conway to be “unfit” to lead, due to Jack's lack of moral clarity on the Iraq War.

Rand Paul is opposed to the ADA (The American Disabilities Act).

On the War on Drugs, Young said he was opposed to it. Young was in favor of increased funding for drug addicts, but believed addiction was a public health issue, not a criminal issue. Will T. Scott said that he too, was focused on the treatment of addicts, but pointed out that his legacy was creating Drug Courts, and he wants to expand those courts to include juveniles. Will T. Scott also said that the State should pay for families who turn on their own, who out one of their own members of being addicts, or mentally insane, to be faced with criminal restrictions. While this law is currently in place, the biggest impediment of it's implementation, is that the families who lynch their own, also have to pay for the rehabilitation. It seems that some families seem to only care enough to turn on themselves, but few care enough to pay to fix the problem.

Will T. Scott said that Kentucky was in debt $34 Billion. I've read $45 and $86 Billion dollars, so Will T. Scott's quote sounds much smaller.

Kentucky's GDP is $171B, and if Kentucky were to take the debt-to-GDP ratio that Japan has, then we could have debt over $342B, and still be able to balance our budget.

$34B is manageable.

Will T. Scott mentioned that he was a trial lawyer, and he made some company fix some water problems. Will T. Scott got his life lessons from the school of hard knocks, not a degree from Massachusetts.

Unions are players in the free market too.



Adam Beam and Joe Gerth pretended as if Geoff Young hadn't shown up to the Realtor's Forum, and/or didn't say anything of value, or that had any impact: http://www.enquirerherald.com/2015/02/03/3364428/republican-governor-candidates.html Adam Beam is a member of the Associated Press. The Courier-Journal and the Associated Press pass articles to each other.

In 1984, at Orwell's Ministry of Truth, one would need to be ordered to censor another person's life. In America, censorship is done by choice.

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