Governor Fletcher Gets Mail

Kentucky's Speaker of the House Jody Richard's letter to Governor Ernie Fletcher regarding the canceling of Fletcher's special session. Linked from The Bridge:
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Speaker Richards Letter to Governor Fletcher

July 9, 2007

The Honorable Governor Ernie Fletcher
700 Capitol Ave., Suite 100
Frankfort, KY 40601
VIA HAND DELIVERY

Dear Governor Fletcher:
I have received your July 6th letter calling my attention to Friday's testimony before the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee. What was striking about the testimony is it was the first and only effort by you to attempt to justify calling an extraordinary session to attract only a coal to natural gas project to Kentucky.

If this were truly the emergency warranting a special session, why did you wait until Friday to try to make your case for immediate action on this project? Pursuing coal to liquids to reduce our dependence on foreign oil now seems like a distant memory. It is almost as if the Northern Kentucky hearings never happened.

I was also bemused by your sudden willingness to remove local projects and other purportedly urgent items from your call. I would have thought that if they were not truly emergencies, you would have left them off your call in the first place. The inconsistencies and contradictions areso numerous that it is becoming difficult to keep track of them.

Continue.

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