Stan Lee’s Hate-Fundraiser-Session a Goner

Joe Sonka July 6th, 2007

Well, the gratuitously calculating government welfare special session called by Gov. Ernie Fletcher fortunately appears to be dead and gone. Especially displeased must be the opportunist homophobe Stan Lee, who would have loved to try to block UK and UL’s domestic partnership benefits. Stan was surely hoping to give rousing floor speeches and press releases about how the gays were trying to destroy marriage and corrupt our youth with their filthy ways. Following that, he would have opened up the coffers to every fundamentalist extremist/gay hater in the state, rallying them to fight Teh Gay behind their mustached crusader.

Fortunately, the House Democrats stood their ground and nixed the Peabody-Gov’t welfare session. And Ned Flanders will have to find some creative new way to fleece the fundies of their money.

(crossposted at BlueGrassRoots)

6 Responses to “Stan Lee’s Hate-Fundraiser-Session a Goner”

  1. # Jordan Palmer, Kentucky Equality Federationon 06 Jul 2007 at 11:30 am

    I especially enjoy your posts about the homophobic Stan Lee, and your post today about him.

    I was sad when Mark (bluegrassreport.org) decided to leave. Though not everyone always agreed with him, he definitely gave you something to think about.

    BlueGrassRoots is by far the best (and maybe the only) political blog standing between us and the conservative rightwing. I simply wanted to tell you to keep up the good work. We have a link to BlueGrassRoots from our blog, blog.commonwealth-equality.org for our readers. I think it is critical that Kentucky have specific blogs related to its internal politics, and that as many people know about them as possible.

    I just noticed that comments cannot be post at BlueGrassRoots, the email address listed is invalid, and most of the blog links no longer work. I hope you will correct this and maintain this wonderful blog.

  2. # Joe Sonkaon 06 Jul 2007 at 11:37 am

    thanks Jordan. btw, BlueGrassRoots appears to be working just fine, don’t know what that’s all about. We’ll be upgrading the site soon, but it hasn’t started yet.

  3. # Joe Sonkaon 06 Jul 2007 at 12:01 pm

    also check out HillyBillyReport… and link DitchMitchKY!!! :)

  4. # Terrion 06 Jul 2007 at 12:02 pm

    http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070706/NEWS01/70706014

    Check out the comment below the article - someone said they spoke to a Peabody rep. and that Peabody wasn’t even considering anywhere else. Speculative, of course, but still interesting.

  5. # Matt Guntermanon 06 Jul 2007 at 12:26 pm

    Yes, Terri, it’s confirmed I believe that one of the plants that Peabody is proposing was only considered for Kentucky, but there are other projects that are being thrown around. The whole affair is being kept nebulous to confuse the issue in Fletcher’s favor.

  6. # CoolerKingon 06 Jul 2007 at 7:50 pm

    Terri:

    The Herald-Leader folks have done some good reporting about this on their blog, Pol Watchers. They confirmed that yes, Kentucky is the only state being considering for a coal-to-liquid plant. But there’s a separate synthetic natural gas facility under consideration.

    I agree with Matt’s assessment about it “being kept nebulous to confuse the issue.”

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