The Arena: Senate President David Williams (R) won’t go to court over House adjournment
Matt Gunterman July 6th, 2007
The Courier-Journal’s political blog, The Arena, has this interesting nugget today:
Williams: I won’t take matter to courts
Senate President David Williams, R-Burkesville, said at 7:35 p.m. that he would not be party to taking the matter of agreement on adjourning special session to court.
After the House adjourned sine die this afternoon, there has been debate over whether the House must return in three days if the Senate also does not adjourn.
“I will not be a party to using the court system to try to force the other body back into any active role,” Williams said.
He said instead, he urges the House members to cool off over the weekend and return on Monday.
Senate Minority Floor Leader Ed Worley said he blames the governor’s lack of leadership for what transpired today.
“This thing has reached a point that it is over unless the governor shows the leadership to get the House and the Senate leadership together and move these issues forward,” Worley said.
What do you think? I myself have to say that Senate President David William (R) telling House Dems to cool their jets over the weekend is about as tepid a response from that man as you can get. In fact, on the Larry Forgy Political Seismography Scale (which is the metric used to measure these sorts of Republican responses in Kentucky), I’d rate that about a 2.0 at best.
Where’s the passion for your governor David Williams? Where’s your anger and sense of betrayal? Why aren’t you sticking up for ol’ Ernie?
- David Williams , Ernie Fletcher , Special Session
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So, was the “Big One” for Forgy that KERA ad he did right before the election in 1995. You know, that ad that probably cost him the election. If I remember correctly, he was trying to appeal to the fundamentalist base before that base was really all that organized. It really scared the crap out of the rest of us. I wish I had a copy of that ad, but all I remember is him being on a porch or outside, discussing the education reform and how it was essentially an atheist/socialist plot to destroy Kentucky values.
I myself wasn’t politically aware in 1995. I can’t contribute to this discussion.