KY: Beshear wins endorsement from Fraternal Order of Police

[RINO Tom]

https://www.apnews.com/225c52937e4d488ebecf04f0a72b192e

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andy Beshear has won an endorsement from the Kentucky State Fraternal Order of Police.

Beshear has stressed his record as attorney general in his campaign against Republican Gov. Matt Bevin. Beshear says he has worked with law enforcement on his top goals.

Beshear points to his efforts to prosecute child sex offenders, clear the rape kit backlog, combat human trafficking, stop senior scams and battle the drug epidemic.

The Democratic challenger says he’s committed to fully funding pensions for law enforcement officials, and says he’ll fight for policies to keep communities safe.

Bevin’s campaign says the governor’s support for law enforcement has included protecting funding for training and pushing for better pay for officers.

In reviewing candidates, FOP official Drew Fox says conversations focused on pensions, benefits and officers’ safety.

Note that Democrats rarely win endorsements from police unions and that the national Fraternal Order of Police endorsed Trump in 2016.

This won't make any difference. Beshear is still well on his way to defeat in November. Does anyone really think that Kentucky voters will care about this endorsement?

They care more about the imaginary illegal immigrants from Latin America that will swarm the state if Beshear is elected, as evidenced by Bevin’s effective new ad riling up the racists

Even if quite literally every word you said is true, it’s sad most posters now sound like this in 80% of topics.  This isn’t analysis, regardless of truth.

[RINO Tom]

LMAO , if Appalachia was so racist why did they trend D in the 1970s and 1980s while the Deep South Trended Hard R(It was more D relative to the Nation in 1988 compared to 1968).

The Reagan administration was viewed as anti-union, especially after the crackdown on the air traffic controllers’ strike in 1981. Back then, union membership in Appalachia was quite high so this should easily explain the D trend there at least in that decade. It also explains why Reagan/Bush tended to run well behind their statewide numbers in the Appalachian parts of states like KY, OH, PA and VA.

The point he’s making is worth noting.  Democrats weren’t like *open* about having any “racist” voters in 2012 or 2008 or 1994 or 1980 or any other year.  It’s only once voters leave their team are they appropriately labeled as amoral, subhuman trash, lol.  If their words rang hollow when I was on this site in 2012 or 2004 when I was growing up or 1980 when my parents were watching politics unfold ... what’s the point in listening to them yap about it in every thread now?  If rural Blacks shift 10% Republican in the next ten years, we’ll be reading some of these psychopaths talking about how “Yeah, there USED to be some way-too-religious, under-educated homophobe bumpkins from AL and MS in our party, but that was way back in 2018!  Trends have really accelerated since then.”  I’ll wait until 20xx when the Democratic Party is fully *perfect* to give a shlt about the type of “analysis” that is as intellectually stimulating as “Black voters in Chicago would never vote Republican because they’re an assortment of adjectives I find despicable.”

That elementary BS belongs on other sites, regardless of who’s President.

[RINO Tom]

Well, 739 posts, it didn’t used to be this bad, so thanks for your contributions.