Kentucky "right-to-work" opponent switches to GOP

[Bandit3 the Worker]

State Rep. Denny Butler of Louisville has switched from Democratic to Republican. It's unclear why, since he lives in a Democratic area, and has opposed "right-to-work" laws.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

State Rep. Denny Butler of Louisville has switched from Democratic to Republican. It's unclear why, since he lives in a Democratic area, and has opposed "right-to-work" laws.

Louisville isn't that Democratic, pal.

Jack Conway won Butler's district with 56%.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Another Democrat Representative, Tanya Pullin, has resigned to take a job offer:

http://m.dailyindependent.com/news/pullin-appointed-to-law-judge-position/article_a22cfa78-a39c-11e5-9c9e-bb13381f8faf.html?mode=jqm

One more such departure and control of the House of Representatives is potentially at stake, if the Republicans sweep all the special elections.

This might not be a big problem except that I don't have much faith in the Democrats actually fighting for these seats. If they actually fought, they wouldn't have lost other seats.

Nonetheless, Romney didn't carry Tilley's district by an overpowering margin, so that one could stay Democratic if people actually bother to vote. I could actually see Quarles's seat flipping back to the Democrats if people, you know, voted.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

They said the special election probably won't be until March, so the Democrats have months to straighten up. I'm not confident that they will, since they don't even have a challenger to Thomas Massie yet!

[Bandit3 the Worker]

I wouldn't say Romney's or Obama's percentages are the best indicators of how local Democrats will do in KY.

The Democrats still do much, much better at the local and state level than at the federal level. I don't know if it's enough to save them, when they don't fight for it.

The Kentucky GOP is beatable, but their scandals have to be highlighted. There was a Republican official in eastern Kentucky who was beaten by 3-to-1 once his scandals came to light. The problem is that the Democrats usually don't have the guts to capitalize on Republican scandals.