The Jefferson County Con Man

By BERRY CRAIG

AFT Local 1360 

Remember that Mitch-McConnell-for-senate campaign ad from 2014 that maligned Matt Bevin as an "east coast con man"?

Here's an update: "Jefferson County con man."

The governor's mansion -- the one in Anchorage, not Frankfort -- and the 10-acre spread that surrounds the ritzy digs are now valued at a cool $2.9 million, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal. That's a hefty $1.3 mill more than what a Bevin-owned business plunked down for the pad a tad more than a year ago, according to the C-J's Grace Schneider.

Added the scribe: "The 81 percent difference follows questions last year over the home's true value and whether Bevin got a sweetheart deal when he bought the seven-bedroom, 9,100-square-foot estate from friend and donor Neil Ramsey in March, 2017."

Like Bevin, like Trump, or maybe it's the other way around. Bevin got elected in 2015.

On the campaign trail, Bevin bloviated about "cleaning up the mess" in Frankfort. Trump touted "draining the swamp" in DC. 

The prez is up to his neck in muck, mire and mosquitoes as the white-collar crime boss of the most corrupt administration since Republican Warren G. Harding. "Wobbly Warren" was a fellow philanderer, too, even enjoying White House trysts with his paramour.

Based on how he finagled his villa, Bevin, Kentucky's proto-Trump, could give Trump lessons on "the art of the (sweetheart) deal."