Forward Kentucky: Inch by inch, Repubs are eroding democracy in Frankfort
By BRUCE MAPLES
For some time, I have maintained that even though the Republicans in the General Assembly often file really bad bills, they are not as bad as the anti-democracy right-wing Repubs in Washington, or even in other states. After all, they haven’t filed the voter-suppression bills we’ve seen in other states. Nor have they passed a bill demanding an audit of the 2020 election. (Of course, as Berry Craig has pointed out to me more than once, they don’t do these things because they don’t need to. Let the Dems start creeping back toward parity, and watch the laws fly.)
I was discussing this with a leader in the Democratic party, and this person disagreed. Yes, they haven’t filed the same draconian bills that the Texas GOP has, this person said – but look at all the ways they are undermining democracy in Frankfort right now. Death by a thousand cuts is still death.