Lexington Herald-Leader: Intoxicated by their own power.’ Will the Kentucky General Assembly go too far?
By LINDA BLACKFORD
The 2022 General Assembly is the first budget session in modern Kentucky history with a Republican supermajorities in both houses. And boy, did they throw themselves a party.
It was an orgy of right-wing fantasies, a wild smorgasbord of Republican wish lists on abortion, taxes, CRT and charter schools, with extra screw yous to teachers, transgender kids, women and girls, public libraries and many rural folks who put the legislators in office in the first place. It looked like bingo cards from ALEC, the Heritage Foundation and the Koch brothers got filled all at once.