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From The Louisville Courier-Journal: Bevin, Gill Holland and others would have to show tax returns under new law

Berry Craig
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By PHILIP M. BAILEY

Former House Speaker Jeff Hoover wants a law requiring Kentucky candidates seeking statewide office to show voters their tax returns.

The move is likely to be seen as a dig at Gov. Matt Bevin, who broke a long-held tradition by declining to show Kentuckians his tax returns.

The two Republicans have been publicly at odds for longer than a year, going back to when Hoover slammed Bevin's criticism of teachers during the debate over pension reform and the fallout from Hoover's sexual harassment scandal, when Bevin called for Hoover to resign from the legislature.

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