The Andrew Cooperrider Show

The GA commits another $100 million to support the Ford Battery Plant. There is a tiff on the West End TIF. Beshear shows he doesn’t understand what emergency spending actually means. We go through a few more of the Governor’s vetoes.

I answer a listener question regarding campaign surveys. Outgoing state Senator Whitney Westerfield is getting a strange new respect from the media. HB509 is making the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Beshear vetoes a good number of bills.

The carrot and stick system of the Uni-party is on full display this primary. The Southern Poverty Law Center makes a hefty accusation that the Herald-Leader can not confirm but writes an article about anyway. Finally, I give an update on my court case.

Eights years ago, Republicans in the House voted for less spending and sponsored more conservative legislation. This fact points to just why the Republican primaries matters so much. The JCPS teacher’s union is throwing big money behind liberal Republicans this cycle.

Recent storm damage makes it clear why KY needs to have a good savings policy at the state level. VisitLex is massively over paying employees, leading to the question of “What does VisitLex do anyway?”. Beshear says we are starving schools from money, but recent data suggests the opposite.

Beshear is buying favor with politicians across the country using his PAC. I continue looking at the one-time spending package and we discuss a few line items that raises the eyebrows.

I start digging into HB1, a one-time spending bill full of questionable spending. Today I focus on $50 million going to Louisville for a variety of projects and $10 million going to a housing project in Lexington.

Many media outlets get a SB2 amendment wrong because of tricks played by leadership in the house that go far outside the norm. I take a look at the budget and a few other issues that point to how this legislative session made everyone mad.

As the legislative session veto period starts, I take a quick look at a few things that made it across the line in the final days.

A bill to ban vaccine mandates hits the Senate Floor, and all kinds of cray arguments against the bill are thrown out there. I also go over a few other bills of note that have passed so far this year.

On Monday, the most significant moment so far this legislative session played out in the KY House. Republican Leadership in the house decide to ignore key parts of the Kentucky Constitution in order to stop a bill from passing. The bill in question would have required the porn industry to take greater steps to ensure their content doesn’t get delivered to minors. I go over what happened, and why i...

There is just 4 days left of this year’s legislative session, and there are a lot of bills moving. In today’s show I go over bills that have passed at least one chamber. These bills need our attention if we want to either stop, or get them over the finish line.

In today’s show I go over a few pieces of legislation and dig into some arguments surrounding HB 5. Local schools and libraries continue to use our tax dollars to shove LGBTQ ideology down kid’s throats. #Kentucky #KYGA24 #Politics

SB 147 is a straightforward bill that regulates adult oriented businesses. Despite the simple nature of the bill, Democrats in Kentucky took big issue with protecting children from nudity. Veterans asked the Legislature to pass HB 39, but now the lobbyist have made the bill so awful they want it stopped.

Today, I dig into the last two of the three finalists for the top spot at the Kentucky Board of Education. We discover that both have some big issues, including one having been accused of being involved with the grooming of a high school girl.

The Legislature decides to take it easy for a day on committee hearings. Democrat Rep. Nima Kulkarni may be disqualified from running for reelection. The Kentucky BOE has landed on three finalists for the top spot. Today we will go over some questions regarding one of the finalists, Buddy Berry.

The votes and conversations on two bills from the Senate Standing Committee on Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor points to exactly why we can’t get conservative fiscal policy done in Kentucky. Pamela Stevenson gives a nonsense yelling floor speech, and the Leftist love it.

The House passes SB6 to get rid of racist and unconstitutional DEI initiatives at KY public colleges. The Democrats in the House decide to invent their own reality in their attacks on this bill. I also go over a few other pieces of legislation that has been on the move in the KY Legislature. #KYga24 #Ketnucky #Politics #DeiMustEnd

The Senate passes the budget with $2 billion more in spending. I go over the school choice floor debate, which takes an odd left turn at slavery. Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife may be moved over to the Agriculture Commissioner.

Lexington City Council Woman, Tonya Fogle, speaks out after she is arrested at an AT&T store. The House Education Committee passes a boondoggle bill that is a case study in how lobbyists run our government. Finally, I go over the School Choice Amendment that passed the House yesterday.

Our Legislators show us time and time again that their inability to just admit they were wrong is leading to awful legislative outcomes. Several bills are being pushed for the government to get more involved with our children. Many elected legislators are calling for government education to start at birth. The House passes a bill banning many e-cigarettes from being sold to adults in Kentucky.

Lexington City Council Woman, Tayna Fogle, was arrested after throwing a hissy fit in a cell phone store. Julia Jaddock, a candidate for SD 17, joins the show to talk about why she is running. The Kentucky House makes it clear that the government is mostly interested in protecting itself when it makes protesting too loudly a felony.

KY Senator Tichenor lays out the history of normalizing pedophile and Republican Leadership isn’t getting it or doesn’t care. Democrats walk out of a committee hearing on a bill to provide resources to parents of children with unknown viability. Finally, I go over what everyone is missing on the Sen. Britt SOTU response.

In today’s show I go through some legislation that is on the move in the Kentucky Legislature. #Ketnucky #Politics

Rep. Bill Wesley is under fire from The Establishment. The Kentucky House passes a bill that elevates the punishment for abusing a pet past that of abusing a child. U of L wants $25 million for a cancer treatment center. The Herald-Leader continues to show us why people don’t buy their paper. #Kentucky #Politics #ProtectChildren