Matthew Griswold Bevin (born January 9, 1967) is an American businessman and politician who served as the 62nd Governor of Kentucky and is now from 2015. He is the 3rd elected Governor from the Kentucky Republican Party since World War II, after Ernie Fletcher (2003-2007) and Louie B. Nunn (1967-1971).
Born in Denver, Colorado, and raised in Shelburne, New Hampshire, Bevin earned a bachelor's degree in Washington and Lee University in 1989, then served four years of active duty in the US Army, reaching the rank of captain. He became wealthy in the investment business and moved to Louisville, Kentucky, in 1999. In 2011, he became president of Bevin Brothers Manufacturing Company, the remaining American bell manufacturer. When Bevin took over, the business, which had been in his family since it was founded in 1832, was struggling and on the verge of closing. Bevin revived the company and restored its profitability.
In 2013, Bevin announced he would challenge the senior US Senator Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in Republican primary 2014. Although he had the support of various groups in tune with the Tea Party Movement, McConnell attacked him repeatedly due to inconsistencies in public statements and its policy position and beat it almost 25 percent points. After announcing he will seek governor in 2015, Bevin emerged from a four-party Republican general, defeating his closest competitor, Commissioner of Agriculture James Comer with 83 votes. On November 3, 2015, he defeated state attorney general, Democrat Jack Conway, in an election.
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Early life and education
Born January 9, 1967, in Denver, Colorado, Matt Bevin was the second of six children born to Avery and Louise Bevin. He grew up in the rural town of Shelburne, New Hampshire, in a small farmhouse heated by a firewood stove. His father works in a wood factory, and his mother works part-time at the hospital admissions department. The family reared cattle and planted many of their own food. At age 6, Bevin made money by packing and selling seeds to his neighbors. He acknowledges his involvement in 4-H, in which he serves as the president of the local and district branches and as a member of the country's youth council, by developing his speech and public leadership skills. He is also involved with the county Milk Club.
Initially attending a small Christian school, in the tenth grade Bevin enrolled as a student at Gould Academy, a private high school across the state line in Bethel, Maine. She pays her school fees through a combination of financial help and wages from the dishwashing work on campus and various summer jobs. After graduation, he attended Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, on a partial ROTC scholarship. During matriculation, he studied abroad in Japan and became fluent in Japanese. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in East Asian Studies in 1989.
After spending eight weeks to complete a 3,800 mile (6,100 km) bike ride from Oregon to Florida, Bevin enrolled in the United States Army and was assigned as a second lieutenant. In 1990, he completed a six-week Junior Staff Maintenance Course at Fort Knox in Kentucky. He then remarks that the area reminds him where he grew up, and that if he has a chance to nurture a family there, he wants to do it. He was assigned to the Field Artillery Regiment 25 of the Army's 5th Infantry Division at Fort Polk in Louisiana. During his assignment, he also trained at Fort Sill in Oklahoma, completing 40 credit hours of courses at Central Michigan University offered at the base. He rose to the rank of captain - earned an Army Achievement Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Army Service Ribbon, Parachutist Badge, and Army Medal with one Leaf Oak Cluster - before joining the Army Reserve in 1993. He left Individual Ready Backup at 2003.
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Marriage and family
When placed at Fort Polk, Bevin went on a blind date with his future wife, Glenna. Both were married in 1996 and have six children. In 2003, their eldest son, a 17-year-old girl, Brittiney, was killed in a car accident near a family home. To commemorate their daughter, Bevins created Brittiney's Wish, a nonprofit organization that funded domestic and international travel missions for high school students, and embarked on a blessing that would allow Louisville Southern Baptist Theological Seminary to open the Bevin Center for Missions Mobilization in 2012.
In 2011, Bevin took all his children out of school for a year to tour 26,000 miles (42,000 km) in the United States, visit educational sites or historical interests, including Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where Martin Luther King, Jr. killed and the Topeka Schoolhouse, Kansas, at the center of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education the decision of the Supreme Court. After their application to adopt a daughter from Kentucky's foster system was denied because they already had five children, Bevins adopted four children - between the ages of 2 and 10 years - from Ethiopia in June 2012. By 2015, Bevin says all her children are studying at home. In order to avoid disruption in children's schools, Bevin's chose not to move to the Kentucky Governor's Mansion soon after Bevin's election as governor in November 2015 instead of waiting until after the school year ends in August 2016. The eleven member Bevin's family is the largest inhabitant since it was built in 1914. The family also maintains a pre-election house in Louisville.
Bevins attended the Southeast Christian Church in Louisville. After being elected governor, he announced he would hold an invitation-only inauguration service at Buck Run Frankfort Baptist Church, but the service was transferred to the Frankfort Convention Center and an invitation requirement was dropped after an "overwhelming response from the public".
Business career
After leaving active duty in 1993, Bevin worked as a financial consultant for SEI Investments Company in Pennsylvania and Boston, then served as vice president with Putnam Investments. In 1999, he was offered a stake in National Asset Management and moved to Kentucky to take the job. After the company was sold in 2003, Bevin recruited a group of managers from National City Corp. to find Integrity Asset Management. The company handled more than $ 1 billion in investment when Bevin sold it to Munder Capital Management of Michigan in 2011.
In 2008, Bevin took over the struggling management of the Bevin Brothers Manufacturing Company in East Hampton, Connecticut. Founded in 1832 by Bevin's great-grandfather and has remained in the family continuously ever since, Bevin Bros. is the last American company to exclusively produce bells. In 2011, the company owed $ 116,000 in delinquent taxes and was named the number one obsolete tax company in East Hampton. Collectively, Bevins decides that Matt is the only family member with business acumen and financial means to keep the company solvent. In 2011, Bevin became president of the company. Within a year, he pays taxes on corporate arrears; he then makes the company profitable and raises the salaries of his employees.
A lightning strike ignited a fire that destroyed the plant on May 27, 2012. Although it carries a bit more than business responsibility insurance and its losses are compounded by looters who stole 4,500 bells, Bevin vows to rebuild, tells Hartford Courant , "I'm Bevin, and Bevins makes a bell." At the end of June 2012, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy announced that Bevin Brothers would receive $ 100,000 in grants from the country's Small Business Express program to assist in the rebuilding efforts. Flanked by Senator Richard Blumenthal, Bevin announced in July 2012 that he would sell souvenirs including T-shirts, and bells and bricks rescued from a broken factory to raise additional funds to rebuild. Working from a temporary location, the company restarted limited production in September 2012.
Bevin is also a partner at Waycross Partners, an investment management firm in Louisville, Kentucky.
Political campaign
Bevin said that in 2011, Mitch McConnell recruited him to challenge the ruling Democratic John Yarmuth to represent the 3rd congress district in 2012. McConnell's chief of staff said Bevin requested a meeting and McConnell never asked Bevin to join the race. Finally, Bevin and his advisers decided that the legislative redistrict had made the Yarmuth district unlawful for a Republican, and Bevin chose not to run.
2014 US Senate campaign
On July 24, 2013, Bevin announced that he would challenge McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader and the five-time petahana, in Republicans 2014 because he did not believe that McConnell was conservative enough. Despite the Wenzel Strategies poll immediately after Bevin's announcement that he polled only 19.9% ​​to McConnell 58.9%, the National Journal noted McConnell number nine in a list of ten lawmakers who could lose major elections in the year 2014.
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McConnell launched an advertisement that accused Bevin of taking a taxpayer bailout, citing his acceptance of a state grant to rebuild Bevin Brothers. Bevin responded with advertisements that accused McConnell of voting for higher taxes, government bailouts, rising debt ceilings, and confirmation of would-be liberal judges. McConnell's next advertisement featured Bevin telling the audience "I have no tax liability issues, nor ever," then claimed his business had failed to pay taxes eight times and Bevin was late on a $ 1.2 million tax payment at his vacation home in Greenwood, Maine. , in 2007. PolitiFact.com rates the advertisement "Mostly Wrong", saying that Bevin Brothers issues tax arrears in 2008 and the second quarter of 2009, when Bevin's engagement rate with the company was "unclear". Regarding holiday homes, PolitiFact noted that Bevin's escrow company changed in 2007, and the new company failed to pay property taxes at home from escrow on time. The city records indicate that taxes were paid in February 2009, and Bevin paid them on time every year before and after 2007. McConnell's third advertisement in a few weeks targeted Bevin to mis-claim on his LinkedIn page that he attended a seminar affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The three-year program, which Bevin attended from 2006 to 2008, is actually sponsored by the MIT Enterprise Forum, which is technically not affiliated with MIT. This discrepancy was first reported by The Hill in March 2013, and was clarified on its LinkedIn page at the time.
In mid-October 2013, McConnell's campaign indicated he would look beyond Bevin and focus his advertising against Alison Lundergan Grimes, a pioneer in the Democratic senator's nomination, calling him "my real opponent". In the aftermath of McConnell negotiating a deal to end the 16-day government closure in 2013, the Senate Conservative Fund endorsed Bevin. The McConnell campaign then launched another ad, based on a story published by BuzzFeed, claiming that Bevin had failed to disclose a federal lien tax when applying for a state grant to rebuild his family business, which could be a Class A crime, which could be punished up to years in prison and a $ 2,000 fine under Connecticut law. Bevin said that he had paid the lien in an $ 5,000 installment before a fire that destroyed the business, a condition he said was allowed by the grant application, but after the fire, the Internal Revenue Service suspended payments. Bevin was never charged. Lexington's Herald-Leader columnist Sam Youngman speculates that McConnell's axis back to Bevin is a proxy war against the Tea Party fund raising group, hoping that a decisive victory over their candidate in the primary will hinder group fundraising at upcoming elections..
During the campaign, Bevin criticized the Affordable Care Act and called for canceling it entirely. The proposed alternatives include allowing insurance providers to compete across borders, limiting the damage provided to pain and suffering, allowing individuals to purchase health insurance with pre-tax income, and granting federal grants to states to enable them to cover individuals with that already existed. condition. He opposes tax increases and federal earmarks allocations. He called for massive spending cuts in the federal bureaucracy, in particular the Department of Education and Veterans Administration, and to reform the eligibility requirements for rights programs, including increasing age requirements, imposing meaningful tests, and ending federal benefits for illegal immigrants. He opposes US intervention in the Syrian Civil War and disbursed foreign aid to countries that deny basic freedoms to their citizens or are guilty of human rights abuses. He opposes federal agribusiness subsidies and endless federal scrutiny and calls for simplification of the adoption process of children. Supported by the Gun Owners of America, he promises to refuse restrictions on the types of weapons or ammunition that citizens can buy. As a supporter of the congressional deadline, Bevin signed a pledge made by the non-profit US Employment Borders stating that, if elected, he will co-sponsor and vote for a bill restricting individuals to three terms in the US House and two terms in the US Senate.
Bevin complains that McConnell refused to speak at any Lincoln Day event across the state if Bevin was also invited to speak at the event. McConnell also vigorously refused to participate in any formal debate with Bevin, although his campaign manager, Jesse Benton, debated Bevin at the Constitution Day event at the University of Kentucky in September 2013.
In January 2014, the conservative Madison Project political action committee announced it would open field offices in Louisville, Florence, Owensboro, Glasgow, and Bowling Green to initiate sound-out efforts on behalf of Bevin. The group also sponsored billboard advertisements that criticized McConnell in many areas of the Clay Republic, Laurel, Madison, Pulaski and Whitley. Bevin is supported by FreedomWorks and conservative radio speakers Mark Levin and Glenn Beck.
In February 2014, Politico reported that in October 2008, Bevin had signed a report for his investment fund that praised the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and the government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. During the campaign, Bevin criticized McConnell for choosing to support such acts as a senator. When Beck asked Bevin about the matter during the interview, Bevin said that the contents of the report had been written by the head of investment investment, and that he simply signed it because he was legally required to do so as president of the fund. Later, Bevin added that he did not physically sign the letter, but his signature was added to the document digitally. The attorney interviewed by Lexington Herald-Leader said it would be legal for Bevin to change the contents of the letter, but not the facts and financial data that accompany it. The Herald-Leader further notes that Bevin has not signed several previous investor mailings. His campaign offered no explanation for this inconsistency.
Both Bevin and McConnell were critical of the February 2014 ruling by US District Judge John G. Heyburn II stating that an amendment to the Kentucky Constitution that prohibits same-sex marriages violates the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution. Bevin points out that Heyburn once worked for McConnell, who supported his nomination to the bench by President George H. W. Bush. Later that month, Bevin told The Janet Mefford Show, "If it's okay to marry same sex, why not define marriage - because at the end of the day, much of this ends up being taxed and who who can visit who is in the hospital and there are other impacts and accompanying things - so someone may want to define themselves as being married to one of their children so they can then pass certain things to the child financially and vice versa. " Critics accuse Bevin of suggesting that same-sex marriage legalization may lead to acceptance of incest relations; Bevin's spokesperson replied, "[Bevin] does not see a comparison between gay marriage and incest He is discussing the implications of legal rights related to this issue like hospital visits and benefits, to say otherwise is ridiculous."
Incident cockfighting rally
On April 2, 2014, News Journal reported that Bevin was speaking at a pro-censor demonstration of chicken in Corbin, Kentucky. Asked about his presence, Bevin said that he understood that the rally was a state rights show: "I was the first to speak and then I left." The show's organizers, who were closed to the media, said there was "never any ambiguity" about its purpose, and WAVE in Louisville published a disguised video of the show that Bevin was the third speaker; the speaker who immediately preceded Bevin said that the rally was held "for the sole purpose of legalizing state-level gamecock battles." Bevin told the WAVE reporter, "I honestly did not even notice I was thinking about what I was going to say, I can not even remember him saying that." The WAVE video also showed a participant asking Bevin if he would support the legalization of cockfighting in Kentucky, which he replied, "I support the Kentucky people using their right, because it is our right to decide what we want to do, and not the government federalism. "Criminalizing behavior, if it's part of this country's heritage, I think it's a bad idea.It's a bad idea.I will not support it." Bevin refers to the Agricultural Act 2014, commonly called "agricultural bills", which contain criminalizing provisions audience in a chicken fight.
Scott Lasley, a professor of political science at Western Kentucky University and Warren County Republican chairman, criticized Bevin's appearance at a rally, saying, "Either they have not really been netted and are not ready for it, saying a lot about the campaign and its ability. compete at this level, or... they think that the message will accept or else you do not go there. "On April 25, 2014, Bevin apologized for attending the event, saying," I'm really sorry that my presence at an event which, in addition to my comments, seems to have primarily involved discussion of cockfighting, has raised concerns in many parts of Kentucky Voters I understand that I am neither and never a supporter of cock fighting or other forms of animal cruelty. " The Daily Beast says the problem could be a" nail in the coffin "for Bevin's campaign, while The Washi ngton Post wrote, "Own, the cockfight story is not enough to drown Bevin's campaign, but seen in the context of a series of other distractions he has to deal with, it reinforces the fact that his campaign is in serious need of improvement. â €
Results and after
When Bevin told the media, he would announce at his campaign headquarters on April 28, speculation raging that he would be out of the race. Instead, Bevin announced that he would release his work plan over the weekend and denounce the local media for focusing on issues other than the economy. On May 1, Bevin released the promised work plan, which called for a gradual reduction of the federal corporate tax rate to 10% over five years, allowing the company to return overseas profits to the United States with a 10% tax assessment, and part of the rights legislation for federal employment. Saying that aggravating regulations from agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency are dangerous for business ability to create jobs, he supports the REINS Act, which will require congressional approval of any executive regulation with an economic impact of more than $ 100 million. He also proposed a steady income tax and opposed the federal minimum wage increase.
Concerned about the difference in the party that weighs the McConnell party's seat in the general election, the Republican Party of Kentucky asks the two candidates to sign a pledge to support the party's final candidate in an election. McConnell signed the pledge, but Bevin did not. All Republican members of the Kentucky caucus caucus joined McConnell in signing a pledge except for the 4th District Congressman Thomas Massie, a legislator paralleling the Tea Party.
On election day, Bevin garnered 125,759 votes - 35.4% of the vote - for McConnell 213,666 votes (60.2%); the remaining votes are spread among three low profile candidates. In his concession speech, Bevin argued "there is no chance that a solution to our illness will come from the Democratic Party", but does not support McConnell. He appeared on stage with McConnell on several occasions during the election campaign but firmly refused to explicitly support him. In his speech at a Oct. 29 Restore America rally, Bevin said, "I say with all due respect to many people who may say otherwise, sometimes we may need to forget it and move on.We have a new race to run and new. Too much is at stake. "Asked whether the comments were as big as McConnell's support, Bevin told reporters," You have ears. " McConnell defeated Grimes in an election, and Bevin finally told reporters that he chose McConnell.
2015 principal governor
In June 2014, WKMS reported that Bevin remained politically active after his defeat by McConnell, and emails to his followers called on Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear, a Democrat, to denounce the new carbon regulations issued by the EPA sparking speculation that Bevin would seek a governor nomination from Republicans in 2015. The station also cited an anonymous source who said Bevin would campaign for Senate Rand Paul's seat in 2016 if the president's expected bid from the president prevented him from running for re-election. The August 2014 survey by Public Policy Polling showed that 25% of Republicans wanted Bevin to be the party governor candidate, ahead of candidates James Comer (20%) and Hal Heiner (18%) said.
On January 27, 2015, the last day for candidates to file, Bevin announced he would seek Republican nomination for governor. During his announcement, he introduced his partner, Jenean Hampton, a Tea Party activist who lost his offer to replace State Representative Jody Richards the previous year. Bevin joins fields including Farm Commissioner James Comer, former Louisville Board member Hal Heiner, and former Kentucky High Court Judge Will T. Scott. The National Journal predicted that Bevin would withdraw support from Comer, the early front-runner, who had attracted the Tea Party group and had received support from members of Congress Massie. The bustling principal is also projected to undermine the chances of Republican candidates in the general election, because Attorney General Jack Conway is the only Democratic candidate, which allows him to preserve resources for elections. Allied McConnell also estimates that Bevin's refusal to support McConnell will hurt him with major voters.
Platform
Harper Polling conducted the first voter survey after Bevin's announcement; it shows Comer leading the field with 25% support compared to Heiner's 19%, Bevin's 18%, and Scott 9%. Thirty percent of those surveyed have not yet decided. Bevin's platform, "Blueprint for a Better Kentucky", centers around economic issues rather than social. The seven main themes of the platform include:
- section of the right to work law;
- reform the country's tax code by eliminating inheritance taxes and reducing personal and corporate tax rates;
- ensuring the solvency of the state pension system, including the transition of new and existing employees into 401 (k) plans;
- reforming state governments, including reducing the number of state employees by 20 percent and expanding competitive offerings;
- reform the state education system by canceling the Core State Standard Initiative and allowing schools of charter and school vouchers;
- reform the country's health care system by ending kynek, state health insurance exchange, transferring the switch to a federal health insurance exchange, and reversing the country's Medicaid expansion by the Governor Beshear under the Affordable Care Act; and
- against the widespread federal influence.
Scott also advocated ending kynek, but Comer advocated maintaining and reforming and Heiner said he opposed the Affordable Care Act, but remained not committed to his plans for kynect. Bevin was the first of four to defend reverse Medicaid expansion, told reporters "There is no question about it I will reverse it soon The fact that we have one in four people in this country on Medicaid is not sustainable, it is not affordable and we need create jobs in this state, not more government programs to protect people. "
Campaign ads
In early April, pro-Heiner's advertisement from Citizens for a Sound Government revived allegations of taking bailout and tax liability against Bevin and attacked Comer for receiving thousands of dollars in agricultural subsidies. Within days, the candidates appeared at a debate in which Bevin challenged Heiner to publicly denounce the advertisement; Heiner replied with a silent smile. Bevin's public challenge to the ad prompted Lexington television to pull him after two weeks in the air. Bevin created a $ 200,000 television and radio commercial purchased to defend himself against advertising and started a telephone survey that praised his conservative credibility while highlighting Heiner's past positions on issues such as weapon control before asking how this statement influences people's views of each candidate. Heiner said the survey was a negative poll, but Bevin insisted it was a legitimate poll. At the end of April, polls show that Heiner's leadership has evaporated and that the race is essentially a three-way dead heat between him, Bevin, and Comer.
Allegations against Comer
Less than three weeks before the primary, the former waitress told Courier-Journal in a letter that Comer had physically and mentally tortured her in 1991 and that she accompanied her to the abortion clinic. Other newspapers, including Lexington Herald-Leader, who quoted Courier-Journal , later reported the allegations. The Lexington Herald-Leader has reported earlier that the Lexington-area blogger who has published stories about allegations for months has been in touch with the husband of Heiner's couple, K. C. Crosbie.
Heiner apologized for any role his campaign might have made in perpetuating the accusations against Comer, but his story touched the feud between Heiner and Comer that some analysts had expected would benefit Bevin. Bevin stated that the alleged connection of Heiner to Comer's allegations had "disqualified [Heiner] from being a GOP candidate for governor". During a debate featuring the four Republican candidates at Kentucky Sports Radio, Bevin said, "I do not know if [Heiner] is behind Comer's story, but I tell you that his people have been pushing this for a long time. has told me months and months before I even entered this race, that he knew many things, never heard anything, that he knew things based on the conversations that his people had about Jamie Comer. "Bevin also released advertisements depicting Comer and Heiner as children in a food battle, with the narrator promising that Bevin will bring "adult leadership" to the governor's race.
The first poll conducted after allegations against Comer showed Bevin leading the race with 27% support for Heiner 26%, 25% of Comer, and 8% from Scott, with 14% still undecided. Lowell Reese, of Kentucky Roll Call, reported on September 28, 2015, that the Comer campaign has been leaked to Herald-Leader emails indicating that the husband of Crosbie has been in touch with bloggers. By doing so, the campaign was able to deny the allegations of abuse that had been in circulation for months in Frankfort, the state capital, and put Heiner's campaign in a defensive position.
Results and after
On election night, May 19, Associated Press reports that Bevin received 70,479 votes, only 83 more than Comer; Heiner collected 57,948 and Scott received 15,364. At about 10:00 pm (EDT) that evening, Comer told his supporters, "I owe it to our supporters to ask for a canvas for this election." The reconciliation shows that Bevin remains 83 votes ahead, and Comer recognizes the candidacy for Bevin, before a full recount.
Bevin financed his main campaign with more than $ 2.5 million of his own money, representing 95% of the money he spent, and National Journal argued that withdrawing donors from Comer's supporters Heiner, Scott and McConnell would be critical of his success in elections. Almost immediately after his main victory, Bevin was asked about his support for McConnell, told reporters, "I really know no other elected officials in this country are going to more events between May and November to support candidates and support Mitch McConnell and the race I knocked on the door, I made a phone call, I wrote my own check, and I physically attended fundraising after fundraising. "The Federal Election Commission notes show evidence of contributions by Bevin to McConnell's campaign, and McConnell's advisor quoted by Bevin to corroborate his support refusing to do so when contacted by Louisiana Insider .
In the post-election period, McConnell issued one-sentence support from Bevin. Bevin removed all posts from his Twitter feed before February 2015, including some McConnell critics. At the Lincoln Day dinner event across the state, Bevin shows a cute montage of him supporting McConnell, including scenes staged he wakes up on a McConnell T-shirt, applying a McConnnell bumper sticker to his vehicle, and gets a "Tim Mitch" tattoo. McConnell was not present, but a spokesman read another letter in support of Bevin. Senator Paul was present and promised to do "anything humanly possible" to choose Bevin; State Senate President Robert Stivers and Country Minority Leader Jeff Hoover's home, Comer's allies, both support Bevin as well. Both Comer, Heiner, and Scott attend dinner.
2015 governor election
In the election, Bevin faces state Attorney General Jack Conway, marking the first governor's race in state history featuring two candidates from Louisville, the state's largest city. The Democratic Party of Kentucky sought to play a Republican fracture over Bevin's candidacy, launching a website featuring Republican criticism from Bevin, largely taken from his main race against McConnell. Bevin responded with a website that binds Conway to President Barack Obama, who is very unpopular in Kentucky, saying that Conway would support environmental regulations that harm the coal industry and support the Affordable Care Act, which is also unpopular in the state, although nationally praised the exchange of insurance.
Fiscal issues
Bevin recommends diverting the state tax code from "productivity" taxes, such as income taxes, to "consumption taxes" such as sales taxes, an act called Conway "regressive." He repeated his call to eliminate inheritance taxes and added that the state should "aim for" the abolition of corporate taxes. Bevin also called for the removal of many $ 10 billion in Kentucky in "tax expenditures", which he called "Frankfort-speak for loopholes". Asked to decide which expenses to eliminate, Bevin said, "I will not give you the specifics at this point in time.There are many loopholes that are frankly not conducive to developing the economy." Some are plausible, and that will continue.. [W] e have identified what many of them will be.But at this point, we have to see them as a whole.I will not give you specifics this time, I'm not. "
During the first public appearance of the joint candidate on June 19, 2015, Conway pledged to increase funding for early childhood education and expand its availability for the poor. He later referred to Bevin's statement in a Republican debate in May citing research showing that the educational advantages made by the federal Head Start Program were lost in the third grade. Bevin said that the state can not buy additional funds for early childhood education; he advocated funding of results-based education, but added, "The comment that I am not a supporter of early childhood education is really bunk, that's bullshit."
In a late July debate sponsored by the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, Bevin continues to insist that the state can not afford the expansion of Medicaid passed by Governor Beshear. He said he was "shocked that one in four Kentuckians now get their health insurance from Medicaid". He then advocated modifying the country's Medicaid system to require those who were insured by Medicaid to donate a small premium or a joint payment, citing a system similar to Indiana. The Kentucky General Assembly must influence such changes through legislation, but the debate moderator told Bevin that he can end the expansion entirely with the executive order. Bevin replied, "And create what level of chaos?" Alessi then cited February's promise from Bevin to end the "immediate" Medicaid expansion, which Bevin replied to, "I said I would overcome it.I did not say I would end it soon. Come back and see what I say." In a post-debate press conference, Lexington Herald-Leader columnist Sam Youngman confirmed that Bevin said he would "end" Medicaid expansion. Bevin then said, "Well, well, here's the point: We need to address the situation, we need to effectively create a program that suits people." In the September campaign stopping at the local Dairy Queen, Bevin promised only to "tweak" Medicaid Beshear's expansion. Later in the month, he told reporters "[W] e will not continue enrolling people in 138 percent of federal poverty [as permitted under the Affordable Care Act]," adding "The bottom line is this: Even if we do not continue enrolling people at 138 percent, there will be 850s a few thousand odds in it before the expansion and the other 400-and some of the strange that's in it right now.You will stay on top of it until we find a solution.But we will not re-register people at 138 percent. "In an email to reporters, communications director Bevin said," Matt has been consistent on the issue of Medicaid expansion since day one.His thing he asked was to revoke Medicaid Obama's expansion by applying to the [Central Medicare and Medicaid services] for 1115 waivers (as other countries have managed to do) to better tailor the solution to meet the needs a Commonwealth health. "
Social issues
Bevin says he "strongly disagrees" with the Supreme Court decision on Obergefell v. Hodges legalize same-sex marriage, continued "When the definition of marriage was put on voting 10 years ago, 74 percent of Kentuckians explained that they favor traditional marriage, and since then activist judges have chosen to ignore the will of the people, and ignoring the Constitutional principle of state rights. "He then attacked Conway, who refused to appeal the federal court's 2014 view that Kentucky's defense of marriage amendments violates the federal constitution:" Jack Conway's failure to do his job and defend our law in Kentucky disqualifying him from being elected to the governor's office. "Conway replied that he" used the wisdom given to me by law to inform Governor Beshear and the Commonwealth citizens that I would not waste this scarce office's resources to pursue the costly appeal that will not be result. " Bevin argues that Conway's decision costs the Kentucky taxpayer $ 2.3 million, citing the cost of private lawyers hired by Beshear to defend the amendment at Conway's venue.
Three Kentucky regional employees refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses after "Obergefell", citing religious objections.Bevin criticized Beshear for not calling a special legislative session to find a means to accommodate the clerk's objections. "He advocated replacing the Kentucky wedding license with" template marriage contract "." The form will then be presented to those who have the authority to approve or solemnize the marriage contract that a properly executed marriage contract may then be filed and recorded at the district registry office such as a mortgage, lien, deed, etc., "Public statement Bevin says.
After County Rowan County Officer Kim Davis opposed Judge David L. Bunning's order to issue a marriage certificate to same-sex couples, Bevin praised his "willingness to defend his First Amendment rights". Davis was held in Carter County jail for six days for an insult to court charges for refusing to obey Bunning's orders. On September 8, 2015, Bevin met with Davis in prison and then attended a rally hosted by Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee to celebrate his next release. After a September debate at Bellarmine University, Bevin said, "My intention has always been to execute this race on financial issues, economic problems." In recent weeks, 85 percent of what people are talking about is a social problem... I think this problem has redefine the race whether any of us would want it to happen or not. "Associated Press reporter Adam Beam writes that Davis's case" sparked a conservative religious spirit in a conservative country ", and Kentucky University of Kentucky political science professor Stephen Voss argues that a campaign focused on cultural and social issues would be "bad for Conway".
After the Medical Progress Center released a series of videos it said showing Planned Parenthood representatives illegally negotiating the sale of body parts of the aborted fetus, Bevin promised that, "As governor, I will direct my secretary to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services not distributing taxpayer dollars federal departments from the department to Planned Parenthood clinics.Polar federal taxpayers adjusted to Planned Parenthood flow through the administration of the governor.As governor, I will prevent the dollar from being distributed, and order them back into the federal government. "In fiscal year 2015-16, two the Plucky Parenthood affiliate of Kentucky, both of whom have not had an abortion, received $ 331,300 in federal funding.
Personal finance Bevin
Conway continued McConnell's line of attack on Bevin's finances, particularly the problem of tax arrears. While McConnell's allegations involved a delinquent tax on Bevin Brothers Manufacturing, Theo Keith of Wave Louisville reported in June that Bevin had been late for at least 10 times paying property taxes at his vacation homes in Maine and Louisiana between 2002 and 2009. He further reported in July that Bevin's company, Integrity Holdings, also has some problems of past arrears. In total, Keith estimates that Bevin has paid about $ 1,800 in fines for late tax payments. Bevin gets annoyed with Keith's report and refuses to answer questions from him at the next press conference; he does not buy ads in WAVE, even running ads on three other network broadcast stations in Louisville. The Associated Press' Adam Beam has finally reported that Bevin has paid his taxes late on 30 different occasions. In an October interview with Beam, Bevin said, "Sometimes you pay him late and you pay interest for paying him late but you pay taxes... you do this all the time in business." He added that his critics "may blur the story every time I pay my taxes early and get a discount." He also reiterated that, at the time of the interview, he had paid all his taxes: "Am I really owed taxes to anyone, anywhere? The answer is no."
Results
On August 10, Fark.com founder Drew Curtis submitted a number of petition signatures needed to appear on the governor's ballot as Independent candidate with his wife, Heather, as his partner. In early October, the first poll released after Curtis entered the field showed Conway leading with 42 percent support among potential voters, compared with 37 percent from Bevin's and Curtis 7 percent. Fifteen percent of those surveyed have not yet decided. Conway's five percentage percentage margin lasted a month later; just a week before the election, Bluegrass polls showed 45 percent support for Conway, 40 percent for Bevin, and 6 percent for Curtis. The Lexington Herald-Leader notes that Bevin has followed every publicly-released poll, and political analyst Stephen Voss said that, given the data consistency, "Bevin needs a sudden change of voter preferences if he wishes won this contest, and he probably dragged some of his Republican colleagues as well. "
On November 3, Bevin garnered 511,771 votes (53%) to Conway 426,944 (44%) and Curtis '35.629 (3%). Bevin was just a Republican-elected governor of Kentucky since World War II, and his partner Jenean Hampton became the first African-American elected in any state office in Kentucky. Conway has been relying on strong support from the urban areas of the state, but managing smaller-than-expected margins at Jefferson, Fayette, and Franklin County - home to Louisville, Lexington, and Frankfort, respectively - while turnouts on behalf of Bevin strong in a more traditional The rural areas of the Republic. Finally, Conway had only 14 of 120 counties in Kentucky, and observers wrote that the loss was likely to end his political career. Republicans also won a race for treasurer, auditor, and commissioner of agriculture. Analyst Ronnie Ellis speculates that the Republican victory 'set the stage for the party to take control of the state House of Representatives in the November 2016 election. With an eight-seat majority, Kentucky House is the last legislative body in the Democratic South.
Governor of Kentucky
After a series of terror attacks in Paris - where the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility - Bevin announced that, after his inauguration, he would join 25 other US governors in refusing any Syrian refugees who want to move to each country " until we can fully determine the degree of risk to our citizens. " In response, Lexington Herald-Leader political cartoonist Joel Pett published a cartoon depicting Bevin hiding under his desk, a floor full of newspapers featuring stories about the Paris attack, with an aide telling him, "Sir, they Not terrorists.... they are your own foster children! ", A reference to four adopted children from Ethiopia Bevin. Bevin responded via Twitter: "The racial intolerance tone being hit by @HeraldLeader has no place in Kentucky and will not be tolerated by our administration."
Bevin was inaugurated into a four-year term as Governor of Kentucky on December 8, 2015. Observers from both parties hailed Bevin's selection of experienced and relatively moderate individuals for his cabinet, including his former rival, Hal Heiner, as Secretary of Education and Labor Cabinet and former University of Kentucky football stands out Derrick Ramsey as Secretary of Labor. The appointment of two Democratic representatives - John Tilley as Secretary of the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet and Tanya Pullin to state judge - reduced the majority of the party in the House and arranged special elections that gave Republicans the opportunity to win their seats from the Democrats. Bevin set a special election date to fill the seats of Tilley and Pullin, as well as those previously held by newly elected Auditor Mike Harmon and newly elected Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles, for March 8, 2016. Democratic representatives, Denver Butler and Jim Gooch also transferred their party affiliations to the Republic in December, reducing the Democratic majority to 50-46 for the start of Bevin's first General Assembly governor, and giving Republicans the opportunity to divide the average of 100 seats of the assembly by sweeping special elections. Republicans occupy only Harmon's seat, giving Democrats a 53-47 advantage in the House for the rest of the session.
Bevin issued the first executive order of his administration on December 22, 2015. Among the issues discussed was to remove the names of county registrars from the state marriage certificate, and reverse the order by Beshear who restored the voting rights to nonviolent criminals who had completed their sentence and raising the minimum wage for some national workers to $ 10.10 per hour.
In December, Bevin announced that the state would not renew the advertising contract for kynek. In January 2016, he told federal authorities that he planned to dismantle kynek by the end of 2016 and accused Mark Birdwhistell, former Health Minister under Governor Fletcher, by designing a system to replace kynek. Although Beshear's administration suggested the closure would cost the country $ 23 million, Bevin, citing the Deloitte study, promised to be in "small single digits [millions]". In May 2016, Bevin had one of the lowest approval ratings among US governors.
Bevin declared 2016 and 2017 the Biblical Year in Kentucky.
2016-18 bi-annual budget
On January 26, 2016, Bevin presented the budget address to the General Assembly detailing his two-year budget proposal. The proposal cuts the allocation for most state institutions by 9 percent over the next two years, with most savings being transferred to the state pension system, which is one of the worst funded in the country. Public primary and secondary education is spared from deductions, such as social workers, public defenders, corrective officers, and officials of the Kentucky State Police, all of whom received an increase under Bevin's proposal. State and university colleges are not excluded from deductions, and Bevin calls for gradual steps for performance-based funding for higher education, with all funding for higher education related to performance by 2020.
With executive orders, Bevin requires all state agencies to reduce spending on their current budget by 4.5 percent. House Speaker Greg Stumbo argued that Bevin had no authority to order such reductions without legislative approval, but Senate President Robert Stivers defended Bevin's actions, saying that the amount did not spend the money previously allocated. Bevin then compromised with state universities and state universities to reduce cuts by 2 percent, but Attorney General Andy Beshear sued to stop the cuts entirely. On May 18, 2016, the Franklin Circuit Court judge ruled that Bevin indeed had the power to withhold. The Kentucky Supreme Court accepted the case at the time of the appeal, granting Beshear's request to pass the Kentucky Court of Appeal for his benefit. The trial before the Supreme Court took place on 18 August. On September 21, 2016, the Supreme Court issued a 5-2 decision that overturned the Franklin Circuit Court decision and agreed with Beshear that Bevin has no authority to make a mid-year budget cut without the approval of the General Assembly.
On March 7, 2016, Bevin released a video on social media claiming that the Democratic House did not follow up on their obligations to help create the state budget. The legislator responded with photographs and statements that while Bevin produced his film designed to punish them, House leaders were in fact in committee meetings that drew up detailed budget proposals while Stumbo Speakers suggested the Governor was unfamiliar with the legislative process, or intended to deceive people. On March 12, House Democrats released their own budget, which held most of the cuts to the executive agency within Bevin's budget, but freed the public universities from cuts. The Republican-controlled Senate responded with a proposal that was broken closely to Bevin's original budget.
Both rooms announced that their negotiations had reached a dead end just days before the end of the mandate mandated at the hearing on April 15, but Bevin insisted he would not call a special legislative session for them to continue negotiations. Just before 3:00 am on April 14th, negotiators announced that they had reached a compromise that would cut the public university's budget by 4.5 percent over two years instead of the 9 percent demanded by Bevin and implement a performance-based financing model at 2017. The money will be allocated to contribute over $ 1 billion towards the obligations of the state pension system, which exceeds $ 30 billion. Republicans agreed to fund Democratic proposals for a scholarship program that provides free community tuition for eligible students, succumbing to their demands to stop state funding for Planned Parenthood, and to salvage state wage guidelines. Bevin signed the budget, but used the veto-line right to disarm the scholarship program for the first year of two years, saying the guidelines were poorly written and had to be revised before implementing the program in 2017. Due to a constitutional ban on legislative sessions extended until April 15 , The General Assembly can not rule out the veto.
Abortion
In January 2016, Bevin's administration sent a cease and desist letter to Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky ordering him to stop having an abortion at his clinic in Louisville for not having the required license. Clinics claimed that they had been given permission to conduct the procedure by inspector general Beshear shortly before Bevin took office, but nevertheless stopped the procedure on 28 January. Bevin filed a lawsuit against Planned Parenthood in February, claiming to have committed 23 abortions illegally without a license; the lawsuit says the Planned Parenthood license application is a drawback because it does not include hospital treaties and ambulance services to transport and treat patients in cases of complications, as required by state law, and that the Beshear inspector general is wrong in instructing the organization to start an abortion before a license Approved. Planned Parenthood argues that, before the license can be completed, an abortion facility should be subject to a sudden check, requiring an abortion to be done there. In March, the University of Louisville Hospital announced that it had stepped down from a transfer agreement with Planned Parenthood, saying it had been pressured to do so and felt that state funding was in jeopardy by continuing the agreement. A spokesman for Bevin denied that the pressure came from anyone in the government.
Two weeks after filing a lawsuit against Planned Parenthood, Bevin sued EMW Women's Clinic in Lexington, claiming that it was an unlicensed abortion facility. The clinic has operated without a license under an exception given to a private doctor's office, but a clinical examination - first conducted since 2006 - revealed that the facility had an exclusive abortion. Inspectors also reported "some unsafe and unhealthy conditions" including the presence of expired drugs. EMW stopped aborting March 9, pending the outcome of the lawsuit. On March 18, Fayette County Circuit Judge Ernesto Scorsone refused to issue stop orders and stopped for EMW, discovering that the first trimester abortion done there "did not require sedation or service from anesthesiologists", suggesting that the clinic is a doctor's office. Scorsone also said clinics serve the public interest by providing abortion services to the eastern part of the state. The Administration appealed the Scorsone decision, and on June 15, a panel of three judges from the Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled the Scorsone's decision in error and issued a temporary order against the EMW, forbidding them from abortion until and unless the case was finally resolved in favor. The Kentucky Supreme Court backed the decision in August.
On January 9, 2017, Bevin signed two statutes two laws prohibiting abortion, including one that prohibits abortion after the 20th week of pregnancy. Before signing it, Bevin announced a 20-week ban would be the first of seven bills that he would sign.
2016 US presidential campaign
At the Voice of Family Vector Conference Meeting in Washington DC in September 2016, where Republican presidential and vice presidential candidates Donald Trump and Mike Pence also spoke, Bevin "both regretted and called for revolutions and bloodshed to 'redeem' what [will be gone] if Hillary Clinton will win the 2016 presidential election, according to a review of Bevin's speech. He uses and echoes the language of a "tree of freedom" refreshed by patriotic blood and greets his own family in the same thing - "I have nine children... maybe their blood is needed." A second review of the speech said Bevin "encourages American youths primarily to 'be brave' and to avoid the temptation to be silent in the face of left-wing ideologues trying to recreate America." This review continues through "Neville Chamberlains in the world" in contrast to "Winston Churchill" and "This is a slippery slope.... First, we kill unborn children [with abortion], then it's' Do not ask , do not say, 'now this type of gender attachment from' do not be fanatical ',' do not make sense, '' do not be enlightened. '"Before last call to serve and sacrifice in speech, in this account, audience members and then Bevin said "[w] blood hoses will be shed" in, like other accounts, "hard metaphor." After that, Bevin was asked about the "blood... storehouse" section and, in summary, "seems to say he is referring to the fees paid by uniformed men and women." The third account of VVS's appearance says he has spoken without a note or teleprompter. Another report reported that he "refers to the appearance of the Nazis that preceded the Holocaust twice, pleading for the German priestly quote Martin NiemÃÆ'¶ller," then they came for me - and there was nothing left to speak for me. '"
Then in September, Bevin spokeswoman Jessica Ditto reportedly resigned to become deputy director of Trump's campaign communications.
Kentucky state elections 2016
In the 2016 election, the Republicans took the supermarkets at the Kentucky House of Representatives, making it the first time since 1921 that the party controlled the room. Speaker of the State House Greg Stumbo, regarded as one of Bevin's main political antagonists, is one of the few House Democrats who lost the election, something Bevin says "'good liberation'... he will not miss a bit. both for his absence. "This victory allowed Bevin to pursue his conservative agenda, since the Democratic House has blocked conservative legislation before this.
2017 legislative session
During an unusual Saturday session, the Kentucky General Assembly issued seven bills that were tracked rapidly on the Republican prime legislative priorities. These bills include two that limit abortion, including a 20-week abortion ban, and three that reduce union strength, including bills that make Kentucky the 27th working-to-right state. Bevin signed all seven bills into law on January 9th.
On March 16, 2017, Bevin signed SB 17 into law, which was intended to "protect religious expression in public schools" by banning school districts from organizing student organizations in such a way as to require them to accept LGBT people as members. Other bills signed by Bevin into the bill include the bill "Blue Lives Matter" which makes it a hate crime to attack a police officer, placing Planned Parenthood on the smallest priority for funding, and removing restrictions on local governments allowing charter schools. On March 27, 2017, Bevin vetoed a bill that would allow judges to order mentally disabled persons to undergo ambulatory care if they could not recognize their condition and if they had a history of hospitalization, due to concerns over its effect of individual freedom. Kentucky's legislature ruled out his veto on the bill and the other three.
In April 2017, Bevin signed HB 128 into law, ordering the Kentucky Board of Education to develop rules for biblical literacy classes. Bevin signed another bill authorizing Bible classes in June 2017.
2018 legislative session
In February 2018 after the Parkland school shooting, Bevin stated that it was time to discuss what "should not be allowed in the United States because it relates to the things that are in the hands of our young people". "This is a quote video game-quotation marks... Similar to pornography, they have made people less sensitive to the value of human life, the dignity of women, the dignity of human politeness."
In March 2018, Bevin sparked controversy among local teacher associations when he criticized their protests against the pension reform bill as "selfish and petty". In April 2018, he "guaranteed" that the cessation of the teachers' work had resulted in unsupervised children sec
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