Carol Barr, the wife of six-term Congressman Andy Barr (R-KY), passed away suddenly on Tuesday at their family home in Lexington, Kentucky, according to the congressman’s office. She was 39. 
Mary Rosado, the congressman’s chief of staff, announced her death in a statement late Tuesday: “Congressman Andy Barr’s wife Carol passed away suddenly tonight at the family home in Lexington. During this tragic time, we respectfully ask for privacy for Congressman Barr and his family to grieve Mrs. Barr being called home to heaven.”
The couple married in 2008, and had two daughters. According to Rosado, “Congressman Barr may release a more detailed statement at a later date, but right now is solely focused on being a father to his two beautiful daughters.”
Politicians from across Kentucky have offered their condolences to Congressman Barr and his daughters. 
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said in a statement that he and his wife, Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, were “stunned and heartbroken at the news of Carol’s passing.”
“Her warmth filled whatever room she entered and her contributions made Kentucky a better place for all of us,” said McConnell, adding that to her two children, “Carol was a wonderful role model and source of constant love.”
“We send our sincere condolences to Andy, their family  and his staff at this terrible time,” said McConnell. 
In a statement, Governor Andy Beshear (D-KY) said that he and his wife were “heartbroken for U.S. Rep. Andy Barr and his family tonight at the sad news of the unexpected passing of the congressman&#8217;s wife, Carol. We are praying for the Barr family.&#8221;
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Britainy and I are heartbroken for U.S. Rep. Andy Barr and his family tonight at the sad news of the unexpected passing of the congressman&#8217;s wife, Carol. We are praying for the Barr family. ^ AB
— Governor Andy Beshear (@GovAndyBeshear) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovAndyBeshear/status/1273071718349910016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Our hearts are heavy tonight,&#8221; said Senator Rand Paul (R-KY). &#8220;Kelley and I offer our deepest condolences to Rep. Andy Barr, his two daughters, family, and friends. Please join us in praying for them during this incredibly difficult time.&#8221;
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Our hearts are heavy tonight. Kelley and I offer our deepest condolences to Rep. Andy Barr, his two daughters, family, and friends. Please join us in praying for them during this incredibly difficult time.
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) <a href="https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1273090412081754112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
Attorney General Daniel Cameron (R-KY) also offered his condolences: &#8220;Heartbroken to learn of Carol Barr’s passing. Carol was a wonderful mother and wife, and she was beloved by all who knew her. She will be deeply missed. My heartfelt prayers are with Andy, their children, and their entire family as they mourn this unspeakable loss.&#8221;
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Heartbroken to learn of Carol Barr’s passing. Carol was a wonderful mother and wife, and she was beloved by all who knew her. She will be deeply missed. My heartfelt prayers are with Andy, their children, and their entire family as they mourn this unspeakable loss.
— Attorney General Daniel Cameron (@kyoag) <a href="https://twitter.com/kyoag/status/1273067184860913664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Election Day 2012

Carol Barr, Wife Of GOP Congressman Andy Barr, Has Died

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The Kentucky State Police is investigating a man&#8217;s death after protesters exchanged gunfire with police and National Guard officers in Louisville.
Gov. Andy Beshear announced the investigation on Monday after the man was killed earlier that morning. Beshear did not name the victim, though local reports and social media posts identify the dead man David McAtee, the owner of a popular barbecue joint, according to the <a href="https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2020/06/01/beshear-authorizes-investigation-into-louisville-police-national-guard-shooting/5306733002/">Louisville Courier-Journal</a>.
“Last night at around 12 a.m., it is our understanding that the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) and the Kentucky National Guard were dispatched to 26th and Broadway. While working to disperse a crowd, LMPD and National Guard returned fire resulting in a death. Given the seriousness of the situation, I have authorized the Kentucky State Police to independently investigate the event,” Beshear said.
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LMPD Chief Steve Conrad said the incident took place just after midnight as officers began breaking up a crowd of people in a grocery store parking lot. Police have not yet identified the civilians who allegedly shot at law enforcement or know if McAtee was one of the shooters.
“Officers and soldiers began to clear the lot and at some point were shot at,” Conrad said on Monday. “Both LMPD and National Guard members returned fire.”
&#8220;We are collecting video from the incident and expect to release what we have some time today,&#8221; Conrad said.
Louisville is under a 9 p.m. curfew since the outbreak of violent riots over the death of Breonna Taylor. Taylor was a black emergency medical technician who was shot and killed in her home in March after police broke down her door while searching her home as part of a larger narcotics investigation.
David McAtee was not a protester, according to WLKY news anchor <a href="https://twitter.com/Stephon_Dingle">Stephon Dingle</a>. McAtee is the owner of a barbecue joint and was not part of any protest over Taylor’s death but was just hanging out in the parking lot. The lot has been a popular spot for locals to gather outside of the curfew, witnesses told Dingle.
Breshear met with McAtee’s family on Monday. It is unclear what was shared.
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Fascinating image as <a href="https://twitter.com/louisvillemayor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@louisvillemayor</a> arrives at the scene and walks with police escort to comfort the family of David McAtee, shot to death outside his business by law enforcement this morning. This as residents yell expletives calling the move political and saving face. @ WLKY <a href="https://t.co/YZfCzumSy4">pic.twitter.com/YZfCzumSy4</a>
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Protests over Taylor’s death coincided with the protests and riots in Minneapolis over the death of George Floyd. Taylor was shot eight times after police officers busted down the door to her home and exchanged gunfire with her boyfriend Kenneth Walker, who said that officers never announced themselves before breaking in. The police officers contest Walker’s claim and say they knocked several times and announced themselves before storming the house.
Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer and LMPD Training Division Commander Maj. Paul Humphrey denounced the wave of violence that has gripped the city and said Sunday that the protests over Taylor’s death have devolved into “riots.” The mayor has instituted a curfew and called in the National Guard to curb the violence.
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Protests Continue In Louisville Over Deaths In Recent Police Shootings

Officials Say Man Killed In Louisville After Protesters Fire On Police, National Guard

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Governor Andy Beshear (D-KY) has apologized to a Kentucky cook he falsely accused of applying for unemployment with a joke name. The governor made the original remarks in a segment of Monday&#8217;s coronavirus press conference, during which he mentioned that that the state was slow to process unemployment claims. 
“I owe somebody an apology tonight,” said the governor, according to a <a href="https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1255260587908612101?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1255260587908612101&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fnews%2Fkentucky-governor-apologizes-for-accusing-resident-named-tupac-shakur-of-unemployment-fraud">video segment</a> posted by Recount. “Last night I spent a little bit of time talking about fraudulent claims holding us up. I mentioned an individual that had filed in the name of Tupac Shakur.”
“I didn&#8217;t’ know — and it’s my fault — that we have a Kentuckian, who goes by Malik, whose name is Tupac Shakur,” said Beshear, who was unaware his constituent shared the name of the deceased 90’s rapper at the time he accused him of slowing everything down. “I talked to him on the phone today. I apologized. I told him how it happened, but I owned it. It’s my fault.”
“He was gracious, and I said I’m sorry if I embarrassed him and caused him any attention he didn’t want,” he said. “He was very kind. He ended the call ‘God Bless,’ and we’re going to make sure that we resolve his claim.”
During a coronavirus press conference on Monday, the governor used Tupac Shakur as an example of the “bad apples” making the unemployment review process slower, and as such, causing delays for the rest of the people waiting, according to remarks captured by <a href="https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article242342026.html">The Lexington Herald Leader</a>. 
“We had someone apply for unemployment for Tupac Shakur, here in Kentucky. And that person probably thought they were being funny. They probably did,” said the governor. “Except for the fact that because of them, we got to go through so many other claims.”
“One person, thinking that they were funny using someone else’s identity, is going to make tens of thousands, potentially, of other people wait,” he said. “We can’t be doing that, and we shouldn’t be doing that as we move forward.”
The Herald Leader <a href="https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article242331811.html">reported</a> on the governor’s mistake after the press conference, having tracked down Shakur and determining that he was actually a laid off cook, not a person applying for unemployment under a joke name. 
“I’ve been struggling for like the last month trying to figure out how to pay the bills,” said Shakur, who told the news agency he changed his last name in 1998 to mean “thankful to God” in Arabic. “I’m hurt, I’m really embarrassed and I’m shocked.”
The news agency also sent Shakur’s phone number to the governor’s office, which claimed it couldn’t find him, and reported that Shakur was grateful for the governor’s personal call and accepted his apology. 
“I understand, he’s dealing with a lot,” said Shakur. “Mistakes happen.”
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Major Cities In The U.S. Adjust To Restrictive Coronavirus Measures

Governor Apologizes To Cook He Accused Of Using Joke Name On Unemployment Application

After a liberal mayor in Kentucky cracked down on church services, including even drive-in services, a Protestant church sued the mayor and the city of Louisville, which resulted in a temporary restraining order for the parishioners to hold drive-in service on Easter Sunday.
The lawsuit, though, has proven even more effective. According to <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/04/21/kentucky-mayor-greg-fischer-religious-services-coronavirus-lockdown/">The Daily Caller</a>, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer has backed down on his initial policy, now allowing drive-in services even outside On Fire Christian Church&#8217;s time-limited restraining order.
&#8220;Drive-in services consistent with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s social distancing requirements may be held, according to an agreement between the Kentucky mayor and On Fire Christian Church’s legal representation, the nonprofit public interest law firm First Liberty Institute announced in a <a href="https://firstliberty.org/media/breaking-church-louisville-ky-mayor-reach-agreement-in-dispute-over-drive-in-church-services/">Tuesday press release</a>,&#8221; the report outlined.
“We are grateful to Mayor Fischer and Louisville city officials who worked with us to ensure their policies are both consistent with the Constitution and the CDC’s guidelines,” said Roger Byron, Senior Counsel for First Liberty Institute, the <a href="https://firstliberty.org/media/breaking-church-louisville-ky-mayor-reach-agreement-in-dispute-over-drive-in-church-services/">press release</a> said.  “During this challenging time, we need to see more of this kind of cooperation between government officials and the religious community.”
“We are pleased that the mayor was willing to work together with our client to find a solution that protects religious liberty exercised in a responsible manner,” added Matthew Martens, partner at law firm WilmerHale. “Like everyone, On Fire Christian Church looks forward to the day when they can meet together in-person again without being restricted to their cars.”
As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/liberal-mayor-youre-not-allowed-to-attend-drive-in-church-service-judge-nope-gives-mayor-tongue-lashing">The Daily Wire</a> last week, U.S. District Judge Justin Walker strongly rebuked Mayor Fischer in a temporary restraining order.
“On Holy Thursday, an American mayor criminalized the communal celebration of Easter,&#8221; Judge Walker wrote. Would-be church attendees “face an impossible choice,” he continued, “skip Easter Sunday service, in violation of their sincere religious beliefs, or risk arrest, mandatory quarantine, or some other enforcement action for practicing those sincere religious beliefs.”
“[I]f sitting in cars did pose a significant danger of spreading the virus, Louisville would close all drive-throughs and parking lots that are not related to maintaining public health, which they haven’t done,” Walker said, adding, “Nor is there any evidence that churches are less essential than every other business that is currently allowed to be open – liquor stores among them.”
Over the weekend, the church was allegedly targeted by vandals, who left nails at the entrance and exit areas of On Fire Christian Church. “The members of On Fire Christian Church are saddened by this crime,&#8221; Byron said. &#8220;We hope today’s agreement will end the violence against the church.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/liberal-mayor-youre-not-allowed-to-attend-drive-in-church-service-judge-nope-gives-mayor-tongue-lashing">Liberal Mayor: You’re Not Allowed To Attend Drive-In Church Service. Judge: Nope, Gives Mayor Tongue-Lashing.</a>
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Mayor Greg Fischer

WIN: Church’s Lawsuit Against Liberal Mayor Who Cracked Down On Church Services Gets Results

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This was the most historic Easter that any of us have ever lived through, but for all the wrong reasons. For the first time in our history, the majority of Americans were legally barred from worshipping. Governors across the country have discovered that the word &#8220;non-essential&#8221; is a magical elixir that grants them unlimited power. All they need to do is declare a thing &#8220;non-essential,&#8221; and they will have the authority to shut it down indefinitely, upon penalty of imprisonment. It&#8217;s as simple and easy as that, apparently.
One Mississippi cop was rather blunt about it as he broke up a drive-in Easter service in Greenville. To be clear, these were people who gathered in a parking lot, in their cars, with the windows up, to celebrate the holiday. There was no plausible chance of any contagion being spread. But the gathering was descended upon by law enforcement in any case because, as the cop <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/our-rights-dont-come-from-authority-pastor-slams-mississippi-mayor-after-police-break-up-drive-in-service">explained</a> to an understandably infuriated pastor, &#8220;your rights are suspended&#8221; by &#8220;order of the governor.&#8221; Who knew that &#8220;governor&#8221; was another word for &#8220;emperor&#8221;?
The Emperor of Kentucky took things a step further. He instructed his law enforcement agencies to record the license plate numbers of anyone who commits the crime of going to church. Their information will be logged and registered, and the entire house will be forced into a <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/04/12/kentucky-churches-hold-in-person-easter-services-despite-order/2980456001/">mandatory 14-day quarantine</a>. Anyone who fails to obey this command will be subject to &#8220;further penalties.&#8221;
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This brings me to a rather important point that many of us, myself included, have too often overlooked. The word &#8220;quarantine&#8221; does not mean what the media and certain governors want us to think it means. According to the department of Health and Human Services — and this definition is consistent with what you&#8217;ll find in any dictionary — a quarantine &#8220;separates and restricts the movement of people who were exposed to a contagious disease to see if they become sick.&#8221; Isolation, on the other hand, &#8220;separates sick people with a contagious disease from people who are not sick.&#8221;
It is true that state governments have the authority to take these measures, as well they should. And I am fully in favor of COVID-19 quarantines and isolations. But that is precisely what most state governments are not doing. In the Kentucky example, those people who are caught going to church are being put under a punitive house arrest, not a quarantine. The government has no reason to think that any of them have been exposed to anything. It&#8217;s not as though someone with a confirmed case attended the service, or that Kentucky is a hotspot teeming with the virus. A quarantine is only a quarantine when people who have been exposed — or who have a high likelihood of having been exposed — are temporarily isolated. This is not that, and so we need a different term. House arrest seems closest to the mark, although, according to Encyclopedia Britannica, that term technically means &#8220;court ordered confinement to one&#8217;s own home.&#8221; What do we call it when the governor orders the confinement? Mass extra-judicial house arrest?
As of this morning, Kentucky had fewer than 2,000 confirmed cases of the virus and fewer than 100 deaths. Those numbers are not nearly high enough to assume that every person who attends a church service must have been exposed. Now, you might argue that there could be many more cases than testing has so far indicated. Perhaps so. But if that&#8217;s true, then the death rate is probably exponentially lower, which undermines the case for quarantines. So it seems that either way — if there are only a few cases or if there are a great many — the argument for calling these house arrests &#8220;quarantines&#8221; is, at best, extremely weak.
The same applies for most states across the country. We all talk about how we are in quarantine, but we use the term in a very colloquial way, often without knowing that we&#8217;re using it that way. In reality, because the vast majority of the people locked down are healthy and as far as we know haven&#8217;t been exposed to the virus, we cannot use the word to describe our situation. Arguably, we are all under a form of house arrest. The media sometimes prefers the phrase &#8220;shelter-in-place,&#8221; but the section about shelter-in-place orders on the <a href="https://emergency.cdc.gov/shelterinplace.asp">CDC&#8217;s</a> website clearly describes an imminent emergency, like a chemical weapons attack or something along those lines, and most of the states currently under lockdown are not in a situation coming anywhere close to that. Indeed, unless we live in New York, Louisiana, or a handful of other hotspots, we have been remanded to our homes not in response to an actual emergency, but to projections and models that warn of a theoretical emergency.
This raises a number of urgent questions, the most urgent of which is this: what is the limitation on the government&#8217;s newfound power to lock millions of healthy people in their homes, and drastically curtail their civil liberties — &#8220;suspending&#8221; them, to use the cop&#8217;s phrase — on the basis of predictions? Even if you do not think that our current situation represents an abuse of that power, you must admit that the potential for abuse is immense. And perhaps that&#8217;s reason enough to oppose it altogether.

Andy Beshear

WALSH: We Have Been Placed Under Mass House Arrest, Not Quarantine. The Distinction Matters. Here’s Why. 

At a Kentucky church that defied Gov. Andy Beshear&#8217;s order against mass gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic and held an Easter service Sunday morning, someone spread nails at the church entrances to the parking lot.
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I’m at Maryville Baptist Church, which continues to hold in-person services despite orders to cease . This morning, piles of nails have been scattered at every entrance. <a href="https://t.co/WcxkqtVZQw">pic.twitter.com/WcxkqtVZQw</a>
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As <a href="https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2020/04/12/kentucky-churches-hold-in-person-easter-services-despite-order/5127260002/">The Courier-Journal</a> reported, roughly 50 worshipers attended the service at Maryville Baptist Church in Louisville; a notice was left on their windshields informing them that they should quarantined themselves for 14 days or face &#8220;further enforcement measures.&#8221; Beshear stated that recipients of the notices will receive a letter &#8220;asking them to self-quarantine,” adding, “No one is being charged with anything.”
Beshear stated, &#8220;Those that want to have mass gatherings send out a signal all around the country to those that don&#8217;t think this virus is serious, that don&#8217;t follow the rules and then want to come to a place to make their point.” He was echoed by Kentucky Health Commissioner Steven Stack, who asserted, &#8220;At what point do our rights to gather entitle us to have other people die as a result?&#8221; On Saturday, Beshear stated, &#8220;To our knowledge, 99.89% of all churches and all synagogues and all mosques in Kentucky have chosen to do the right thing. I&#8217;m just doing my best to save lives. And there aren&#8217;t easy answers.&#8221;
On April 4 Beshear <a href="https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2020/04/04/kentucky-gov-beshear-church-services-amid-covid-19-leads-deaths/2949210001/">issued a statement</a> partially directed at Maryville&#8217;s pastor, the Rev. Jack Roberts, saying, &#8220;If you&#8217;re still holding mass gatherings, church or otherwise, you are spreading the coronavirus. And you are likely causing the death of Kentuckians. It&#8217;s that clear.&#8221;
The Courier Journal <a href="https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2020/04/08/maryville-baptist-church-leader-defies-beshear-vows-meet-easter/2969069001/">reported on April 8</a> that Roberts informed them he had received the state order to stop holding services but added he had spoken a national Christian organization whose attorneys “are in the process shortly of filing a lawsuit&#8221; against the Beshear administration. He stated, &#8220;If you read the Constitution of the United States, if you read the constitution of the state of the Kentucky, they both say that (Beshear) is infringing on the church&#8217;s rights.”
On Easter Sunday, constituents who remained in their cars did not receive quarantine notices.
Harlan County Judge-Executive Dan Mosley said on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dan.mosley.14/posts/2863846827030918">Facebook </a>he knew of 10 churches in Harlan County that scheduled in-person Easter services. He cautioned, “Just know you are putting your members in harm’s way, unlike the hundreds of churches in our county that are doing it the right way and having virtual or drive-up services.&#8221;
Beshear has ordered police to record license plates of those attending in-person services; that drew a blast from Senator Rand Paul, who tweeted:
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Taking license plates at church? Quarantining someone for being Christian on Easter Sunday? Someone needs to take a step back here.
Kentucky Governor Announces Plan to Record License Plates of Easter Church Goers and Force Them to Quarantine for 14 Days <a href="https://t.co/z7U42liQRh">https://t.co/z7U42liQRh</a>
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Rep. Thomas Massie echoed:
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What the actual hell?
“Democrat Kentucky Governor Announces Plan to Record License Plates of Easter Church Goers and Force Them to Self-Quarantine for 14 Days”<a href="https://t.co/p6bAR8U3M2">https://t.co/p6bAR8U3M2</a>
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The <a href="https://www.kentucky.com/news/coronavirus/article241956071.html">Lexington Herald-Leader</a> reported on Sunday:
<blockquote>Gov. Andy Beshear announced 134 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and three new coronavirus related deaths on Easter Sunday, bringing Kentucky’s official totals to 1,963 cases and 97 deaths. “We’re getting very close to that 2,000 mark, but here in Kentucky, we’re still not seeing the type of increases that we’re seeing in other states and we are very grateful for that,” Beshear said. &#8230;
Beshear said there are now 289 people hospitalized with the coronavirus in Kentucky, including 136 people currently hospitalized in the ICU. At least 607 people have recovered from the virus.</blockquote>

Someone Spreads Nails At Entrances To Parking Lot Of Church Holding Easter Services

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Governor Andy Beshear (D-KY) announced Tuesday afternoon that Kentucky now has 163 confirmed cases of coronavirus — 39 of which have been confirmed in the last day — and also revealed that one of the new cases has been linked with a “coronavirus party.”
In a press conference Tuesday, Beshear said he was &#8220;mad” that someone attended an event making light of the epidemic was among the batch of new cases, reports <a href="https://www.kentucky.com/news/coronavirus/article241471706.html">The Lexington Herald Leader</a>. 
“Anyone who goes to something like this may think they’re indestructible, but it’s someone else’s loved one that they are going to hurt,” said Beshear, reports the news agency. 
“We are battling for the health and the lives of our parents and our grandparents. Don’t be callous as to intentionally go to something and expose yourself to something that will hurt other people. We ought to be much better than that,” he said. 
According to <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/03/24/kentucky-coronavirus-party-attendee-tests-positive-for-covid-19/">The New York Post</a>, the coronavirus party was attended by young adults in their 20s. The governor declined to further elaborate on the event, or clarify the person is suspected to have contracted coronavirus at the party. 
The Trump administration has advised Americans to <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/03.16.20_coronavirus-guidance_8.5x11_315PM.pdf">avoid gatherings</a> of more than 10 people until March 31. 
However, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had to order the closure of most beaches in the state earlier this week after receiving reports that young people, particularly college students on spring break, were flaunting social-distancing orders despite the pandemic. 
“The message I think for spring breakers is that the party’s over in Florida, you’re not going to be able to congregate on any beach in the state,” DeSantis <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/ron-desantis-florida-spring-breakers-party-over">told Fox News</a>. “The bars are closed so you’re not going to have a place to congregate there, so we would just tell those folks maybe come back next year when things are better, but that is not what we’re looking for here in the state of Florida.”
Brady Sluder, one college student in particular, went viral after he told <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spring-break-party-coronavirus-pandemic-miami-beaches/">CBS News</a> that he wasn’t going to coronavirus “stop me from partying.”
&#8220;If I get corona, I get corona. At the end of the day, I&#8217;m not gonna let it stop me from partying,&#8221; the student told the news agency. &#8220;We&#8217;re just out here having a good time. Whatever happens, happens.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2020/03/24/spring-break-party-florida-apologizes-coronavirus-comments/2906379001/">USA Today</a> reports that Sluder has since apologized for the remarks, saying he “wasn’t aware of the severity of my actions and comments.”
“Like many others, I have elderly people who I adore more than anything in the world and other family members who are at risk, and I understand how concerning this disease is for all of us,” said Sluder. “Our generation may feel invincible, like I did when I commented, but we have a responsibility to listen and follow the recommendations in our communities.”
“I will continue to reflect and learn from this and continue to pray for our well-being. I deeply apologize from the bottom of my heart for my insensitivity and unawareness of my actions,” he said.

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Deputies surrounded the house of a Kentucky man who refused to quarantine himself after he tested positive for COVID-19.
&#8220;A Kentucky novel coronavirus patient checked himself out of the hospital against medical advice. So to prevent him from spreading the virus, officials are surrounding his house to keep him there,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/17/us/kentucky-refused-quarantine-coronavirus-trnd/index.html">reported CNN</a> on Tuesday.
In a press conference on Saturday, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear (D) said he does not want to force people into isolation but will do so if they refuse to comply with public health guidelines.
“We have had the first instance of a person who has refused to self-isolate, we have taken steps to force an isolation that will be in their home. It&#8217;s a step I hoped that I&#8217;d never have to take,&#8221; Beshear <a href="https://youtu.be/_fDmPhIMMSo?t=2049" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">said</a>. &#8220;But I can&#8217;t allow one person who we know has this virus to refuse to protect their neighbors.&#8221;
“Be a good neighbor. Do the right thing. That’s all we’re asking of people,” he later added.
Speaking with the <a href="https://www.kystandard.com/content/person-nelson-county-tests-positive-covid-19" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kentucky Standard, </a>Nelson County Sheriff Ramon Pineiroa confirmed that deputies have been dispatched to the man&#8217;s house, though he did not give the residence&#8217;s location. The man was tested at a Louisville hospital and left the facility against medical advice on Friday. He has reportedly been cooperating with police since they were dispatched to his residence.
During his press conference on Tuesday, President Trump stated he was &#8220;not happy&#8221; with people who are refusing to practice social distancing.
&#8220;I’m not happy with those people. But those people are being shouted down by other people. It’s almost like self-policing,” <a href="https://www.mlive.com/coronavirus/2020/03/trump-on-people-gathering-in-crowds-im-not-happy-with-those-people.html">Trump said</a>. “People are not happy when they see other people doing things they’re not supposed to be doing.”
Regarding Americans planning to travel on vacation to countries with minor or no cases of COVID-19, the president advised people to stay home.1
“I would just say enjoy your home. We have to get this problem fixed and then we’ll get back into business really quick,” Trump said. “I would recommend that they enjoy their living room.”
On Monday, the Trump administration laid out <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/03.16.20_coronavirus-guidance_8.5x11_315PM.pdf">new guidelines</a> for Americans to follow over the next two weeks, which include regularly washing hands, covering your cough and sneeze, staying six feet away from people, and avoiding crowds of 10 or more people. People who are sick and exhibiting symptoms were also strongly advised to stay home along with the elderly and people with underlying health conditions.
Given that some residents in certain cities have failed to properly follow guidelines, the possibility of a national quarantine has been floated in some quarters of the internet, though the Trump administration dismissed those notions as rumors on Monday.
“There is an ongoing effort to spread disinformation and cause undue panic,” a senior official in the Trump administration <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-administration-warns-of-foreign-disinformation-campaign-amid-coronavirus-outbreak">told Fox News</a> on Monday. “There is no national quarantine for the United States. It’s important we remain vigilant in ensuring our information is coming from verified sources.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and member of the Trump administration’s coronavirus task force, did say that he favors a national lockdown, strongly encouraging Americans to hunker down while they can.
“I think Americans should be prepared that they are going to have to hunker down significantly more than we as a country are doing,”<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-favors-national-shutdown-you-dont-want-to-be-complacent"> said Fauci</a>.  “Everybody has got to get involved in distancing themselves socially … Everything is on the table. Right now, myself personally, I wouldn’t go to a restaurant. I just wouldn’t because I don’t want to be in a crowded place. I don’t want to be in a situation where I’m going to be all of a sudden self-isolating for 14 days.”

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COVID-19 Patient Refused Quarantine. Deputies Surround His House.

On Saturday, an off-duty newlywed couple who both work for the Elizabethtown, Kentucky police department were out on a “date night” when a man entered the restaurant wearing a mask, and according to police, pointed a gun at the cashier and demanded cash.
That was a mistake; although the husband told his wife to take his phone and call 911 while he acted, she demurred, instead joining him to draw their weapons and rushed at the suspect, forcing him to flee until they ultimately caught him.
As <a href="https://www.wdrb.com/news/video-married-off-duty-elizabethtown-police-officers-recognized-for-catching/article_0ab7ee8e-526e-11ea-a466-2b1e61fcc334.html">WRDB</a> reports, Elizabethtown Police Detective Chase McKeown and his wife, Officer Nicole McKeown, who have been married for six months, spoke at a news conference on Tuesday, where Chase McKeown noted that their “date night” was the result of some advice they had been given at church. He stated, &#8220;At our church, we&#8217;ve been focusing on marriage,&#8221; adding that his church encourages having a &#8220;date night&#8221; once a week.
Thus the couple went out to eat at Raising Cane&#8217;s restaurant in Louisville for a “date night,” revisiting it because it was the first place they had eaten out after their wedding. An arrest report stated that Justin Carter, 30, walked into the restaurant wearing a mask, pointed a gun at the cashier and demanded cash.
Nicole McKeown noted, &#8220;I think we kind of both saw him at the same time,&#8221; adding that she initially thought Carter was wearing the mask because it was flu season. But then she had second thoughts; she recalled, &#8220;I looked at him and said, &#8216;That&#8217;s kind of odd.'&#8221;
When her husband told her to take the phone and call 911, she said, she thought, &#8220;No — I&#8217;m gonna help my husband!&#8221;
After Carter fled, the couple chased after him, catching him a few blocks from the restaurant, where they held him until LMPD officers arrived.
Det. Dan Mason of the Louisville Metro Police Department&#8217;s Robbery Unit lauded the McKeowns for their actions, asserting they acted &#8220;honorably and heroically … We are police officers 24 hours a day, seven days a week, on or off duty.&#8221;
A representative of Raising Cane&#8217;s added, &#8220;We are extremely blessed that they chose to dine with us. It&#8217;s because of good people like Chase and Nicole who give us good hope for tomorrow…we&#8217;ll never be able to thank them enough.&#8221;
Chase McKeown concluded that the laudatory gestures toward him and his wife were unnecessary, stating, &#8220;Maybe it&#8217;s the term &#8216;hero.’ We don&#8217;t feel that way. We just feel like our training kicked in.&#8221; Nicole said they’ll be back at the restaurant again, laughing, &#8220;Oh absolutely. I love Raising Cane&#8217;s.&#8221;
The Elizabethtown Police Department wrote on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/quicksie983/photos/a.10151663833198130/10158205748583130/?type=3&amp;theater">Facebook</a>:
<blockquote>Our current vote for sweetest (and kinda awesome) couple is <a class="profileLink" href="https://www.facebook.com/Etownpd/?__tn__=KH-R&amp;eid=ARB82rGN1lX0bxGpvDcTSSjrn74Tpvh8RWARbNINGHuSPlMyfSlLukVM4swQMv4IArNw8RetIMtQ52Jt&amp;fref=mentions&amp;__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCpsI7o9_zCdU4n2cnTf8VCQTmACMaBXwtRjMqIJF8fAenHlVYmJvtBPftufbLkBF_x9_3kUOzYF5l3E4KpCXQdru9MRJXvQxRuxCqe8pGK9RSJg0kt6sgD2wiNNnUbMrPD1vaFVwS4VUcaJKl1agwLoRrB4fpRYbhFflUw_aDGTLUaC3TX9I6ktUcxZQqb0zvghVl7Kya6JxMsVXyUu0gul8OFsYXwAuaYEdmBe8B2QwI1lmRSgpnv-a11SKBU1e0tiVE8L9K-mOsAdXaNv46qvtMxK2-R2hIzfu3uBTBf7fYJY9jQocKTTL9yx8ZCq0ESYW6kUixjU6YNYBbqFBD2iuTuu6bBZ7ucArZQL1jbZ8BP9XVDeFEswAVvRNcHWADbdgQFu0mFUwhSAqKUNSjOVGnot3YbGfpP0w7GkhjnxB9JX2y4jv2D1jx-XW60cRls-iu5mwnghoTjK2HqthhG3-XD_XKBe8i9vTBFlIZMUdpI8sHRbdOZKn3EhLnOqDl4vFzZEzorkVdVi-CZrh8Yd32zlxLJK0apeBAB-Ob3ohVl6LjKxrZ6I4_eKHFdi8_V_R1Q2mc" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=217670558340146&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdKH-R-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARB82rGN1lX0bxGpvDcTSSjrn74Tpvh8RWARbNINGHuSPlMyfSlLukVM4swQMv4IArNw8RetIMtQ52Jt%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1">Elizabethtown Police Department</a> Detective Chase McKeown and his wife, Officer Nicole McKeown.  The pair thwarted an attempted robbery at a Louisville <a class="profileLink" href="https://www.facebook.com/RaisingCanesLouisville/?__tn__=KH-R&amp;eid=ARC3MoPKIQtYH8ickSMmhKFlM0m9BoGxGgMcaMXUDcPEIVbMz8SZ74pxSGfBcoi5HyVaTw2LVHPzfb8H&amp;fref=mentions&amp;__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCpsI7o9_zCdU4n2cnTf8VCQTmACMaBXwtRjMqIJF8fAenHlVYmJvtBPftufbLkBF_x9_3kUOzYF5l3E4KpCXQdru9MRJXvQxRuxCqe8pGK9RSJg0kt6sgD2wiNNnUbMrPD1vaFVwS4VUcaJKl1agwLoRrB4fpRYbhFflUw_aDGTLUaC3TX9I6ktUcxZQqb0zvghVl7Kya6JxMsVXyUu0gul8OFsYXwAuaYEdmBe8B2QwI1lmRSgpnv-a11SKBU1e0tiVE8L9K-mOsAdXaNv46qvtMxK2-R2hIzfu3uBTBf7fYJY9jQocKTTL9yx8ZCq0ESYW6kUixjU6YNYBbqFBD2iuTuu6bBZ7ucArZQL1jbZ8BP9XVDeFEswAVvRNcHWADbdgQFu0mFUwhSAqKUNSjOVGnot3YbGfpP0w7GkhjnxB9JX2y4jv2D1jx-XW60cRls-iu5mwnghoTjK2HqthhG3-XD_XKBe8i9vTBFlIZMUdpI8sHRbdOZKn3EhLnOqDl4vFzZEzorkVdVi-CZrh8Yd32zlxLJK0apeBAB-Ob3ohVl6LjKxrZ6I4_eKHFdi8_V_R1Q2mc" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=183763148434459&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdKH-R-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARC3MoPKIQtYH8ickSMmhKFlM0m9BoGxGgMcaMXUDcPEIVbMz8SZ74pxSGfBcoi5HyVaTw2LVHPzfb8H%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1">Raising Cane&#8217;s</a> over the weekend. The couple, who met on the job at EPD when he was a patrol officer and she was a dispatcher at the agency, have been married 6 months.</blockquote>
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The news media, which never tires of cake-related controversies, spent some time last week ginning up outrage towards a Christian school in Louisville, Kentucky. According to the headlines, the stodgy bigots over at Whitefield Academy expelled a 15-year-old student for the crime of eating a multi-colored birthday cake.
The headlines were breathless and unanimous:
<a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=11&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiUrP3c8pLnAhVPSN8KHSYnDwAQFjAKegQIAhAB&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Freligion%2F2020%2F01%2F15%2Frainbowcakewhitefieldacademy%2F&amp;usg=AOvVaw16WHM_dWE0BANQg_rOvYae">Christian school expels teen after she posed with rainbow birthday cake, mother says.</a>
<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/whitefield-academy-kentucky-christian-school-expels-15-year-old-over-rainbow-cake-mom-says">Kentucky Christian School Expels 15-Year-Old Over Rainbow Cake, Mom Says.</a>
<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/01/14/kentucky-christian-school-expels-girl-gay-rainbow-cake-mom-says/4468374002/">Christian school expelled student over a &#8216;gay&#8217; rainbow cake, family says.</a>
<a href="https://nypost.com/2020/01/15/teen-expelled-from-christian-school-after-rainbow-shirt-cake-photo/">Teen expelled from Christian school after rainbow shirt, cake photo.</a>
<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/christian-school-whitefield-academy-expels-teen-girl-rainbow-sweater-birthday-cake-violate-christian-values/">Christian school expels teen for rainbow sweater and birthday cake that violate &#8220;Christian values.&#8221;</a>
And so on.
Some of the headlines include the &#8220;mother says&#8221; qualifier, while others simply assert the family&#8217;s claims as objective fact. But in either case, the point is to paint the school as clear villains in the situation.
Here&#8217;s how the body of the CBS report, linked above, frames the story:
<blockquote>A teenager from Kentucky celebrated her 15th birthday last month by blowing out the candles on a rainbow cake while wearing a rainbow sweater. After her mother posted a photo from her birthday party on Facebook, the teen was expelled from her Christian high school.
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Kenney&#8217;s mom, Kimberly Alford, told the Louisville Courier-Journal that she received an email from Whitefield Academy&#8217;s head of school, Bruce Jacobson, expelling her daughter. He wrote that the picture she posted on Facebook &#8220;demonstrates a posture of morality and cultural acceptance contrary to that of Whitefield Academy&#8217;s beliefs.&#8221;
While the rainbow flag is a symbol of LGBTQ rights, Alford said when she ordered the cake, the design was described as having &#8220;assorted colors&#8221; and was not meant to have a deeper meaning.</blockquote>
Already, even without any more information than what the media has deigned to provide, a thoughtful person should be extremely skeptical. It is not a simple or easy process to expel a student. At a private school, the expulsion comes with a financial cost. You aren&#8217;t just kicking the student to the curb, but her tuition alongside her. Why would a school go through that trouble and absorb that cost over something as trivial as a cake? And if they do issue expulsions so easily, shouldn&#8217;t there be dozens of other stories of students getting tossed out for similarly arbitrary reasons? There are almost always two sides to a story like this. Could this be the exception where the first version of the story, as presented by a partisan for one side of the dispute, is entirely accurate and faithful to the facts? Maybe. But probably not.
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Social media is not a place for this sort of healthy skepticism, so thousands of people hopped on the outrage train and issued angry tweets about the stupidity and pettiness of this school, in particular, and Christian schools, in general, and Christians, in general. And then, after the reputation of Whitefield Academy had been sufficiently injured, the train moved on and the media lost interest. The outrage mob always descends like a tornado, rips everything to shreds, and dissipates as quickly as it formed. By the time the other side of the story is presented, nobody cares any longer.
Predictably, the other side of the story in this case, <a href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/the-rainbow-cake-girl-what-the-media-are-hiding/">as reported by Rod Dreher over the weekend</a>, paints a very different picture from the one offered by the family and the media. After looking at the student&#8217;s social media posts, talking to insiders at the school, and reading the school&#8217;s public statements, Dreher reports that the student was allegedly a perpetual troublemaker who had been given numerous warnings about her behavior. She also allegedly promoted the LGBT lifestyle both at school and in her social media posts. The rainbow cake and sweater were a part of this pattern — and by far not the most egregious example of it — and it is this pattern of flouting the rules and violating school policy that got her expelled. The apparently purposeful trolling she did with the cake may have been the last straw, but it is dishonest to report that it was the only straw.
School principal Dr. Bruce Jacobson, while limited in his ability to defend his actions due to confidentiality concerns, <a href="https://www.wave3.com/2020/01/15/whitefield-academy-defends-decision-expel-student-after-picture-rainbow-sweater-birthday-cake/">explained</a> in a letter to parents that the student had been specifically warned &#8220;that any further promotion, celebration, or any other actions and attitudes that are counter to Whitefield’s philosophy would not be tolerated.&#8221; I suppose you could choose to believe that the rainbow cake and sweater weren&#8217;t intended to promote or celebrate anything, and didn&#8217;t have any &#8220;deeper meaning&#8221; at all, as the mother contends, but Dreher&#8217;s report makes that extremely hard to believe. From his piece:
<blockquote>When Alford says her daughter “is no angel,” and confirms that she has had “disciplinary issues,” she’s understating matters. My understanding is that Kayla Kenney had a long, specific list of repeated infractions — bullying, disrespecting teachers, vaping in school (as Alford acknowledges), and so forth. Part of what she has allegedly done is promoting LGBT consciousness in the school, including aggression on that front. I’m trying to be delicate here, but I can tell you that she has transgressed against other students on this front, to promote bisexuality. For example, she allegedly drew rainbows and wrote slogans like “bi pride” on other kids’ papers, and gave at least two different girls the impression that she was sexually harassing them. Kayla has been presenting herself as gay on her Instagram account.</blockquote>
Granted, many people will feel that expelling a student for promoting the LGBT lifestyle isn&#8217;t any better than expelling her for eating a cake. But one&#8217;s personal feelings about Christian teaching on homosexuality are irrelevant. This is a private Christian school. In that role, it understandably seeks to advance Christian teaching on all matters, including sexuality. If you do not agree with those teachings, if you think those teachings are barbaric and bigoted and so on, you are quite free to attend any other school. Nobody forced this student&#8217;s parents to enroll her in this particular academic institution. Louisville is not some outpost in the wilderness with no other schools around for hundreds of miles. This family must have had many options. They chose the one place where waving a gay flag will get you into trouble. They gave this place their money. They signed an agreement swearing to follow its rules. And then, apparently, they decided they didn&#8217;t like the rules anymore. Whose fault is that? Not the school&#8217;s, as far as I can tell.

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WALSH: Media Claims A Christian School Expelled A Student For Her Rainbow Birthday Cake. Now The Truth Has Come Out.

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A Kentucky state representative legislator has revived a bill that would ensure restrooms, locker rooms, and shower rooms in the state’s public schools would be designated for either males or females, thus preventing members of the opposite biological sex from sharing the facilities. The bill would also permit students to sue if school personnel gave a transgender student access to share those facilities with the opposite biological sex.
The bill, titled the Kentucky Student Privacy Act, or <a href="https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/20rs/prefiled/BR1020.html">Bill Request 1020</a>, was revived by state Rep. David Hale, and <a href="https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/20RS/BR1020/orig_bill.pdf">states</a>, “Allowing students to use restrooms, locker rooms, or showers that are reserved for students of a different biological sex: (a) Will create a significant potential for disruption of school activities and unsafe conditions; and (b) Will create potential embarrassment, shame, and psychological injury to students.”
The bill adds, “Parents have a reasonable expectation that schools will not allow minor children to be viewed in various states of undress by members of the opposite biological sex, nor allow minor children to view members of the opposite sex in various states of undress; and schools have a duty to respect and protect the privacy rights of students, including the right not to be compelled to undress or be unclothed in the presence of members of the opposite biological sex.”
The bill would require school personnel to provide separate, private areas designated for use by students based on their biological sex in any situation requiring the students to be undressed. It makes allowances for transgender students by offering the “best available accommodation,” as long as it was not “designated for use by students of the opposite biological sex while students of the opposite biological sex are present or could be present.”
The bill permits a student “a private cause of action against the school if school personnel: Gave the person encountered permission to use facilities of the opposite biological sex; or failed to take reasonable steps to prohibit the person encountered from using facilities designated for use by the opposite biological sex.”
Chris Harman, the director of the Fairness Campaign, complained to the <a href="https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2019/12/09/kentucky-legislation-would-set-bathroom-rules-transgender-kids/2632897001/">Courier-Journal</a> that the bill was “political pandering” to “an ultra-conservative minority,” adding, “It’s gross, it’s disgusting, it’s dangerous and it’s deadly … I wish legislators would mind their own business in the bathroom.” He continued, “At the end of the day, what that says is that ‘You are so different that the only accommodation we are willing to make is to make you use a special restroom, a different restroom,’ which once more isolates the transgender youth and makes them additionally vulnerable targets. So if I am the only trans kid in school and I can only use the single stall locking bathroom on the third floor, everybody knows that that’s where I’m gonna go to go to the restroom. And, again, it’s easy to target someone if that’s what you’re looking for.&#8221;
Harman told <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/kentucky-bill-would-let-students-sue-over-transgender-bathroom-use-n1101651">NBC News</a>, “It’s an election year, so this bill has Hale pandering to the lowest of his base. This bill should in no way be a priority for the Kentucky Legislature &#8230; the Kentucky Student Privacy Act paints a target on trans kids’ back and sends all the wrong messages.”
The Kentucky legislature is slated to return on January 7.
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On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to a 2017 pro-life law in the Kentucky requiring doctors to perform ultrasounds and play the sound of the baby&#8217;s heartbeat to women seeking abortion.
&#8220;The Supreme Court has allowed Kentucky&#8217;s ultrasound requirement law to go into effect!&#8221; posted Live Action founder and prominent pro-life advocate Lila Rose. &#8220;When women have the chance to see the humanity of their child &amp; hear their heartbeat, many reject the violence of abortion.&#8221;
&#8220;This is a great win for Kentucky &amp; our nation,&#8221; she added.
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&#8220;Kentucky argued the law is &#8216;simple and straightforward,&#8217; calling it part of an &#8216;informed-consent process.&#8217; The law, Kentucky said, &#8216;does nothing more than require that women who are considering an abortion be provided with information that is truthful, non-misleading and relevant to their decision of whether to have an abortion,'&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/09/politics/abortion-supreme-court-kentucky-ultrasound/index.html">CNN</a> reported.
CNN noted that the court &#8220;rejected the case without comment or noted dissent by any of the justices.&#8221;
Pro-life advocates praised the Supreme Court for their decision to uphold the Kentucky law.
“March for Life applauds the U.S. Supreme Court decision today upholding a Kentucky ultrasound law,&#8221; March for Life President Jeanne Mancini said in a statement sent to The Daily Wire. &#8220;Women facing an unexpected pregnancy deserve to have as much medically and technically accurate information as possible when they are making what could be the most important decision of their life.”
President and CEO of American United for Life (AUL) Catherine Glenn Foster said the decision &#8220;confirms that women deserve the truth.&#8221;
“Americans United for Life hails the final legal victory today of Kentucky’s common-sense informed consent provision simply ensuring that abortion facilities offer women who are thinking about abortion visual, ultrasound confirmation of the humanity of the life in their womb,&#8221; Glenn Foster said in a statement sent to The Daily Wire. 
&#8220;Consistent with the Supreme Court’s direction that mothers considering abortion may be given accurate, nonmisleading information about abortion and the nature of human life, today’s decision confirms that women deserve the truth, and cannot give real informed consent to an abortion unless facilities are transparent and honest about what abortion really is,&#8221; the AUL president added. &#8220;That’s a right that was denied to me when I was 19 years old and making a difficult, life-changing decision, and I am so relieved that going forward, the women of Kentucky will have the opportunity I never did.”
&#8220;The fact that there were no recorded dissents from any of the justices is notable,&#8221; added Daily Wire Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer, a former federal law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. &#8220;That ought to help demonstrate the common-sense, straightforward nature of Kentucky&#8217;s law.&#8221;
Pro-abortion advocates had claimed Kentucky&#8217;s pro-life law violates the First Amendment by mandating abortion-seeking women see their child and hear their heartbeat before going through with the life-ending procedure.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that this was nonsense.
&#8220;As a First Amendment matter, there is nothing suspect with a State&#8217;s requiring a doctor, before performing an abortion, to make truthful, non-misleading factual disclosures, relevant to informed consent, even if those disclosures relate to unborn life and have the effect of persuading the patient not to have an abortion,&#8221; the three-judge Sixth Circuit panel said in its ruling, CNN noted.

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) broke down the recent election results in Kentucky during an interview on Sunday, explaining why he believes, contrary to the narrative in the media, there was actually a &#8220;red-wave&#8221; in the state. Also during the interview, Paul highlighted how existing U.S. law could actually protect President Donald Trump in the Democrats&#8217; impeachment inquiry into his July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
&#8220;Let me start with the Kentucky results first, before we get into the events of later this week, just your initial reactions,&#8221; NBC &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; host Chuck Todd said. &#8220;Matt Bevin, do you see his loss as something bigger than Matt Bevin, about the Republican Party as a whole?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, when you look at all the races, there were six statewide races, we won five out of six. Republicans won five out of six,&#8221; Paul responded. &#8220;We did lose the governor&#8217;s race. We were disappointed in it. But the interesting thing is we beat a lot of other candidates that no one expected us to. So actually, in many ways, there was sort of a red wave in Kentucky.&#8221;
&#8220;I think it was mostly particularly about one race. And I think the teachers were very unhappy. He tried to fix the pension but got crossways with the teachers,&#8221; Paul continued. &#8220;And I think the teachers&#8217; anger came out. But I think he was trying to do the right thing, which is save the pension for the teachers. But it&#8217;s tough. When you ask people to pay more to keep their pension in place, people get unhappy.&#8221;
Paul also highlighted that in some of the counties where Bevin lost, other Republicans who won in the election won in those counties by over 60%.
On the issue of impeachment, Paul noted that Americans want fairness and that they are not &#8220;going to judge fairness, when they&#8217;re accusing President Trump of the same thing Joe Biden did, threatening the aid, if some kind of corruption&#8217;s not investigated.&#8221;
&#8220;But if it were me, I wouldn&#8217;t give them the aid, because we don&#8217;t have the money,&#8221; Paul added. &#8220;We have to actually borrow the money from China to send it to Ukraine. So I&#8217;m against the aid. And I think it&#8217;s a mistake to do the aid.&#8221;
Paul then highlighted a defense of Trump&#8217;s actions that is likely to pick up steam in upcoming weeks, saying that current U.S. law prevents the U.S. from providing aid to corrupt countries, and so Trump would have to ask for an investigation into the Bidens, who Trump believes is corrupt, in order to be able to provide the aid.
&#8220;Foreign aid, by law, can only go out to countries that are not corrupt,&#8221; Paul said. &#8220;So, if you think that a country is acting in a corrupt way, a president can always withhold aid until the corruption is fixed. So, you&#8217;re going to have to get into the mind of Trump and his advisers and say, &#8216;Well, he didn&#8217;t really believe that the Bidens were corrupt.’ I think he absolutely does. I think you could give him a lie detector test and say, &#8216;Do you think the Bidens were corrupt? And do you think you were investigating corruption, and that corruption is in the law, that you can&#8217;t give aid to a country that has corruption?'&#8221;
&#8220;This ends up being a policy debate and a partisan debate,” Paul continued. &#8220;And it has nothing to do with legality or illegality or impeachment. It&#8217;s purely a partisan way of trying to overturn the election.&#8221;
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It was a mixed bag for Republicans on Tuesday — but not in Virginia, where the GOP was swept completely out of power for the first time in over two decades.
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&#8220;The Democratic Party won control of the Virginia General Assembly on Tuesday, giving the party total control of the Old Dominion’s state government for the first time since 1994,&#8221; <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/469164-democrats-flip-virginia-state-senate">The Hill</a> reports. &#8220;Democratic candidates outpaced Republican incumbents and nominees in the three most populous regions of the state, picking up seats in Hampton Roads, Richmond and the surrounding suburbs, and the fast-growing Washington suburbs.&#8221;
In the Virginia Senate, Democrats have won at least 21 out of the 40 seats, wresting control of the chamber from the Republicans. The same story played out in the House of Delegates, where the Democrats now control at least 53 of the 100 seats, likewise flipping the chamber.
With a Democrat, embattled though he may be, in the Executive Mansion, the Democrats now have complete control of the state.
&#8220;Democrats had a significant fund-raising advantage in Tuesday&#8217;s races, while Republicans had hoped to hold on to suburban seats that have sent its lawmakers to Richmond for decades,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/05/us/elections/results-virginia-general-elections.html">The New York Times</a> reports. In a follow-up <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/us/politics/election-day-2019.html">analysis</a>, the Times notes that Virginia &#8220;is the only Southern state the president lost in 2016, and Republicans faced a series of difficult races in metropolitan districts.&#8221;
While the GOP has lost Virginia and appears to have narrowly lost the governorship in Kentucky — which would be a significant victory for Democrats though against a widely unpopular incumbent — the party has maintained Mississippi gubernatorial control.
Republican Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves defeated Democratic state Attorney General Jim Hood in the contest for who would replace outgoing Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R). With both the Mississippi House and Senate in Republican control, the GOP has maintained its firm grip on the state.
Trump took to Twitter late Tuesday to celebrate Reeves&#8217; big win in Mississippi. &#8220;Congratulations to [Tate Reeves] on winning Governor of the Great State of Mississippi,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1191941077646876672">tweeted</a>. &#8220;Our big Rally on Friday night moved the numbers from a tie to a big WIN. Great reaction under pressure Tate!&#8221;
Trump also made sure to point out that while incumbent Republican Gov. Matthew Bevin — described by NBC News as &#8220;one of the least popular governors in the country&#8221; — appears to have been edged out by Democrat Andy Beshear in Kentucky, the GOP enjoyed &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-celebrates-a-lot-of-winning-in-kentucky-gop-edged-out-in-governors-race-sweep-the-rest">a lot of winning</a>&#8221; in the state.
“Won 5 out of 6 elections in Kentucky, including 5 great candidates that I spoke for and introduced last night,” Trump tweeted early Wednesday. “[Matt Bevin] picked up at least 15 points in last days, but perhaps not enough (Fake News will blame Trump!). Winning in Mississippi Governor race!”
“Our big Kentucky Rally on Monday night had a massive impact on all of the races,” Trump wrote in a follow-up tweet. “The increase in Governors race was at least 15 points, and maybe 20!” Backing up his claim about the surge for Bevin, Trump retweeted a post by Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel, who wrote: “In Kentucky, the governor was down 17 points. President Trump helped lift the entire ticket, winning 5 of 6 statewide races so far!”
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GOP Loses Virginia Completely, Keeps Full Control Of Mississippi

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While Democrats are cheering what appears to be a razor-thin win for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andy Beshear in Kentucky, which would be a major pick-up for Democrats, President Trump and the RNC are declaring victory in the state nonetheless after sweeping all of the other races and seeing what they say is a double-digit surge for embattled, unpopular Republican Gov. Matthew Bevin following Trump&#8217;s efforts to rally voters.
&#8220;Won 5 out of 6 elections in Kentucky, including 5 great candidates that I spoke for and introduced last night,&#8221; Trump tweeted early Wednesday. &#8220;[Matt Bevin] picked up at least 15 points in last days, but perhaps not enough (Fake News will blame Trump!). Winning in Mississippi Governor race!&#8221;
&#8220;Our big Kentucky Rally on Monday night had a massive impact on all of the races,&#8221; Trump wrote in a follow-up tweet. &#8220;The increase in Governors race was at least 15 points, and maybe 20!&#8221; Backing up his claim about the surge for Bevin, Trump retweeted a post by Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel, who wrote: &#8220;In Kentucky, the governor was down 17 points. President Trump helped lift the entire ticket, winning 5 of 6 statewide races so far!&#8221;
As predicted by Trump, the media has indeed already begun painting the unpopular Bevin&#8217;s likely loss as a failure by the president. &#8220;Trump couldn&#8217;t save the unpopular Bevin after campaigning with him the night before the election in Lexington, where the president told supporters a loss by the GOP governor would be portrayed as Trump&#8217;s having suffered &#8216;the greatest defeat in the history of the world,'&#8221; <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/elections-kentucky-mississippi-test-trump-s-political-power-n1075581">NBC News</a> reported late Tuesday night.
But Trump is pointing to the positive. &#8220;A lot of winning in Kentucky. Check out the numbers,&#8221; Trump wrote in a follow-up tweet linking to the latest numbers from Kentucky&#8217;s <a href="https://wchstv.com/news/election-results">ABC 8</a>.
As of Wednesday morning, Beshear (D) is edging out Bevin (R) by just over 5,000 votes, 709,673 &#8211; 704,523. That Bevin appears to have lost the race is unsurprising. As NBC notes, Bevin is &#8220;one of the least popular governors in the country.&#8221;
The rest of the races are firmly in Republicans&#8217; hands:
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<li>Secretary of State: Michael Adams (R) defeated Heather French Henry (D) 52-48%.</li>
<li>Attorney General: Daniel Cameron (R) trounced Gregory Stumbo (D) 58-42%.</li>
<li>Auditor: Mike Harmon (R) easily defeated Sheri Donahue (D) 56-41%.</li>
<li>Treasurer: Allison Ball (R) demolished Michael Bowman (D) 61-39%</li>
<li>Ag Commissioner: Ryan Quarles (R) buried Robert Haley Conway (D) 58-39%.</li>
<li>House District 18: Samara Heavrin (R) downed Becky Miller (D) 60-40%.</li>
<li>House District 63: Kimberly Bantra (R) won by the biggest margin of the day over Josh Blair (D) 63-37%.</li>
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As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-first-african-american-wins-kentucky-ag-race-hes-a-republican">The Daily Wire</a> reported, Daniel Cameron&#8217;s sizable victory for Attorney General is historic. Cameron, 33, is not only the first Republican elected to the position in more than 70 years, he is the first African-American to ever be elected to the position and &#8220;the first African-American voted individually to state-wide office in Kentucky history,&#8221; as LEX 18 put it.
&#8220;It’s really heartwarming and encouraging when folks regardless of political affiliation walk up to you and express support for the idea that you put yourself out there and made a decision to put your name on a ballot,&#8221; Cameron said Tuesday. &#8220;I can hit the ground running. I bring that experience to the table. I’ve been a trial lawyer for over 40 years. I’ve prosecuted both criminal and civil cases through my career. So experience we think matters in the attorney general office.&#8221;
Cameron, who ran on a solidly conservative platform, appeared at a big rally in Kentucky with Trump earlier in the week at which the candidate declared that &#8220;Kentucky is Trump country.&#8221;
&#8220;We are proud to stand with you on pro-life issues in here in the Commonwealth, we are going to stand up for those who cannot speak for themselves,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Mr. President, we are going to stand with you in protecting the Second Amendment rights of all Kentuckians, and Mr. President, I make a personal commitment to you as the next Attorney General, we are going to make sure that Kentucky is never a sanctuary state. Thank you.&#8221;
In his series of tweets Wednesday morning, Trump predicted an easy victory for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in 2020. &#8220;Based on the Kentucky results, Mitch McConnell will win BIG in Kentucky next year!&#8221;
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ElectionNight?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ElectionNight</a> Won 5 out of 6 elections in Kentucky, including 5 great candidates that I spoke for and introduced last night. <a href="https://twitter.com/MattBevin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MattBevin</a> picked up at least 15 points in last days, but perhaps not enough (Fake News will blame Trump!). Winning in Mississippi Governor race!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1191937709364928513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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A lot of winning in Kentucky. Check out the numbers. <a href="https://t.co/xcXIzIwylg">https://t.co/xcXIzIwylg</a>
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1191942342879666178?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Our big Kentucky Rally on Monday night had a massive impact on all of the races. The increase in Governors race was at least 15 points, and maybe 20! Will be in Louisiana for <a href="https://twitter.com/EddieRispone?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EddieRispone</a> on Wednesday night. Big Rally!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1191947091461001216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Based on the Kentucky results, Mitch McConnell <a href="https://twitter.com/senatemajldr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@senatemajldr</a> will win BIG in Kentucky next year!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1192062007324938240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Trump Celebrates ‘A Lot Of Winning In Kentucky’: GOP Edged Out In Governor’s Race, Sweeps The Rest

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On Thursday, the Kentucky Supreme Court issued a unanimous 6-0 ruling in favor of a Lexington-based print shop owner who refused to print messages that violated his deeply held religious beliefs.
The case dates back to 2012, when the Gay and Lesbian Services Organization (GLSO) filed a complaint with the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Human Rights Commission against print shop owner Blaine Adamson, who, citing his Christian beliefs, declined a request to print shirts promoting the Lexington Gay Pride Festival. Adamson reportedly declined politely and referred the organization to another printer who was willing to print the shirts. The GLSO complained that Adamson was discriminating against LGBT customers by refusing to promote the event.
In 2014, the commission ruled that Adamson must print messages conflicting with his religious convictions. The court system subsequently ruled repeatedly against the commission&#8217;s order, until the case eventually made its way to the state&#8217;s highest court.
The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), who helped represent Adamson in the case, maintained that the business owner has demonstrated that he &#8220;serves all people, including LGBT customers,&#8221; as he did when his shop, Hands On Originals, printed promotional materials for an openly lesbian singer who performed at the Lexington&#8217;s 2012 Pride festival. Adamson also has taken a consistent stand on the issue of free speech, ADF underscored, refusing to print other messages that likewise conflict with his Christian beliefs, including shirts advertising a strip club, shirts containing violent messages, and &#8220;pens promoting a sexually explicit video.&#8221;
ADF Senior Counsel Jim Campbell, who argued on behalf of Adamson in front of the Kentucky Supreme Court, said in a statement released Thursday that the unanimous decision in the Christian shop owner&#8217;s favor &#8220;makes clear that this case never should have happened.&#8221;
&#8220;For more than seven years, government officials used this case to turn Blaine’s life upside down, even though we told them from the beginning that the lawsuit didn’t comply with the city’s own legal requirements,” said Campbell, in a statement included in an ADF <a href="http://www.adfmedia.org/News/PRDetail/9254">news release</a> Thursday. &#8220;The First Amendment protects Blaine’s right to continue serving all people while declining to print messages that violate his faith. Justice David Buckingham recognized this in his concurring opinion, and no member of the court disagreed with that.&#8221;
The ruling by Kentucky&#8217;s highest court, ADF argues in the release, &#8220;highlights why the U.S. Supreme Court should take up the important First Amendment issue at the heart of the case and decide whether governments may force creative professionals who serve everyone to print messages or create art that violates their beliefs.&#8221;
The legal defense organization also notes that the valuing of free speech rights crosses the left-right divide. Adamson received &#8220;broad public support, including from lesbians who own a print shop in New Jersey and agree that promotional printers shouldn’t be forced to print messages they consider objectionable,&#8221; ADF highlights in the release.
Other states expressed support for Adamson&#8217;s First Amendment right to decline printing messages that violate his beliefs. Thirteen friend-of-the-court briefs were sent to the Supreme Court supporting Adamson, ADF notes, while only one was sent in support of the commission&#8217;s initial ruling.
In a statement, attorney Bryan Beauman, who worked with ADF on the case, chided the commission for having &#8220;wasted taxpayer dollars and judicial resources by pressing this complaint in the first place and then appealing it all the way to the Kentucky Supreme Court.&#8221;

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Conservatives are seeking to underscore Democrats&#8217; radical gender policies, and its destructive implications for girls and women in particular, in a new hard-hitting ad supporting Republican Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin. The conservative is in a hotly-contested race against Democratic challenger Attorney General Andy Beshear.
With election day creeping up on November 5, American Principles Project (APP) Super PAC &#8220;Campaign for American Principles&#8221; released an ad Monday showcasing a grim world wherein Beshear-supported gender policies leave young female athletes behind. In the clip, which can be viewed below, young female track runners are blown out by a male competitor who identifies as female.
&#8220;All female athletes want is a fair shot in competition, at a scholarship, at a title, at victory,&#8221; a narrator says. &#8220;What if that shot was taken away by a competitor who claims they’re a girl who was born a boy?&#8221;
&#8220;Andy Beshear supports legislation that would destroy girls’ sports. He calls it &#8216;equality.&#8217; Maybe. But is it fair?&#8221; the female narrator continues.
The ad closes out urging citizens to vote against Beshear, noting he&#8217;s &#8220;too extreme for Kentucky,” and links to <a href="https://extremeandybeshear.com/">ExtremeAndyBeshear.com</a>.
If the premise seems far-fetched, reconsider the reality that is already on the ground. Soon after the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference adopted a policy allowing &#8220;gender identity&#8221; to trump biology in athletics, high school girls were smoked by female-identifying biologically male track athletes — derailing vital collegiate opportunities in the process.
&#8220;It&#8217;s scientifically proven that males are built to be physically stronger than females. It&#8217;s unfair to put someone who is biologically a male, who has not undergone anything in terms of hormone therapy, against cis-gender girls,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50501/feds-probe-whether-conn-transgender-athlete-policy-amanda-prestigiacomo">said</a> track athlete Selina Soule. The teenager took eighth place in a high-stakes high school track competition where two biological males spanked the field; Soule missed an opportunity to compete in front of college coaches by two places.
Moreover, in Ohio, parents were recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/27309/parents-lose-custody-child-refusing-support-amanda-prestigiacomo">stripped of custody</a> when they opposed their child undergoing experimental sex-change procedures.
Unlike Bevin, a solid conservative standing strong to protect females-only spaces and parental rights against the Left&#8217;s redefining of gender, Beshear is all-in on legislation like the deceptively named <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47176/hammer-house-democrats-equality-act-both-josh-hammer">federal &#8220;Equality Act&#8221;</a> and Kentucky &#8220;Fairness&#8221; bill, which &#8220;would destroy women&#8217;s sports, eliminate parental rights, and allow men to take advantage of women through loopholes in said legislation,&#8221; APP Director of Policy and Government Affairs Jon Schweppe told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;You may not know it, but the truth is that Extreme Andy Beshear supports forcing your daughters to compete against males in sports,&#8221; ExtremeAndyBeshear.com reads. &#8220;And already, parents in nearby Ohio lost custody when their child was encouraged to undergo experimental sex-change procedures. Yet Beshear refuses to support a parental rights bill that would protect families from this abuse. Beshear is too extreme for Kentucky.&#8221;
The site notes that Beshear refused to support a bill protecting parents&#8217; rights when it &#8220;came into conflict with his radical &#8216;equality&#8217; agenda.&#8221;
&#8220;When a child is struggling with mental health problems and expresses confusion about their gender to a teacher or school administrator, should the school keep it a secret from the child&#8217;s parents?&#8221; the site continues. &#8220;Should government bureaucrats and medical professionals make medical decisions for a child against the wishes of the child&#8217;s parents by encouraging a child to take experimental &#8216;gender-changing&#8217; drugs that permanently alter the child&#8217;s body?”
Schweppe put out a warning shot at Democrats. &#8220;Our plan is to show how vulnerable Democrats are on these issues and demonstrate how effective it can be for the GOP to message on them in 2020,&#8221; he told The Daily Wire. &#8220;This is about putting extreme Democrats on notice: We&#8217;re coming for you.&#8221;
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WATCH: New Ad In Kentucky Gubernatorial Race Scorches Democrats On Radical Gender Policy

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Out-of-work miners blocking a load of coal from leaving a remote part of southeastern Kentucky have been <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206251239636497&amp;set=a.4071340798461&amp;type=3&amp;theater">told</a> by their lawyers that the matter won’t be resolved until October at the earliest, as a federal bankruptcy court <a href="https://www.wymt.com/content/news/Court-orders-Blackjewel-negotiators-to-resolve-matters-outside-of-court-560079481.html">wants</a> negotiators to reach an agreement without judicial intervention.
Demonstrators have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50230/standoff-kentucky-miners-block-train-loaded-1-jeffrey-cawood">occupied a set of railroad tracks</a> in Harlan County since July 29 after Blackjewel LLC issued bad checks to hundreds of coal workers in the area before abruptly declaring bankruptcy. Some miners are owed more than <a href="https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article233956317.html">three weeks</a> in back pay and have <a href="https://www.wymt.com/content/news/Date-for-next-Blackjewel--558742851.html">vowed</a> to continue with the blockade until they are paid what they earned. The parked coal, which was initially <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/blackjewel-miners-kentucky-protest-after-abrupt-bankruptcy-leaves-workers-without-pay-2019-08-01/">reported</a> to be worth about $1 million, was sold before the company filed for bankruptcy, <a href="https://www.harlanenterprise.net/2019/08/23/judge-delays-ruling-on-blackjewel-coal/">according</a> to Blackjewel lawyers.
&#8220;If we didn’t go to the bargaining table this would drag on, and that’s intolerable,&#8221; <a href="https://www.wtvq.com/2019/09/15/blackjewel-coal-miners-protest-continues/?fbclid=IwAR2Wo8NX-iQa_Gj3lsv_EB7XWb-GebCECZTtwNIkZf-ZtUKG7beJeEPWVdw">said</a> Ned Pillersdorf, an attorney representing several former Blackjewel coal miners. &#8220;We’ve got to get this resolved sooner rather than later. The miners are running out of money.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">It’s busy on Day 47 of the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Blackjewel?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Blackjewel</a> protest as coal miners gather round to hear an update from their lawyers. It’s not looking good. These miners protesting for fair pay may be here til October. <a href="https://t.co/83I24XO0bN">pic.twitter.com/83I24XO0bN</a>
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Pillersdorf said he met with about fifty miners and their families at the protest site over the weekend. He <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206255939353987&amp;set=a.4071340798461&amp;type=3">told</a> them his legal team had “shifted gears into a negotiation strategy” with Blackjewel because &#8220;Murphy’s law has kicked in,&#8221; claiming &#8220;an intense battle&#8221; between the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and Blackjewel had brought the bankruptcy proceedings “to a virtual halt.”
On August 5, the first day of Blackjewel’s bankruptcy hearing, Acting Labor Secretary Patrick Pizzella <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50477/trump-administration-wants-train-loaded-1-million-jeffrey-cawood">filed an emergency motion</a> with the court requesting the blockaded shipment stay put. The DOL <a href="https://www.heraldcourier.com/news/local/judge-issues-temporary-restraining-order-to-prevent-movement-of-blackjewel/article_8048ada7-f5e4-53fd-83dc-8b231816b194.html">argued</a> the coal is considered &#8220;hot goods&#8221; and must be &#8220;cooled&#8221; — meaning those who mined it are paid their owed wages before the product can be transported in interstate commerce, per federal law. The agency asked former Blackjewel miners to testify at an evidentiary hearing earlier this month. Blackjewel lawyers <a href="https://twitter.com/ConnorWYMT/status/1169322932465782787">claimed</a> there is no way of knowing whether the coal in question was mined by the individuals who testified. They said the load, which fills an <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206223290057775&amp;set=a.4071340798461&amp;type=3&amp;theater">estimated</a> 75 train cars, should be transferred to its buyer soon before losing more value from oxidation. West Virginia Public Broadcasting reports that the bankruptcy judge recently <a href="https://www.wvpublic.org/post/timeline-briefs-set-blackjewel-hot-goods-case-miner-pay-remains-murky#stream/0">set a timeline</a> to resolve the &#8220;hot goods&#8221; dispute, giving the DOL and Blackjewel until September 23 to submit a series of briefs to the court, with a final set due on October 1.
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206245572254816&amp;set=a.2207908653822&amp;type=3&amp;theater">According</a> to Pillersdorf, the lengthy process has &#8220;effectively prevented&#8221; re-start operations at former Blackjewel mines in Harlan County that could present job opportunities for laid-off miners.
In an <a href="https://www.wtvq.com/2019/09/15/blackjewel-coal-miners-protest-continues/?fbclid=IwAR2Wo8NX-iQa_Gj3lsv_EB7XWb-GebCECZTtwNIkZf-ZtUKG7beJeEPWVdw">interview</a> with ABC News’ affiliate in Lexington, former Blackjewel coal worker Chris Rowe said, &#8220;You’ll have setbacks in anything that you do.&#8221;
&#8220;The way that we try to look at it, a few little setbacks will make us try that much harder. You can’t give up, don’t lay down and we’re not going to,&#8221; he continued.
If the miners and Blackjewel cannot reach an agreement by October 1 through &#8220;good faith negotiations,&#8221; there will be mediation with a federal magistrate, <a href="https://www.wymt.com/content/news/Court-orders-Blackjewel-negotiators-to-resolve-matters-outside-of-court-560079481.html">according</a> to a court order filed last Wednesday.
Pillersdorf said he has also filed an adversary class action lawsuit on behalf of the miners against former Blackjewel CEO Jeff Hoops, his son, Blackjewel, and the Lexington Coal Company, LLC.
&#8220;We are certainly going to pursue this claim in that we made it clear in our pleadings that we believe the bankruptcy filing is simply a Jeff Hoops scheme to shed debt,&#8221; Pillersdorf <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206245572254816&amp;set=a.2207908653822&amp;type=3&amp;theater">said</a> last week.
<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-battle-for-a-paycheck-in-kentucky-coal-country">According</a> to the New Yorker, &#8220;Hoops is currently building a resort in his home state of West Virginia, called the Grand Patrician, named after his wife, Patricia.&#8221;
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Two coal minors depicted in Kentucky Senate hopeful Amy McGrath’s campaign ad are demanding that the Democratic candidate stop using their image for partisan politics.
Christopher Thacker, the attorney for coal miners Randy Robbins and Albrow Hall, sent a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6382857-2144-001.html">cease and desist letter</a> to McGrath’s campaign on Wednesday after a video of the duo was — unknowingly to them — used in the political advertisement.
“They are personally offended at seeing their images being used in a political attack ad that does not reflect their personal feelings or beliefs,” Thacker wrote in the letter. “It is simply wrong for the McGrath Campaign to use individual miners suffering from black lung disease as political pawns without their permission or consent.”
Robbins and Hall, two members of their local chapter of the Black Lung Association, participated in a trip to the nation’s capital to meet with lawmakers over the summer as part of an effort to urge Congress to reinstate a higher excise tax on coal companies that would subsequently help fund their medical care.
McGrath’s campaign ad features a reenactment of the group of coal miners on their ten-hour bus ride from Kentucky to Washington, D.C. in what Thacker says the miners were led to believe was footage to be used for a documentary on the Black Lung Association.
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At the time, some of the miners were disappointed that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) had only met with them for a short amount of time, reported <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-coal-blacklung/us-coal-miners-discouraged-by-black-lung-meeting-with-mcconnell-idUSKCN1UI18G">Reuters</a> in July. However, neither Robbins nor Hall felt that way.
“Randy and Albrow felt that the trip was a success. They deeply appreciated the warm reception they received from a number of elected representatives who took the time to meet with the group, including Senator Mitch McConnell,” Thacker wrote. “They were therefore happy to cooperate when they were contacted several weeks later to participate in the filming of a reenactment of the bus trip.”
The attorney also stated that Robbins and Hall were “shocked and outraged” when they saw their images prominently featured in the ad’s opening scene.
“They do not believe that black lung is or should be mad into a partisan political issue,” Thacker continued. “Black Lung does not discriminate by party affiliation, and my clients believe that people of good will from both political parties are working hard to address the needs of coal miners with black lung disease.”
The McGrath campaign, however, claims that the miners were aware that the footage would be used in an attack ad. Terry Sebastian, McGrath’s spokesperson, said they were not only informed but were given the opportunity to sign up for campaign apparel at the time, reported <a href="https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article234737737.html">The Lexington Herald Leader</a>. He also stated that the McGrath campaign has not yet official received the cease and desist letter, but that it is now reviewing the request.
McConnell’s campaign, Team Mitch, responded to the controversy over Twitter.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Amy McGrath exploits coal miners. Who could have seen this coming? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/KYSen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#KYSen</a> <a href="https://t.co/jjzZTcLuWi">https://t.co/jjzZTcLuWi</a> <a href="https://t.co/f7juJlmBzc">pic.twitter.com/f7juJlmBzc</a>
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“Amy McGrath exploits coal miners,” Team Mitch tweeted with a link to the report. “Who could have seen this coming?”

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Coal Miners Demand That Mitch McConnell’s Democratic Challenger Stop Using Their Image In Attack Ad

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Some coal companies doing business in Kentucky have not complied with a decades-old state law to protect miners’ wages in case of bankruptcy, and there is no regulatory mechanism in place to enforce the policy, according to a <a href="https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article234398952.html">recently published report</a>.
The Lexington Herald-Leader obtained records that show “not a single coal company formed in Kentucky within the past five years has posted a bond required by state law” that would ensure workers get paid if operations suddenly shut down. The investigation comes after Blackjewel LLC issued bad checks to hundreds of miners in the state before abruptly filing for bankruptcy on July 1, resulting in lost jobs, overdrawn bank accounts, and an adverse economic impact on an area already ravaged by a declining coal industry.
The report says officials in Republican Governor Matt Bevin’s administration “urged lawmakers last year to pass a bill that would have eliminated the requirement.” However, Bevin has expressed support for <a href="https://www.whas11.com/article/news/politics/bevin-happy-to-sign-proposed-bill-to-close-blackjewel-loophole/417-e768814d-5951-406e-91da-afc9c25c6191">upcoming legislation</a> intended to close a recently-publicized enforcement loophole after out-of-work miners began <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50230/standoff-kentucky-miners-block-train-loaded-1-jeffrey-cawood">occupying a set of railroad tracks</a> in Harlan County more than five weeks ago. The former Blackjewel employees are blocking nearly 100 train cars loaded with coal that they mined from leaving, vowing to remain until they are paid what they earned.
<a href="https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article234398952.html">More from the Herald-Leader</a>:
KRS 337.200 requires “every employer engaged in construction work, or the severance, preparation, or transportation of minerals” that has continuously operated in Kentucky for less than five years to post a performance bond with the Labor Cabinet to cover its payroll for four weeks. …
Many Kentucky coal companies are exempt from the law because they’ve continuously operated in Kentucky longer than five years, but the Herald-Leader identified a handful that appear to meet the requirements for posting a bond. …
When the newspaper asked the Labor Cabinet for a list of companies in violation, it responded that it does not keep that list “because the cabinet is not required to maintain such a list.”
Kentucky Labor Cabinet Secretary David A. Dickerson has previously <a href="https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article233335167.html">described</a> the requirement as self-policing and said not all companies comply.
Democratic Attorney General Andy Beshear, who is attempting to unseat Gov. Bevin in November, lashed out at “the governor’s Labor Cabinet” last week, <a href="https://kentucky.gov/Pages/Activity-stream.aspx?n=AttorneyGeneral&amp;prId=826">claiming</a> the agency “may have failed to secure a single bond for any mining company operating in the state.”
Beshear’s office completed a review that found “as many as 30 mining companies should have bonds on file, without which nearly 1,000 mining employees are at risk.”
He demanded that the Labor Cabinet “begin enforcing these bonds to assure no one ever goes through what the Blackjewel miners are going through.”
Cabinet spokesperson Mary Robertson <a href="https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article234398952.html">told</a> the Herald-Leader it is curious that Beshear “is just now weighing in with his after-the-fact advice,” adding, “he casts stones for political purposes.”
“Since this law went into effect 33 years ago, it has only allowed the cabinet to issue citations and seek civil penalties against employers who fail to pay the bond, which the cabinet aggressively pursued against Blackjewel,” she said.
Robertson added, the cabinet “is eager to work with the General Assembly to make changes to KRS 337.200 that allow the cabinet to track and enforce performance bond requirements.”
Meanwhile, Democratic Kentucky Senate candidate Amy McGrath recently released a <a href="https://twitter.com/AmyMcGrathKY/status/1164897509690527744">campaign ad</a> accusing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) of neglecting coal miners. McConnell, who is up for reelection next year, <a href="https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/8885ac5a-4541-4d15-a4af-b1758bf0b3bb/335D626EA1A176EE8629565591EC5E32.mcconnell-letter-to-dol-sec.pdf">insists</a> his office has been collaborating with the Trump administration to help them.
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) filed an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50477/trump-administration-wants-train-loaded-1-million-jeffrey-cawood">emergency motion</a> last month asking a federal bankruptcy judge to halt the movement of Blackjewel coal from Harlan County until the former employees who produced it receive their owed wages. The proposed order by Acting U.S. Secretary of Labor Patrick Pizzella says “the coal is considered ‘<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50477/trump-administration-wants-train-loaded-1-million-jeffrey-cawood">hot goods</a>’ and should be prevented from being transported in interstate commerce.” The topic is expected to be addressed at an evidentiary <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206209087702725&amp;set=a.2207908653822&amp;type=3&amp;theater">hearing</a> on Wednesday in Charleston, West Virginia. <a href="https://www.wymt.com/content/news/Date-for-next-Blackjewel--558742851.html">According</a> to WYMT Mountain News, miners at the Harlan County blockade “say they will not leave until they get paid, no matter what the judge rules.”
The shipment was once estimated to be worth $1 million, but lawyers for Blackjewel <a href="https://www.wtvq.com/2019/08/23/hearing-ordered-miners-protest-blocking-coal-trains/">say</a> the coal is losing value as it degrades from oxidation and becomes more combustible.
Last month, the DOL successfully won a temporary restraining order issued by a federal district court judge <a href="https://www.heraldcourier.com/news/local/judge-issues-temporary-restraining-order-to-prevent-movement-of-blackjewel/article_8048ada7-f5e4-53fd-83dc-8b231816b194.html">preventing</a> Blackjewel from moving coal from three mines in southwest Virginia.
Blackjewel also had coal operations in West Virginia and Wyoming, <a href="https://trib.com/business/blackjewel-says-sale-of-wyoming-mines-is-dead-according-to/article_a3d9eaca-01e7-5a07-b21f-d78e0c039872.html#anchor_item_1">closing</a> a total of 32 mines across the nation after it filed for bankruptcy nearly two months ago. Approximately 1,700 people lost their jobs.
RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50230/standoff-kentucky-miners-block-train-loaded-1-jeffrey-cawood">STANDOFF: Kentucky Miners Block Train Loaded With $1 Million Of Coal After Paychecks Bounce</a>
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