The Brak Power Map

A Breckinridge County Power Map

All of Breckinridge County (Kentucky), the entire system, could be ran by just one single man, like a John Henry Whallen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Whallen , a Boss Tweed, or a Boss Hogg. Humankind is peculiar in how they personify States as individual people, and cling onto monarchy, like how flies cling to shit. All of Breckinridge County could be ran by one man—a King of Breckinridge County—but that's an intellectual cop-out. Most likely, there's many differing aligning interests, and there's some sort of checks and balances at work in any peopled regions, regardless of it's government.

For Breckinridge County, I see 9 Branches of Government:

1- The Police Branch

2- The Media Branch

3- The Owner Branch

4- The Judicial Branch

5- The Election Branch

6- The Wealthy Branch

7- The Executive Branch

8- The Legislative Branch

9- The We the People Branch

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In any analysis of power, it's best to start with the Constitutional obligated “Political Establishment”. With any political establishment in Kentucky counties, there's a fight for domination between the 3 typical branches of government, but also the Education Branch, and the Election Branch, as are the other 6 Branches I've included in my list above that's not Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. The Education and Election Branch have an added emphasis because they're Constitutionally obligated to exist. The other branches are independent actors whose total power is predicated on their charisma.

Many times, a county's Educational Establishment seems to have their own self-constructed little worlds, of perfect order, factory bells, 20 minute lunches, straight lines, quiet kids, and peaceful transition to classes. The County's Educational Establishment can raised taxes on the County whenever they feel like it, and they have their own King: the Superintendent. The Board of Education is about as insignificant as State Representatives in Frankfort are. The problem with legislators, especially if they do not properly understand how the game of power works, is that they may in turn just be a rubber stamp, a dunce, a person who just blindly goes along with the “King”, the Superintendent, or the House Democratic Leadership, or the Judge-Executive, or Sheriff, or County Attorney, or Mayor, or Governor, or President... etc. These legislators are Uncle Toms and won't be of much use. They are chosen at the behest of the Supreme Ruler for their blind loyalty, not for their creative ideas, or understandings of power.

A good legislator would come in with his/her own agenda, and hold the purse strings of the budget back, and any and all other votes, until they got what they wanted. Sometimes, this may be unnecessary, but other times, one may need to make sure the Sludge Ash Pond has a double-liner of clay underneath of it.

At least for Magistrates that's how it goes. The Board of Education is more insignificant than legislators because once they choose the Superintendent, the Superintendent must come back and talk to them, and maintain some type of relationship with the Board of Education, most especially, because the Board of Education can fire the Superintendent, but once that Superintendent is chosen, then that Superintendent is the Man (or woman) of the entire School district.

The Board of Education is democratically chosen ,and therefore has democratic legitimacy, unlike Sheriff's Deputies. Constables are elected, and so are Sheriffs, but Superintendents and Sheriff's Deputies are not. They are appointed. This makes them unaccountable to the general public, except through some other public official. There's reasons to set a system up like this. By appointing a Supreme Court Judge to a lifetime role, we hope, they make the best decision for the Judicial Branch at the time without being held to sway with public opinion. Since they have a job for lifetime, they get the opportunity to call it like they see it, without fear of being taken out of office, by being ousted by Kentucky voters.

1990 KERA changed how Kentucky's Educational Political Establishment was run. The SBDMs (Site-based Decision-Making Councils) are an area where some parent in the community can have a greater sayso. SBDM's have a democratizing power, giving more choices to parents, which is a good thing. http://education.ky.gov/DISTRICTS/SBDM/Pages/default.aspx http://education.ky.gov/districts/sbdm/pages/school-based-decision-making---other-technical-documents.aspx http://www.region10.org/administrators/site-based-decision-making-training/

There's also rogue elements to all of this. A Teacher from Bullitt County drug a student across the floor, was fired for doing it, but somehow, found some “3-panel review board” loophole, and was eventually reinstated.

A 1976 Judicial Amendment completely changed how Kentucky's Judicial System was being run. Both KERA and the 1976 Judicial Amendment were hailed across the nation as Kentucky leading the nation in updating their systems. Overall, I'm in favor of KERA, though this Judicial System, I'm wary of... and of course, wherever there's a boatload of money, there's room for corruption.

Corruption = Helping Mainly Your Buddies, and Not Everybody Equally and Fairly

Breckinridge County's Superintendent is:

The Principals of the Schools:

There's also these schools:

Cloverport, while being in Breckinridge County, is on the outskirts, and is considered it's own nation-town. Breckinridge County competes against Cloverport in High School sports. Cloverport has it's own Board of Education, and it's own Superintendent.

Cloverport's Superintendent is ran by:

Proffit:

Cloverport also has it's own Mayor and City Council and Police.

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I've arranged this county positions in the way I perceive the “county hierarchy” of a county's political establishment stacks up.

The County Positions:

Circuit Court Judges

Circuit Court Clerk (6 year terms) (Section 97 position)

District Court Judge

State's Attorney (Commonwealth's Attorney; 6 year terms); (Section 97 position); Section 108 says Frankfort can abolish office of State Attorney if need be.

County Attorney(Section 99 position)

Coroner (Section 99 position)

Jailer (Section 99 position)

Surveyor (Section 99 position)

Assessor;(Section 99 position) Section 104 of Kentucky's Constitution gives Frankfort power to abolish County Assessors;

Magistrate (Justice of the Peace/County Commissioner)(Section 99 position)

Constable (Section 99 position)

Sheriff (Section 99 position)

Judge-Executive (Section 99 position)

County Court Clerk (Section 99 position)

Soil and Water District Supervisors

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Breckinridge County City Governments (excluding Cloverport)

Cities:

Mayor

City Council

Competitive Races:

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Breckinridge County is in 2nd Appeals Court District (8 year term, over $1 million seat):

2nd Judge in 2nd Appeals District.

Mark H. Flener of Bowling Green.

vs.

Kelly Thompson of Bowling Green.

Breckinridge County Judge-Executive candidates:

Tom Moorman of Harned. Democrat

vs.

Maurice D. Lucas of Hardinsburg. Republican.

10th District Kentucky Representative race.

Claypool

vs.

Schamore.

2nd US Congressional District includes Breckinridge County.

Ron Leach of Brandenburg. Democrat

vs.

S. Brett Guthrie of Bowling Green. Republican.

Breckinridge County's Jailer's Race:

Tara Pile, GOP,

vs.

Shane Beavin, Democrat.

Mayor of Cloverport candidates:

Rick Corley

vs.

Frenchie Rogier

Mayor of Irvington candidates:

Harold Parente

vs.

Yvonne L. Kennedy

vs.

Inez Board (write-in candidate, and politically astute)

Breckinridge County Constables:

1st District is Raleigh H. Shelton IV of Hardinsburg. Democrat

3rd District is Frank Adkins of Garfield. Democrat.

6th District is Richie Smiley of Harned. Republican.

4th District candidates:

Wayne Beauchamp of Irvington. Republican.

vs.

Robbie J. Bloomfield. Democrat.

5th District candidates:

Steve Robinson. Democrat.

vs.

Anthony Whitfill of Harned. Republican.

There's no 2nd District candidate for Constable, and therefore, the 2nd District will have a vacant seat.

Breckinridge County School Board elections:

Cloverport District School Board elections.

Charles F. Wethington vs. Barbara A. Rogers vs. Susan Hendricks

4th District Jeremy Glen Mattingly vs. Anna Kathleen Petit

2nd District Vanessa Lucas

1st (Cloverport?), 3rd, 5th, and 6th districts are absent, though I'm not sure if that's how the school board is organized (with the same 6 Magistrate/6 Constable districts of the county).

Irvington City Council candidates:

6of8

Susie Cundiff Pollard

Marvin Rowe

Patricia Livingston Logsdon

Doug Ditto

Michael Kinnison

Jamie Denner

Anna Davis Basham

Rebecca “Becky” Brown

Bruce Basham

Adam M. Tapp

Sophia L. “Brown” Ditto

Hardinsburg City Council candidates: (all unopposed in General Election)

6of6

Nettie Dean Parker

Ints Kampars

Darla F. Wethington

Wilma L. Thomas

Jim Miller

Gregory Earl Hicks

Cloverport City Council candidates:

6of8

Loretta Embry

Danny Smiley

Candy V. Weatherholt

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Division 2 of Breckinridge Circuit Court with Judge Robert A. Miller met Wednesday.

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Executive Branch, under Energy and Environment Cabinet, votes in 7 Soil & Water District Supervisors for each county (yet somehow, there's 121 districts, for some unknown reason):

Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor candidates (at large vote, 7; 6? total wins; 18 year olds can only run for this office):

Each county in Kentucky is represented by a local conservation district, consisting of seven elected supervisors.  These conservation districts assist the landowners in each county with creating and implementing practices to protect the soil and water quality.  The conservation districts help conserve Kentucky's resources by helping local people match their needs with technical and financial resources.  The following list contains contact information for all 121 conservation districts.

Patrick Henderson of Irvington.

Charles Kenneth French.

AJ Critchelow

staggered years; meaning 3 were up for election in 2014, and then 4 will be up for election in 2016, and so on, every 4 years;

Breckinridge County Conservation District 1101 S Highway 261, Suite 102 Hardinsburg 40143 Telephone number: 270-756-1696 Fax number: none Web site (if any): none Supervisor Information

Supervisor Name Term Expiration Date

Donald Carman 2016

Patrick Henderson 2018

Steven Hinton 2016

Kenneth French 2016

Kenny Hinton 2016

Charles French 2018

A.J. Critchelow 2018

Office Staff: Staff Name Email address Cleo Lee Cleo.lee@ky.nacdnet.net Margaret Ross Margaret.ross@ky.nacdnet.net Bridget Pile bridget.pile@ky.nacdnet.net

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Breckinridge County Magistrate candidates:

1st District

James Henning of Hardinsburg. Democrat.

vs.

Brandon Ball of Hardinsburg. Republican.

2nd District

Leslie Gelling Burnett. Democrat.

vs.

Bill Allen Taul of Hardinsburg. Republican.

3rd District

Gary L. Greenwell. Republican.

vs.

Keith W. Robbins. Democrat.

4th District

Willis E. Bosley of Irvington. Democrat.

vs.

Ronnie Robinson of Irvington. Republican.

5th District

Kenneth Hager of Constantine. Democrat.

vs.

Edwin “Sam” Moore. Republican.

6th District

Tim Milburn of Leitchfield. Republican.

vs.

Joe O'Donoghue. Democrat.

Claypool v. Schamore: 10. (NR) The 10th House District, open;
Alan Claypool, Republican, vs. Dean Schamore, Democrat

Kentucky Senator for Breckinridge County Carroll Gibson is not up for reelection this year.

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Local County Officials in Breckinridge County Who Ran Unopposed (in Primary and/or General Election)

Breckinridge County Sheriff Todd Pate of McDaniels. (unopposed in Primary and General Election, 2014)

PVA Dana Hinton Bland of Hardinsburg. Democrat (unopposed in Primary and General Election, 2014)

208 South Main Street

Hardinsburg, Kentucky

Phone:

270.756.5154

Fax:

270.580.4244

danah.bland@ky.gov

Breckinridge County Clerk. Jill Irwin of Harned. Republican. (unopposed in General Election).

Breckinridge County Attorney Bradley S. Butler of Harned. Republican. (unopposed in General Election).

Circuit Court Clerk. Nobody?

Breckinridge County Coroner Tim Bandy of Hardinsburg. Democrat. (unopposed).

Mayor of Hardinsburg Wayne Macy of Hwy 261N. (unopposed).

Breckinridge County is in 2nd Supreme Court District:

Supreme Court Justice John D. Minton Jr. of Bowling Green is running unopposed.

Breckinridge County Surveyor is Adam Critchelon. (unopposed)

Breckinridge County is in 2nd Appeals Court District:

1st Judge in 2nd Appeals District.

1- Jeff S. Taylor of Owensboro. Unopposed.

8 year term. $1`million seat.

No Family Court Judge in Breckinridge County. Only Domestic Relations Commissioner.

1st District Constable is Raleigh H. Shelton IV of Hardinsburg. Democrat (unopposed in Primary and General, 2014)

3rd District Constable is Frank Adkins of Garfield. Democrat. (unopposed in Primary and General Election, 2014)

6th District Constable is Richie Smiley of Harned. Republican. (unopposed in General Election, 2014)

There's no 2^nd District Constable for Breckinridge County. All anybody in the 2^nd District had to do was just fucking raise their goddamned hands, and they'd have Sheriff powers... you're telling me there's nobody there willing to be a cop? Or perhaps, the most likely reason, is that Kentuckians aren't properly educated about civics... if you're not a politician, then you're a citizen keeping an eagle watchdog eye on the politicians to make sure they aren't fucking up... but you haven't been a very good citizen, now have you?

Nope. The people in the 2^nd District Constable didn't raise their fucking hands to become a Constable because they didn't fucking know about it. They didn't know that position was available to them, and they didn't have the drive or curiosity to find out. Now, for Breckinridge County's 2^nd District, they must rely solely on their Sheriff, or the State Boys, for their protection.

It would take police 30 minutes to get out to here if I needed them. The murderer or the burglar would already have gotten away.

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Breckinridge County cities:

Cloverport.

Custer.

Constantine.

Garfield.

Hardinsburg.

Hudson.

Harned.

Hites Run.

Irvington.

McDaniels.

McQuady.

Webster.

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I made a distinction between the “Wealthy Branch” and the “Owner Branch” because while being wealthy gives one power and influence, they may not be pressing on the local government officials to do anything special for them. Some wealthy folks may just mind their own business, and let the local public officials do whatever they want to do, just so long as they aren't bothered. The “Owner Branch” would be the Puppet Masters, the Chamber of Commerce, the wealthy folks who can smash the Sheriff and County Attorney into submission with just one phone call.

The Puppet Master Owner Branch is the most powerful Branch of Government in all 120 counties in Kentucky.

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These are county positions. The county is an administrative unit of the State. These county officials have a monopoly on violence, according to the nation-state theory of Otto Von Bismarck.

I mention this, because if the Kentucky State Police, or the Governor's men, wanted to storm the Breckinridge County's Sheriff's palace, or search the County Attorney's offices for wrongdoing, or child porn, they would be within their power to do so.

In America, there's only 2 governments we abide by: Washington DC, and our State's Capitol (Frankfort). The County and Cities of the State are given powers allotted by Frankfort.

Some cities are big enough that they can do their own thing. Greg Fischer, the Mayor of Louisville, if he wanted to, could buy a gas station, and compete against the Marathon Monopoly that's price gouging in Louisville. He doesn't need permission from Frankfort. Constitutionally, he may. But being that Louisville is it's own self-contained nation-city, Greg Fischer is the King of that City. Fischer doesn't even need to get Frankfort's permission to charge a penny tax for some Capitol-construction project he may have hatched up in his free time for the good of Louisville people.

I'll also mention this caveat. Sheriff's in counties can stand up to the Feds, whether they're Secret Service, FBI, CIA, ATF, Homeland Security, etc. The Sheriff is given the authority of the State of Kentucky, and so therefore, as a representative of the State of Kentucky, he's the main Man in the County who goes around putting his hands on everybody, and beating them up. I'm of the opinion that the Executive Branch has that same authority, but most do not know it, which then becomes a situation where the most charismatic police officers have the most power: they do as they please, and their sycophantic prosecutors and Judges cheer them on, while patting him on the back. “He said this guy was a crazy violent asshole, and so he had to shoot him” ... “Good job Johnson! Thanks for keeping us all safe and sound!”

If prosecutors and Judges are following the police officer's lead, this is an example of the “tail wagging the dog”. Police forces, like military forces, must remain subordinate underneath civilian control. The Judge-Executive is the one who controls the police. The police do not work for the Judicial Branch. They work for the Executive Branch. But I bet many do not know this. My bet is...

The Sheriffs of Kentucky counties do as they damn well please, at least all they can get away with, steering clear of the Judge-Executive. This gives me the “Big Man on Campus” look, and 99% of the time, when there is an incident, a good man/woman who is Sheriff, did the best he/she could.

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There's also the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals. Most likely, the Court of Appeals and Supreme Court will reaffirm the Circuit and District Court's rulings, since all of the Judges are buddy-buddy, being paid a ton of money, and are therefore are all playing the same game of ratchet cronyism, passing out spoils to all their buddies, making lots of money on poor folks who can't afford a lawyer, who don't understand the law and don't know no better, or by using their position to be the thief who hears about an opportunity first, like insider trading, or tax lien certificates, and capitalizes on them before

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Section 94 of Kentucky's Constitution bans the Land Office... or that part was repealed. Either way, we don't have a Land Office, and I find that fucked up. I'd be interested in knowing who owns more than 100,000 acres of Kentucky dirt.

Breckinridge County Constables:

1st District is Raleigh H. Shelton IV of Hardinsburg. Democrat

3rd District is Frank Adkins of Garfield. Democrat.

6th District is Richie Smiley of Harned. Republican.

There's no 2nd District candidate for Constable, and therefore, the 2nd District will have a vacant seat.

Brak is 1 county of 120 in Kentucky.

A Kentucky County Judge provides some details about how County Attorneys get paid:

“The majority of their Salary is provided by the State. However, most counties also provide a monetary amount in the county budget for advising Fiscal Courts.”

An unknown fact is the HUGE amount of money that County Attorneys skim off the top in Child Support Collection (hence, about 15 years ago, a county attorney in Kenton County kept about 1 million dollars of funds all derived from child support collections and further punishing young children by doing so who could have benefited from the parents income).

Another unknown fact: County Attorneys are NEVER Audited (locally or otherwise).

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The County Triumvirate

The way Kentucky County Attorneys, Judge-Executives, and Sheriffs are organized, each of Kentucky's 120 counties (minus the cities... so 117 counties?) are governed by a de facto “Triumvirate” that consist of those 3 positions.

Here's how they are organized:

Per Kentucky's Constitution:

The County Attorney sits on at all Fiscal Court meetings. This puts the County Attorney into a position of advising the Judge-Executive and the Magistrates of his interpretation of the laws, plus it may make one feel inclined to defend the Judge-Executive and Magistrates of their goings on because they are legally obligated to sit in on the meetings... so why not defend these guys?

The Judge-Executive, being the Chief Executive of the County, has the important job of enforcing the laws in the county. This gives the Judge-Executive any and all power that's afforded to the Head of County. Nixon says “if the President does it, then it's not illegal”. The County Judge (aka Judge-Executive) is the President of the County, and is also it's face.

A County Attorney in Jackson County believed that the Sheriff was allowed to arrest the County Judge, and because of that County Attorney's opinion, the Sheriff took the County Judge to jail in his private Mustang, since the County Judge had striped the Sheriff's budget down to nothing.

County Attorney prosecutes cases for the police... so the police, including the Sheriff, have to align their values with his. The County Attorney in Gallatin County believes it's his job to “protect the cops”.

Since the County Attorney is paid independently of County taxes collected, since he's paid by Frankfort, the County Attorney is beholden to nobody. For the child support payments, the County Attorney may scheme with the Judicial Judges (Circuit and District) in order to inflate their pay, but shouldn't breach the public's trust like that.

Since the County Attorney, upon being elected, is accountable to nobody, and he's the “chief legal adviser” of the county, that puts him into the de facto position of being the most powerful person in the county... both the Sheriff and the County Judge rely on his/her opinion to make sense of their jobs, but that isn't necessary. The County Judge, Sheriff, and County Attorney are all beholden to the people who elected them, every 4 years. Kentucky's county elections just happened last year, 2014, and all of them won't be up for re-election until 2018, 4 years from now.

The County Judge-Executive, Sheriff, and County Attorney are autonomous in their own domains, and can operate independently. While things are easier when they get along, it may not always be so. The Judge-Executive and Sheriff can get their own private legal opinions, as well as going above the County Attorney's head, and getting an opinion by the State's Attorney General, which is now Jack Conway, but will hopefully be the lone Democrat in the race, Andy Beshear, in 2016.

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46^th District Judges (Breckinridge County):

Kenneth Harold Goff II, Division 1

Shan F. Embry, Division 2

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46^th Circuit Judges:

Bruce T. Butler, Division 1

Robert A. Miller, Division 2

Some judicial districts have a “Family Court”, but not Breckinridge. Is this because Breckinridge Judges doesn't care about families, or because “Family Court” is an unaccountable monster created by a Judicial system run amok? I believe it's the latter, though I'd consider the former.

The US District Court for the Western District of Kentucky has jurisdiction in Breckinridge County. Appeals from the Western District go to the US Court of Appeals for the 6^th Circuit, based in downtown Cincinnati at the Potter A. Stewart Federal Courthouse and Building.

There's US District Courts in Bowling Green, Louisville, Owensboro, and Paducah to represent the Western District court, which is 1 of 94 US District courts in the United States. http://www.kywd.uscourts.gov/

Many times, it's the Feds who help keep Kentucky government officials straight and honest.

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3 Cities:

Irvington

Cloverport

Hardinsburg

All 3 cities have Mayors and Councilfolks. The police of these cities serve at the behest of the Mayor. The Mayor can fire the Chief of Police of their own cities. I'd think the Councilfolks would all have to weigh in too, but that's how I'd run my city. I doubt if any of these cities are governed by their own charters.

Mayor of Irvington:

Mayor of Cloverport:

Mayor of Hardinsburg:

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County Officers:

Magistrates

County Clerk

Jailer

Coroner

County Judge

County Attorney

Sheriff

PVA

Surveyor

Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisors

Commonwealth's Attorney:

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Education Officials

School Board

Superintendent

Principals

Teachers

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There's a whole slate of public officials that serves Breckinridge County, but there were a bunch of folks who gained power, just as they had for decades, without opposition, as well as some positions not being filled for lack of citizens with enough gumption, and basic civic know-how and understanding, to raise their hands to become candidates. I blame the education system and the media for that.

For example... Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor...

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to do:

Power Map

Who is the most powerful person in Breckinridge County?

County Attorney, Sheriff, Judge-Executive: The Kentucky County Triumvirate

Politically speaking, and in practice, the most powerful person in a Kentucky county is the County Attorney.

There's checks and balances between the positions:

Since Conway admitted that all of those anti-gay court cases felt like discrimination to him, that overturns all of those decisions.

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In Los Angeles County, California, 150 of the 151 Judges who ran for office, won. 150. That's more impressive than Saddam Hussein... China's Poliburo... Stalin's overwhelming support... Castro... in America, we elect our totalitarianism representatives.

A major problem with Judges running for office is when they want some money for their campaigns, and ask the lawyers to donate to their campaigns. Lawyers don't really have a choice... grease the palms of the Judges the lawyers need to convince of their arguments, the Judges get in, remember the lawyers, and a profitable relationship is developed. For both parties... but in a way, the lawyer's hands on tied when the Judges ask for donations.

And since we allow political donations, are we to assume that Judges who take money from other folks, won't favor them, if they're ever in court? It's legalized bribery... and bribery is a reason to impeach the President for treason.

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Commonwealth's attorney offices

county attorney offices,

master commissioners

property valuation administration offices

November Breckinridge County Elections:

Positions Up 4 Grabs Were:

Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor

Magistrate

City Council

PVA

Surveyor

Sheriff

etc etc etc

US Senate:

Grimes

vs.

McConnell

Breckinridge County is in 2nd Appeals Court District (8 year term, over $1 million seat):

2nd Judge in 2nd Appeals District.

Mark H. Flener of Bowling Green.

vs.

Kelly Thompson of Bowling Green.

Breckinridge County Judge-Executive candidates:

Tom Moorman of Harned. Democrat

vs.

Maurice D. Lucas of Hardinsburg. Republican.

10th District Kentucky Representative race.

Claypool

vs.

Schamore.

2nd US Congressional District includes Breckinridge County.

Ron Leach of Brandenburg. Democrat

vs.

S. Brett Guthrie of Bowling Green. Republican.

Breckinridge County's Jailer's Race:

Tara Pile, GOP,

vs.

Shane Beavin, Democrat.

Mayor of Cloverport candidates:

Rick Corley

vs.

Frenchie Rogier

Mayor of Irvington candidates:

Harold Parente

vs.

Yvonne L. Kennedy

vs.

Inez Board (write-in candidate, and politically astute)

Breckinridge County Constables:

1st District is Raleigh H. Shelton IV of Hardinsburg. Democrat

3rd District is Frank Adkins of Garfield. Democrat.

6th District is Richie Smiley of Harned. Republican.

4th District candidates:

Wayne Beauchamp of Irvington. Republican.

vs.

Robbie J. Bloomfield. Democrat.

5th District candidates:

Steve Robinson. Democrat.

vs.

Anthony Whitfill of Harned. Republican.

There's no 2nd District candidate for Constable, and therefore, the 2nd District will have a vacant seat.

Breckinridge County School Board elections:

Cloverport District. Charles F. Wethington vs. Barbara A. Rogers vs. Susan Hendricks

4th District Jeremy Glen Mattingly vs. Anna Kathleen Petit

2nd District Vanessa Lucas

1st (Cloverport?), 3rd, 5th, and 6th districts are absent, though I'm not sure if that's how the school board is organized (with the same 6 Magistrate/6 Constable districts of the county).

Irvington City Council candidates:

Susie Cundiff Pollard

Marvin Rowe

Patricia Livingston Logsdon

Doug Ditto

Michael Kinnison

Jamie Denner

Anna Davis Basham

Rebecca “Becky” Brown

Bruce Basham

Adam M. Tapp

Sophia L. “Brown” Ditto

Hardinsburg City Council candidates:

Nettie Dean Parker

Ints Kampars

Darla F. Wethington

Wilma L. Thomas

Jim Miller

Gregory Earl Hicks

Cloverport City Council candidates:

Loretta Embry

Danny Smiley

Candy V. Weatherholt

Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor candidates (at large vote; 6? total wins; 18 year olds can only run for this office):

Patrick Henderson of Irvington.

Charles Kenneth French.

AJ Critchelow

Breckinridge County Magistrate candidates:

1st District

James Henning of Hardinsburg. Democrat.

vs.

Brandon Ball of Hardinsburg. Republican.

2nd District

Leslie Gelling Burnett. Democrat.

vs.

Bill Allen Taul of Hardinsburg. Republican.

3rd District

Gary L. Greenwell. Republican.

vs.

Keith W. Robbins. Democrat.

4th District

Willis E. Bosley of Irvington. Democrat.

vs.

Ronnie Robinson of Irvington. Republican.

5th District

Kenneth Hager of Constantine. Democrat.

vs.

Edwin “Sam” Moore. Republican.

6th District

Tim Milburn of Leitchfield. Republican.

vs.

Joe O'Donoghue. Democrat.

Claypool v. Schamore: 10. (NR) The 10th House District, open;
Alan Claypool, Republican, vs. Dean Schamore, Democrat

Democrats have high hopes that they can win this district, which had been held by Republican Rep. Dwight Butler of Harned, who is retiring. The district has shrunk to cover Hancock and Breckinridge counties and part of Hardin County. Hancock has been reliably Democratic. In fact, it was one of the few counties in Kentucky Barack Obama won. Democratic candidate Dean Schamore is a small businessman and a military veteran who is likely to paint Republican Alan Claypool as too extreme for the district. Claypool, who wasn’t Butler’s pick for the GOP nomination this spring, describes himself as “liberty-minded” and has cultivated more tea party support. An Owensboro native, he runs a business consulting company. He ended the primary with $4,000 in the bank. Schamore ended with $26,000.

Running for the 10th District seat this fall are Republican Alan Claypool (Matt Bevin, Glenn Beck endorsed as the Messiah of Republicanism) and Democrat Dean Schamore. Both are from Breckinridge County. Claypool runs a management consulting firm, and Schamore operates an information technology company and was president last year of the Breckinridge Chamber of Commerce. Both describe themselves as conservative. On his campaign website, Schamore states that his mother, Angela Schamore, is a former mayor of Hardinsburg and that he is a sixth cousin of Daniel Boone. "If you want more, vote Schamore," he says. Claypool says on his website that his primary purpose is "to glorify God by enjoying Him forever." He grew up in Owensboro and moved to Atlanta after college to work as a software developer. He came to Breckinridge County in 1998 to be closer to family in Owensboro. In 2013, Claypool was a statewide volunteer coordinator for Louisville businessman Matt Bevin's unsuccessful campaign for the U.S. Senate against Republican incumbent Mitch McConnell.

Kentucky Senator for Breckinridge County Carroll Gibson is not up for reelection this year.

1Breckinridge County Sheriff Todd Pate of McDaniels. (unopposed)

2PVA Dana Hinton Bland of Hardinsburg. Democrat.

3Breckinridge County Clerk. Jill Irwin of Harned. Republican. (unopposed).

4Breckinridge County Attorney Bradley S. Butler of Harned. Republican. (unopposed).

5Circuit Court Clerk. Nobody?

6Breckinridge County Coroner Tim Bandy of Hardinsburg. Democrat. (unopposed).

7Mayor of Hardinsburg Wayne Macy of Hwy 261N. (unopposed).

8Breckinridge County is in 2nd Supreme Court District: Supreme Court Justice John D. Minton Jr. of 9Bowling Green is running unopposed.

10Breckinridge County is in 2nd Supreme Court District: Supreme Court Justice John D. Minton Jr. of 11Bowling Green is running unopposed.

12Breckinridge County Surveyor is Adam Critchelon. (unopposed)

13Breckinridge County is in 2nd Appeals Court District:

1st Judge in 2nd Appeals District. 1- Jeff S. Taylor of Owensboro. Unopposed. 8 year term. $1`million seat.

No Family Court Judge in Breckinridge County. Only Domestic Relations Commissioner.

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BRAK ANALYSIS

When thinking about who is the most powerful person in a county, there's many folks to consider. One can be influential by virtue of their charisma. Others, on the other hand, have grunts at their disposal, ready to unleash some of administrative portion of the State's monopoly of violence upon their own citizens.

Here's all I considered:

The 3 Branches of Government are:

Judicial

Legislative

Executive

While most folks would place the police in the judicial branch, they are actually under the Executive Branch.

The police would need to know

But a County Attorney from Gallatin County said that he's actually the one who defends the police. This is sickening because this means in Gallatin County during his reign, the police are allowed to behave however they feel is proper, and when the time comes for them to get violent and crazy, then they have the County Attorney ready to cover up their ass for any and every crime they commit.

KSP

FBI

CIA

Governor

Lieutenant Governor

US Senate

State Representative

Mayors

City Police

Constables

Jailers and Coroners, power to arrest.

Brak

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