Matt Jones Picture on CJ Cover??

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MJ made front page of online cj with story about governor's budget cuts. i don't know why his pic would be connected with that. i couldn't open to read.
I just thought that it's funny if some editor actually thought that picture was the governor.
http://www.courier-journal.com
 

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I support it. You can't tell me there isn't fat to be cut in college institutions. College today is goofy, i'm finishing my BBA and half of the **** I have to do for classes ie. hoops to jump through, special books, computer programs, is unnecessary in my opinion. Not only that but my admins within the school system are HIGHLY compensated well outside of market rates. It's all due to federal and state funding. I think funding should be scaled back, colleges should be more competitive and require more from students. I would say 75% of the folks in my classes honestly shouldn't have been accepted. There's nothing wrong with ditch digging folks, not everyone is meant for college. We are putting out semi educated folks that simply aren't ready and aren't able to comprehend or perform well in advanced fields of work. Not only that but many of these folks that can't compete with these expensive degrees will most likely end up in state level work collecting good checks with benefits until they die. This may not be the case for Kentucky but it's a fact of life in South Carolina. ALL of this stems from easy federal money and fat pay checks going to colleges for campus beautification, bonuses for staff and other boondoggles. It's the damned honest truth.
 

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Matt predicted right here on this site the day before the election that Bevin would lose and it would not be close. He is to the Dem party what Bozich is to UL.

We have the worst pension system in the country and trending worse every day. It was passed and underfunded by one party rule for decades pretty much. Jones and other Dems should stfu.
 

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Thread involving Matt Jones + politics =

 

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Matt is getting more involved with democrat politics (not just on his show). Expect more of this from Jones. Also expect the CJ to cover it because they heavily lean against Bevin. Somebody's sacred cow is going to get hurt if the budget is to be balanced and the pension system fixed.

http://www.wdrb.com/story/31237948/...former-ky-auditor-to-form-new-political-group
This is true. I might have to check out til next season. If I want to listen to politics I'll turn on a political show.
 
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Good. I'm glad there's a young progressive voice for KY. Also love that he - Matt - can get so many of his avid followers to suddenly talk negatively about him the moment he says a word about politics.

I honestly think - if Bevin can win the election and be Governor of KY, so could Matt Jones.
 

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Sorry for the thread. I didn't think that it might turn political.
 

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Matt predicted right here on this site the day before the election that Bevin would lose and it would not be close. He is to the Dem party what Bozich is to UL.

We have the worst pension system in the country and trending worse every day. It was passed and underfunded by one party rule for decades pretty much. Jones and other Dems should stfu.
Had Dems actually showed up to vote, MJ would be correct.
 

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Good. I'm glad there's a young progressive voice for KY. Also love that he - Matt - can get so many of his avid followers to suddenly talk negatively about him the moment he says a word about politics.

I honestly think - if Bevin can win the election and be Governor of KY, so could Matt Jones.
They talk about about him when he gets into politics because what he says is dumb. We shouldn't give credibility to his insane political views just because he runs a UK based sports talk show. I can agree with him on UK sports but politically I'd rather vote for a political novice like Ryan Lemond than someone that is basically wrong about everything.

And we don't need progressive voices for Kentucky. It's the progressives that dug the hole that Bevin is trying to dig out of.
 

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Good. I'm glad there's a young progressive voice for KY. Also love that he - Matt - can get so many of his avid followers to suddenly talk negatively about him the moment he says a word about politics.

I honestly think - if Bevin can win the election and be Governor of KY, so could Matt Jones.

A democrat cannot win a statewide race in Kentucky unless he or she performs very well in Louisville (the largest liberal area of the state). Matt is hated by UL fans and would not do well enough in Louisville to win.
 

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Matt is a San Francisco style bleeding heart liberal
When things are so skewed to the right, as they are in our state and in the South generally, anyone to the left seems like a bleeding heart liberal. In the majority of cases, those on the left that get elected are center to center-left......(as opposed to far left, bleeding heart San Fran Dems).
 

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A democrat cannot win a statewide race in Kentucky unless he or she performs very well in Louisville (the largest liberal area of the state). Matt is hated by UL fans and would not do well enough in Louisville to win.
When it comes to politics, the school you root for doesn't matter. (See Patton, Bashear, etc). Policies that actually affect people's lives are what's important.
 

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Matt is a San Francisco style bleeding heart liberal
If you think that, then you haven't been to San Francisco in 40 years.

This is a modern San Francisco liberal:



Nothing they say makes any GD sense to a grown adult with a job.



Matt, on the other hand, is a much more normal democrat. He spends at least as much time making fun of the loopy hippies on the street he lives on as he does anything conservative. You just fixate on the occasions that he makes fun of something conservative because you're super sensitive about it.

Of course he has a political opinion, but so do most people. It enters the conversation less than 10% of the time. If you can't take Matt's incredibly mild brand of liberalism, God help you if you ever do run into an actual San Francisco liberal.
 
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Jones is a Lib that likes spending your money, so none of that is a surprise. But he sure is not enthralled with today's Democrat.

Wish he would stick to UK sports. That's his calling.
 
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When it comes to politics, the school you root for doesn't matter. (See Patton, Bashear, etc). Policies that actually affect people's lives are what's important.
UL Dems would stay home before they would vote for him. He's their public enemy number 1 just ahead of Katina. As far as things that affect people's lives, the Yum center lease is screwing every taxpayer in Jefferson County (so far) and the UL fans think that's great.
 

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A democrat cannot win a statewide race in Kentucky unless he or she performs very well in Louisville (the largest liberal area of the state). Matt is hated by UL fans and would not do well enough in Louisville to win.

And let's totally ignore the rest of the state - where he would get +% of votes based on his UK following/popularity.
 

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And let's totally ignore the rest of the state - where he would get +% of votes based on his UK following/popularity.

You would not have that many republicans crossing over to vote for just MJ just because he is a UK fan. He is very liberal and that is what counts. However, you would have many democrats in Louisville refusing to vote for Public Enemy #1 (as another poster said). Matt absolutely rips their school which has huge political power here in Louisville.
 
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They talk about about him when he gets into politics because what he says is dumb. We shouldn't give credibility to his insane political views just because he runs a UK based sports talk show. I can agree with him on UK sports but politically I'd rather vote for a political novice like Ryan Lemond than someone that is basically wrong about everything.

And we don't need progressive voices for Kentucky. It's the progressives that dug the hole that Bevin is trying to dig out of.
Bevin is a policy idiot. Jones is a policy idiot. We live in kentucky (well, most of us). Politically, we're ****** and always will be.
 
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A democrat cannot win a statewide race in Kentucky unless he or she performs very well in Louisville (the largest liberal area of the state). Matt is hated by UL fans and would not do well enough in Louisville to win.
Ridiculous take. We've had 3 republican governors since 1950. THREE. 3 out of the last 16.

This state is a democrat stronghold at the state level unless you trot out a clown. Matt may qualify. I don't know.
 

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No matter which side of the fence you are on, no one can deny that spending by publicly-funded higher education institutes is well out of hand (as is spending by many publicly-funded institutes). You can certainly make some shock headlines by saying "Bevin cutting higher education spending", but if you look at how the money is being spent it paints a very different story. There is certainly places for spending to be cut on university campuses. The hard part is figuring out who gets their cash-cows butchered.
 
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Ridiculous take. We've had 3 republican governors since 1950. THREE. 3 out of the last 16.

This state is a democrat stronghold at the state level unless you trot out a clown. Matt may qualify. I don't know.

Beshear won Louisville (Jefferson County) by 40 points in 2011 and won his election. Conway won Jefferson County by 20 points and still lost in 2015. Democrats need to perform much better in Louisville than they do statewide in order to win. That is just a fact. It is also a fact that Kentucky has been trending more republican in the past 15 or so years. So you trotting out races going back to 1950 is silly. The dems and GOP have split the last four governor races 2-2.
 
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Bershear won Louisville (Jefferson County) by 40 points in 2011 and won his election. Conway won Jefferson County by 20 points and still lost. Democrats need to perform much better in Louisville than they do statewide in order to win. That is just a fact. It is also a fact that Kentucky has been trending more republican in the past 15 or so years. So you trotting out races going back to 1950 is silly. The dems and GOP have split the last four governor races 2-2.

Here is why beshear won:



Here is why Bevin won:



You insinuating that louisville is the primary reason just shows your assessment skills are complete ****.

Scaring ignorant people with "all dems are going to enact obama's policies. Hell, they'll prolly be just like obama but only more libruhl" has been pretty successful in this state the past 5 years or so.
 

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Here is why beshear won:



Here is why Bevin won:



You insinuating that louisville is the primary reason just shows your assessment skills are complete ****.

Scaring ignorant people with "all dems are going to enact obama's policies. Hell, they'll prolly be just like obama but only more libruhl" has been pretty successful in this state the past 5 years or so.

I don't even know why I would bother with a fool who says that Kentucky is a democratic stronghold. We have two GOP US senators, 5/6 GOP congressmen, a GOP governor, a GOP state senate and a state house which is within a few seats of flipping. You are a complete idiot who can't recognize that the biggest block of democrat voters in Kentucky happen to reside in Jefferson County. By the way, I never even mentioned Obama (shows your reading skill is severely lacking).

Your map isn't really that helpful since half of Kentucky's population lives in only about a dozen of its 120 counties. Louisville has more population than the smallest 60 counties combined.
 
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I don't even know why I would bother with a fool who says that Kentucky is a democratic stronghold. We have two GOP US senators, 5/6 GOP congressmen, a GOP governor, a GOP state senate and a state house which is within a few seats of flipping. By the way, I never even mentioned Obama. You are a complete idiot who can't recognize that the biggest block of democrat voters in Kentucky happen to reside in Jefferson County.
I'm an idiot? Maybe you should learn to read. Like where I said "at the state level..." moron.

The governorship has been democrat all but 5 years of the last 25. The house has been democrat majority for EVERY SINGLE YEAR of the past 25 years. Yes, the GOP has a majority in the senate and has for 13 of the past 25 years.

Hell... 1 out of 3 ain't bad (but 2 of those have been DOMINATED by democrats the last 25 years). Fool. [roll]

When obama the boogeyman ain't in office anymore to scare people into voting red, the democrats will go back to dominating kentucky's offices. Oops. Unless Billary is elected. Lord knows the citizenry outside of lex and lou are just as big sexists as they are racists.
 

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I'm an idiot? Maybe you should learn to read. Like where I said "at the state level..." moron.

The governorship has been democrat all but 5 years of the last 25. The house has been democrat majority for EVERY SINGLE YEAR of the past 25 years. Yes, the GOP has a majority in the senate and has for 13 of the past 25 years.

Hell... 1 out of 3 ain't bad (but 2 of those have been DOMINATED by democrats the last 25 years). Fool. [roll]

When obama the boogeyman ain't in office anymore to scare people into voting red, the democrats will go back to dominating kentucky's offices. Oops. Unless Billary is elected. Lord knows the citizenry outside of lex and lou are just as big sexists as they are racists.

You can keep talking about how things were 25 years ago but it doesn't change the reality of today. The dems are losing power at all levels across this state. The fact that you can't recognize it just shows what a partizan you are.
 
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You can keep talking about how things were 25 years ago but it doesn't change the reality of today. The dems are losing power at all levels across this state. The fact that you can't recognize it just shows what a partizan you are or how ignorant you really are. Likely both.
Because of obama. Every single GOP candidate for 8 years has been running under the assertion of "you can elect an obama parrot or you can elect me." Are you actually going to deny this?
 

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Because of obama. Every single GOP candidate for 8 years has been running under the assertion of "you can elect an obama parrot or you can elect me." Are you actually going to deny this?

The GOP has been gaining power in Kentucky for more than the time than Obama has been in office. Ernie Fletcher won the governorship without help from Obama. Both U.S. senate seats flipped to the GOP before Obama. The balance of power in the state house has been moving for over a decade. There is no doubt that Obama has hurt the democrat party in this state (particularly from 2012 forward). However, he is not the only reason dems are declining in this state. The democrat party nationally is just far more liberal than most Kentuckians.
 
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