So, Rylund, if you had to describe your governor in one word, what word would you use?

Combative.

Ryland Barton is the State House reporter for Kentucky Public Radio.

That's so good. That's so like reporterly.

And right now, his governor, Matt Bevin, is up for re-election.

If you read about him, a lot of people use the word mean.

Mean, yeah.

I mean, I guess it's kind of a synonym for the same thing. And I think that he would embrace that title, really.

When Ryland says his governor is combative, he's talking about the way Matt Bevin has spent the last four years fighting for his vision of conservative government.

When teachers flooded the Capitol building last year to protest changes to their pensions,

Bevin said they had a thug mentality.

Yeah, but Bevin's suggesting that he needs to knock teachers out in order for their own goods.

And it's funny because I think the Democratic response to it today in his statement was

every time he opens his mouth, he can't help it, it's a disaster.

Yes.

Like literally that's what they said.

And it is.

It is a disaster.

He is a perfect.

He's refused to talk to reporters claiming that they're claiming that they like actually work for his, his opponents.

There was this one time where he called me an embarrassment to the Commonwealth in my

profession.

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