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🗓️ 28 October 2019
⏱️ 18 minutes
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0:30.0 | So, Ryland, if you had to describe your governor in one word, what word would you use? |
0:44.0 | Combative. |
0:46.0 | Ryland Barton is a state house reporter for Kentucky Public Radio. |
0:50.0 | That's so good. That's so like reportedly. |
0:53.0 | And right now, his governor, Matt Bevan, is up for re-election. |
0:58.0 | If you read about him, a lot of people use the word mean. |
1:02.0 | Mean. Yeah. I mean, I guess it's kind of synonym for the same thing. |
1:08.0 | And I think that he would embrace that title, really. |
1:13.0 | When Ryland says his governor is combative, he's talking about the way Matt Bevan has spent the last four years fighting for his vision of conservative government. |
1:23.0 | When teachers flooded the Capitol building last year to protest changes to their pensions, Bevan said they had a thug mentality. |
1:31.0 | Yeah, but Bevan suggesting that he needs to not teachers out in order for their own goods. |
1:36.0 | It is funny, because I think the Democratic response to it today in a statement was every time he opens his mouth, he can't help it, it's a disaster. |
1:44.0 | Yes. |
1:45.0 | Like literally that's what they said. And it is. It is a disaster. |
1:48.0 | He is a perfect. He's refused to talk to reporters claiming that they're claiming that they actually work for his opponents. |
1:55.0 | There is this one time where he called me an embarrassment to the commonwealth in my profession. |
2:00.0 | And you know, it rattles around my brain from time to time, but I think it's more of a red badge of courage than anything. |
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