Wondering what Anne Northup is up to these days? She’s involved in the partisan gridlock threatening the Consumer Product Safety Commission, that’s what. [WaPo]

Okay, kids, should we be holding our breath that Greg Fischer will actually selected a chief for the LMPD that officers respect and the city will appreciate? [WFPL]

Lexington Mayor Jim Gray has postponed plans to alter that city’s police take-home car program. They could learn a lot from Louisville. [H-L]

Today at 10:00 A.M. Congressman John Yarmuth will take part in the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations hearing to discuss current foreign policy with Iran. [Press Release]

Really, this is the same protest that’s been going on since 2002 or 2003. Same people, even. Just a deeper cause. [C-J/AKN]

The University of Louisville received a $1.1 million grant from the Department of Education to help JCPS students via the Talent Search program. We apologize for the Robert Felner-related PTSD moment we just caused. [FOX41]

IMPORTANT: Third Annual Highlands Beer Festival. The only thing more important would be a Highlands Bourbon Festival. Get on this thing. [Consuming Lousiville]

Animal abuse is alleged at an area shelter that is not Louisville Metro Animal Services for a change. [WAVE3]

The Humana Foundation is pledging $600,000 in grants to help two Metro United Way charities reach their funding goals. The rest of our wealthy companies in town need to follow suit. [Business First]

Is your car more than ten-years-old? Then no title is required and no mandatory waiting period exists for it to be stolen and sold to a scrap yard with ease. No questions asked. [WHAS11]

Your local big town newspaper essentially ignores the mega scandals going down with a hospital in Owensboro. You should probably pay attention because it mirrors much of what is occurring with the University of Louisville’s planned merger. [Page One]

If you aren’t following me on Twitter, you aren’t getting the full story. I do things like leak candidate ads (last night was Todd P’Pool’s and then the mainstream jumped on it) and share tidbits I don’t have time to write about. [Get On It]

LG&E wants to convert its coal-fired plant on Cane Run to natural gas. Is this a good thing, folks? [FOX41]

What sense does it make to move mail processing from Lexington all the way to Louisville and Knoxville? [H-L]

And what sense does it make to close one of Louisville’s facilities if the city is expecting even more mail volume from the rest of the state? [Business First]

Maybe rider numbers for a river shuttle service wouldn’t be low if there was adequate public transportation in the metro area. Most people don’t want to walk 45 miles to and from the boat. [WAVE3]

This is apparently a thing that is happening tomorrow on the waterfront. [Consuming Louisville]

Oh, look, it’s Anne Northup putting down the sauce long enough to complain about John Yarmuth again. If she really gave two flips about the bridges situation, wouldn’t her ass still be working on it? This city voted her out for a reason – it wanted her gone. She needs to get the hint. (It’s true, though, that John is placating his rich friends more than he should.) [WHAS11]

Remember the monster water main break? It cost $1.1 million to repair. [WLKY]

Have you seen the stinky hypocrisy rolling out of the Democrats in Kentucky lately? We’re still waiting on their jobs plan and goals for Kentucky’s economy. It’s too bad they’ll never offer them, ever. [Page One]

Landmark status was denied for the South End’s Kenwood Drive-In. [WFPL]

Churchill Downs says it won’t be renewing its contract with the Jockeys’ Guild. [Paulick Report]

Check out this mail piece tying him to Republican Anne Northup:

FRONT – CLICK TO ENLARGE

BACK – CLICK TO ENLARGE

Ouch?

In Jim King’s latest ad, he focuses on Greg Fischer’s contributions to Republicans like Anne Northup, Fischer’s desire to toll existing bridges, and his, you know, inability to tell anybody the size of Louisville’s budget:

Ouch!

The ad is set to hit Louisville airwaves late tomorrow.

See for yourself:

Greg Fischer has a history of contributing to the most rabid, right-wing Republicans in the country, as does the rest of his family. On October 8, 1998 Greg Fischer gave $250 to Anne Northup. On October 10, 2000 he gave Northup an additional $350– meaning he approved of her activity in congress enough to give her more money. Check for yourself at FEC.gov. And on July 1, 1998 Fischer gave Republican Rebecca Jackson $250. She’s not quite a rabid right-winger, but Republican nonetheless.

So what’s with the hypocrisy? Fischer and his family can give thousands to Republicans and others cannot? Does Greg Fischer regret his Republican contributions? Does he attack his sister Lynn for her 1996 contribution to Mitch McConnell? Joe’s (NOTE IN 2010: apparently not an immediate family member) four contributions to Jim Bunning and $1,000 contribution to the Republican Party of Kentucky? Or George’s contributions to Bob Dole, George W. Bush, and Anne Northup?  How does he explain George’s $1,000 contribution to Bruce in last year’s gubernatorial primary?  We’re just wondering.

His tight ties with the far right isn’t going to help him much in the Democratic primary. Not with so many other well-liked candidates in the race.

Greg Fischer’s other problems aren’t going to help him, either:

• Fischer Campaign Solicits MoveOn Endorsement [March 27, 2008]
• Fischer’s FEC Report: You’re Gonna Love This [April 18, 2008]
• Fischer Struggles for Name I.D., Attacks [April 22, 2008]
• Andrew Horne Speaks Out on Greg Fischer [April 30, 2008]
• More Fischer Hypocrisy? Bandwagons and Everything? [May 7, 2008]
• More of Fischer’s Open Book: Big Pharma** [May 8, 2008]
• The Herald-Leader Profiles Fischer & More [May 9, 2008]
• Fischer Campaign Finance Mistake Take 100 [May 15, 2008]
• Rehashing Fischer’s Gen. Election Funds Snafu [May 19, 2008]
• Fischer Campaign Finance Issue Gets Reborn [September 29, 2009]
• Another Potential KREF Problem for Fischer [October 8, 2009]

Figured it’d be easier (Greg’s a fan of doing the easy thing, according to him at the Louisville Forum) to link what’s already out there in the public record than to re-write it all.

** Greg says he’s an open book. And his latest television spot is about customer service and transparency in government. So why did he all the sudden decide to send his campaign finance report to the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance by mail? So he could delay the process of the report getting released to the public. And so he could avoid having his campaign expenditures scrutinized, as they won’t be released. We won’t be holding our breathe as we await Fischer’s full KREF report to arrive in our email inbox.

In the latest television spot, Fischer says he’s running for mayor to make city hall the most open in the nation. He says that begins with offering more online services (but not for campaign finance reports?) and doing things out in the open (except when it comes to campaign finance reports). Maybe his next ad could say, “Do as I say, not as I do. Vote for Greg!”

Here it is:

I’m a bit confused, really, because I wasn’t aware John Yarmuth had stolen the peoples’ house. Pretty certain he won the seat – for which he donates his entire salary and votes the way a majority of locals want him to vote – by 18 or 19 percentage points over Anne Northup.

I commend Mr. Yarmuth for again donating his congressional salary to local charities.  But aren’t you tired of these wealthy guys, like Mr. Yarmuth, who are so out of touch with life as the rest of us know it, buying an office and playing at politics?  Politicians like Mr. Yarmuth, who are wrong on almost every issue that affects their constituency; voting for higher taxes, Cap and Trade, the Health Care debacle, and sky high deficits for as far as the eye can see.  Mr. Yarmuth is basically voting down the line for the Nancy Pelosi agenda for America. Millionaires, like Mr. Yarmuth, can afford to give away their salary and not miss a beat.  I wonder how many of Mr. Yarmuth’s constituency can afford his voting record much less to give away their entire salary, particularly in today’s economic environment?  I know I can’t.

I’d like to remind the apparently delusional Republican that voters like Congressman John Yarmuth’s stances so much that they have twice voted overwhelmingly for him. The most recent? A 17%+ victory over the very Northup-esque talking points Wicker is trying to push.

Somebody at the Courier-Journal just noticed East Market Street. You already know everything mentioned, but it’s a good read. [C-J]

Tricare is reconsidering Humana and UnitedHealth bids for a $21.8 billion contract. [Business First]

Patrick O’Shea’s is set to open any minute now on Main Street. And it is awesome to see that block come alive again.. [Broken Sidewalk]

Remember devil lady Anne Northup? She’s baaaack. And now she’s writing op-eds in the Wall Street Journal about how child-safety laws are killing American jobs and businesses. What she really means is child safety laws are killing child labor in China. She needs to go back to KT’s and Old Fashioneds. [WSJ]

Proud to see Crescent Hill named one of the south’s ten best comeback neighborhoods. [Southern Living]

Looks like Chuck Cash of Metro Planning is retiring. Will this end up being a hot mess? [C-J]

Anybody from the Abramson or Beshear Administrations want to try telling me Jerry Abramson isn’t on the ticket to help Cordish Cos out in the long run? Not just with gambling, but with free money? [Washington Post]

Here is evidence that Michelle is trying to give us a heart attack. [Consuming Louisville]

Perfect example of what’s wrong with Louisville: putting the interests of youth on hold in order to save some rich dude’s back yard. Jerry Abramson and the four or five families that control everything in Louisville just can’t be bothered with non-wealthy riffraff. [Sheldon Shafer]

Was the individual responsible for driving a car into a store at Westport Village in a Toyota? [WHAS11]

“Over the past 3 years, I have become increasingly concerned with the leadership of our country, including our Congressional Representative in the 3 District.  After long discussions with family and friends over the issues facing our community, I made the decision to run for Congress.  As such, I filed paperwork last week with the Federal Election Commission establishing a campaign committee to run for the 3 Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.”

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“As a husband, father and grandfather, I am running to leave our children with a brighter future. For the first time in my life, I am concerned that their future is in doubt as a result of the bitter partisanship that permeates Washington and the same-old big government approach taken by too many in Congress.  There have been too many empty promises and poor decisions made by our representative. Some of these decisions have resulted in benefits being shared by folks representing their own self interests and not the fine people of Louisville.”

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Not quite sure which empty promises and poor decisions John Yarmuth has made. Maybe he’s confusing John with our former congresscritter, Anne Northup?