I just called the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which represents over 13,000 Kentucky state employees, and asked what they thought of the Great Kentucky Blog Ban.
“This attempt by the governor to sweep under the rug his gross ethical violations is shameless,” spokeswoman Jodi Sakol told me, referring to the numerous transgressions by the state’s GOP governor, Ernie Fletcher. “If he thinks that by trying to cover up what he’s done it’s going to go away, he’s wrong.”
Sakol said AFSCME, which is the largest state employees’ union in Kentucky, “calls on the governor to lift his ban on workers having access to the free press.”
