Post by Logan on Feb 24, 2016 0:36:50 GMT -6
FRANKFORT -- Claiming that “things have gone awry” at the Kentucky Horse Park, Senate Majority Leader Damon Thayer successfully urged a Senate committee Tuesday to sign off on his proposal to reorganize the park’s governing board.
The 9-1 vote by the Senate Economic Development, Tourism and Labor Committee on Senate Bill 200 came after Jamie Link, the park’s executive director, said the park was “a mess” when he came on board in November 2014 but that significant improvements have been made.
Thayer said earlier this month when he first introduced his bill that he had no confidence in Link, who had been former Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear’s deputy chief of staff.
Thayer, whose district includes 200 acres of the 1,224-acre park in northern Fayette County, also expressed no confidence in Beshear’s wife, Jane Beshear, whom the former governor appointed to the horse park commission shortly before he left office last December; and commission chairwoman Alston Kerr, a friend of Jane Beshear.
Read more here: www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article61999382.html
The 9-1 vote by the Senate Economic Development, Tourism and Labor Committee on Senate Bill 200 came after Jamie Link, the park’s executive director, said the park was “a mess” when he came on board in November 2014 but that significant improvements have been made.
Thayer said earlier this month when he first introduced his bill that he had no confidence in Link, who had been former Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear’s deputy chief of staff.
Thayer, whose district includes 200 acres of the 1,224-acre park in northern Fayette County, also expressed no confidence in Beshear’s wife, Jane Beshear, whom the former governor appointed to the horse park commission shortly before he left office last December; and commission chairwoman Alston Kerr, a friend of Jane Beshear.
Read more here: www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article61999382.html