<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> Joe Graviss <joe@joegraviss.com><br><b>Date:</b> November 12, 2019 at 4:40:41 PM EST<br><b>To:</b> Joe Graviss <joe@joegraviss.com><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>election update</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Hi everybody,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">As we wait for the November 14<sup>th</sup> recanvass of last week’s election for governor, it’s worth taking a moment to look back at the history of state government’s chief executive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Close to 60 people have served in that role since Kentucky became our country’s 15<sup>th</sup> state in 1792. During those earliest years, it was electors, not voters, who decided
who would be governor, mirroring a process still used to choose our presidents.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">That power was handed back to the people when the commonwealth’s second constitution was adopted in 1799, and it remains in place in our fourth and current state constitution, which
took effect in 1891.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">That document’s guidelines call for the newly elected governor to be officially sworn in to office on the fifth Tuesday after the election, which is Dec. 10<sup>th</sup> this year.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Tradition calls for a delegation of Frankfort residents to deliver country ham, beaten biscuits and white cake to the Governor’s Mansion on that day, furthering a trend that began
more than a century ago when an outgoing First Lady left behind a meal for the incoming governor and his family.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> Building that home’s predecessor was one of the General Assembly’s first acts back in the 1790s. That building is now known as the Old Governor’s Mansion, and it was
completed in 1798, pre-dating the White House by two years. The current Governor’s Mansion, located next to the Capitol, had its first residents in 1914.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">While the governor is often the most well-known official in the state, the truth is that only a few of our past leaders are remembered beyond the counties named in their honor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">One of the more well-known is our first – and fifth – governor, Isaac Shelby. He was a well-regarded war hero, serving in both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. He even
led the Kentucky militia in battle while governor, a move that earned him a Congressional Gold Medal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Though he spent eight years as governor, it did not appear to leave a lasting impression on him, because he dedicated all of one line in his autobiography to that time in his life.
Another interesting side note is that his eldest daughter, one of 11 children, married Dr. Ephraim McDowell, the father of abdominal surgery whose statue is one of the five in the Capitol Rotunda.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Kentucky’s second governor, James Garrard, was the first to serve two consecutive terms – and the last for a long time because of a change in the state constitution. It wasn’t until
voters amended that in 1992 that a governor could run for re-election, a provision that enabled Governor Paul Patton to serve again in 1999.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Our third governor, Christopher Greenup, was one of Kentucky’s two original members to the U.S. House of Representatives, and the fourth, Charles Scott, was George Washington’s chief
of intelligence. Another early one, George Madison, was a cousin of President James Madison and was also the first of five Kentucky governors to die in office.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">While most of our governors were attorneys, there have been a couple of physicians, a teacher and a journalist, but only one – Governor Martha Layne Collins – who was a woman. The
longest stretch between terms, meanwhile, easily belongs to Governor James B. McCreary. He was first elected in 1875 while in his thirties and again in 1911, when he was 73.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Overall, well over a dozen governors are buried in the Frankfort cemetery that overlooks the Capitol, while only five are buried outside of the Commonwealth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">With that in mind, Governor Simon Bolivar Buckner’s life truly came full circle. He died in the very same room he had been born in 91 years earlier.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">As for now, this year’s race for governor will clear its next, and perhaps final, hurdle this week when a recanvass of votes is conducted. If the current margin of victory holds
and is unchallenged, Gov.-elect Andy Beshear will take office next month and begin preparing for next year’s legislative session, which starts in January.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">I’ll of course keep you posted as that process moves forward. If you have thoughts or concerns about this or other issues, please let me know. My email is
</span><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0563C1"><a href="mailto:joe.graviss@lrc.ky.gov"><span style="color:#0563C1">joe.graviss@lrc.ky.gov</span></a></span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">,
and you can also leave a message for me or for any legislator at 800-372-7181. For those with a hearing impairment, the number is 800-896-0305.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Thanks for all you do and holler anytime.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Joe Graviss<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">56<sup>th</sup> District Representative<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kentucky House of Representatives<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">P.O. Box 1002<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Versailles, KY 40383<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">859-433-4392<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt">“Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at it’s best is love correcting everything that stands against love.” Dr. Martin Luther King, August 16, 1967<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt">“I believe we can agree that hearing and considering opinions differing from our own is important, and acknowledging the honorable and sincere intentions of our adversaries in advocacy should take precedence
over partisan interests.” </span></i><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Nathaniel Adams-- April 20, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt">“Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.” </span></i><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Franklin
Delano Roosevelt—June 27, 1936<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt">"What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and compassion
toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black."
</span></i><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Robert F. Kennedy, April 4, 1968.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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