Governor Matt Bevin (R-KY) is insulting his state legislature’s only African American woman, Representative Attica Scott (D-KY), today.
Scott quickly made him regret it (tweets below).
In less than two years in the Frankfort Governor’s Mansion, Bevin has dismantled the Commonwealth’s incredibly successful healthcare exchange, which lowered the state’s uninsured rate from more than 20% to 6%; gutted worker protections; welcomed discrimination of virtually all minorities; and waged an unprecedented war on the free press. Sound familiar, Trump watchers?
The unabashed Trump sycophant also made headlines in October after a deranged gunman carried out the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history by suggesting that government leaders should not even attempt to try to stop future killings:
To all those political opportunists who are seizing on the tragedy in Las Vegas to call for more gun regs…You can't regulate evil…
— Governor Matt Bevin (@GovMattBevin) October 2, 2017
The statement was in line with a governor who frequently fires off ill-thought Republican propaganda regardless of the dangerous repercussions.
Now, he is inexplicably targeting Scott, unprovoked and without explanation, by blocking the state rep from his official government Twitter account.
Scott has been a forceful and effective voice against the governor’s disastrous agenda, but she is certainly not the only legislator to oppose him. His cowardly and immature move is not only a rebuke of his obligation to govern transparently — the latest in a long, disturbing pattern — but an act that is impossible to explain without ascribing his motives, at least in part, to bigotry.
Credit to Scott who refused to take the pathetic slight lying down. She gave the governor’s insult the smackdown it deserved. Enjoy.
Good morning! I was blocked over the weekend from following your governor. Very mature, Matthew. .@GovMattBevin I do not care at all for your politics and cannot imagine how the only Black woman in the Kentucky legislature is a threat to you. pic.twitter.com/qfIoZ38nWW
— Attica Woodson Scott (@atticascott) December 18, 2017
It is clear @GovMattBevin that you are threatened by the one woman of color in the entire legislature. I have dealt with men like you on many occasions. You feign condemnation of sexual harassment by House members but your axns are examples of what happens leading up to assault.
— Attica Woodson Scott (@atticascott) December 18, 2017
@GovMattBevin You are an insult to an office where the temporary occupant should welcome criticism and feedback. You touted yourself as a political outsider yet you cannot handle political truths from another elected outsider of a different gender and race. Tsk tsk.
— Attica Woodson Scott (@atticascott) December 18, 2017
