{"id":15595,"date":"2017-09-15T04:02:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T08:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=15595"},"modified":"2017-09-24T20:02:01","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T00:02:01","slug":"governor-wants-state-ag-to-be-appointed-to-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2017\/09\/15\/governor-wants-state-ag-to-be-appointed-to-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Wants State AG To Be Appointed To Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12754\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2017\/03\/08\/bill-proposal-could-shift-ag-powers-to-governor\/bevin-a-beshear\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Bevin-A-Beshear.jpg?fit=800%2C509&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,509\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Bevin A Beshear\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Bevin-A-Beshear.jpg?fit=800%2C509&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Bevin-A-Beshear.jpg?resize=300%2C191\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Bevin-A-Beshear.jpg?resize=300%2C191&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Bevin-A-Beshear.jpg?resize=768%2C489&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Bevin-A-Beshear.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nKentucky Governor Matt Bevin says the state should consider amending its constitution to allow the governor to appoint the attorney general.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Republican governor told a meeting of the Kentucky chapter of the Federalist Society that it is unproductive to have a state&#8217;s attorney general and governor disagree so profoundly on a variety of issues. Democratic Attorney General Andy Beshear has sued Bevin four times for his use of executive authority. Beshear won one lawsuit. The others are pending.<\/p>\n<p>The two men have also disagreed over how the state should respond to lawsuits challenging new laws restricting labor unions and abortions.<\/p>\n<p>Beshear spokesman Terry Sebastian said the people of Kentucky deserve an independent attorney general, noting Beshear has used his office to arrest child predators and protect seniors from scams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin says the state should consider amending its constitution to allow the governor to appoint the attorney general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Bevin-A-Beshear.jpg?fit=800%2C509&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-43x","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 18:03:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15596,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15595\/revisions\/15596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}