Ernie Fletcher
Ernie Fletcher
Ernest Lee "Ernie" Fletcheris an American physician and politician. In 1998, he was elected to the first of three consecutive terms in the United States House of Representatives; he resigned in 2003 after being elected the 60th Governor of Kentucky and served in that office until 2007. Prior to his entry into politics, Fletcher was a family practice physician and a Baptist lay minister. He is the second physician to be elected Governor of Kentucky; the first was Luke P...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 November 1952
CountryUnited States of America
What can we do to make your experience better? And why are you here? What makes this class so exciting for you and something special?
This type of redundancy in disseminating information is important if we are to rescue abducted children quickly,
To the people who may have been hurt by our mistakes, I apologize.
Film making is another very effective form of economic development for Kentucky, ... A positive picture of Kentucky projected by the film and television industry has a direct effect on our image as a state. People like what they see, so they'll want to visit or live here, which, in turn creates more jobs ... and more opportunity for our people.
It's going to be some time before the city is back up and operating normally,
It won't be perfect, and it will receive criticism, and rightly so, but if we don't address it, we won't be able to provide the education we need, ... We can't tax our way out of it.
Taxing tobacco products according to relative risks is a rational tax policy and may well serve the public health goal of reducing smoking-related mortality and morbidity and lowering health care costs associated with tobacco-related disease,
It looked like there was so much bipartisan support for the COLA, I didn't think anybody wanted to make it a major, controversial issue.
Whenever I am among my fellow Governors, I am struck by how many face the same education improvement issues.
I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political 'gotcha.'
We will attract more people to Kentucky by lowering our income tax rate. In fact, lowering the income tax rate is the single most important thing we can do to create opportunity.
We're evaluating the possibility of that, ... If that would be necessary, we need to see what effect that would have on our ability to fund particular projects and meet our bond requirements.
wanted to wait to get all the information I could.
We want this issue to be resolved quickly, ... It is important to get a decision. She has to look at the legal aspects and make the right legal decision. She knows where I stand on the issue.