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
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.
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,
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.'
outside of the students and the preparation that you had before you arrived at school, there is no question that the quality of the teacher is the single most important factor in how much a student learns.
It is now clear to me that there were mistakes made by staff members.
I thought I gave you a challenge you wouldn't do, ... but you did it, very quickly.
That's tough, but I think that's what a leader is called to do.
Over the next couple of years we will work very hard to serve the people. And then I'll leave the future in their hands,
We've made some tough decisions, and I don't expect you to understand that,
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.
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.
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?