On January 11, the Kentucky Senate passed SB 4 by 24-11. It moves elections for statewide state office, including Governor, from the odd year before a presidential election, to presidential election years. All Republicans voted “yes” and all Democrats voted “no.” Democrats believe that if the state officers are elected in presidential years, that will help Republican candidates for statewide state office.
The bill now goes to the House. Because it changes the state constitution, it needs 60 votes. The House has 64 Republicans and 36 Democrats.
What happened in 1960, 1964, 1976, 1992, 1996, 2008, 2012 ??? Duh.
Your comment is even more cryptic than usual Demo Rep. Please explain.
For the young and unaware —
Donkey Prezs got elected in such 1960 to 2012 years — sometimes with KY majorities.
IE — the Guv date switch may/will elect some Donkey Guvs.
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PR and AppV
Oh…
Would this in effect extend the term of all sitting legislators and the current governor by 1 year?
Looks like if passed it would indeed extend the terms by 1 year for those individuals elected in 2019.
https://www.lanereport.com/85582/2018/01/kentucky-house-panel-advances-two-constitutional-amendments/
http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/legresou/constitu/256.htm
Space added between sentences.
What genius-MORON dreamed up the 4 limit ???
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Kentucky Constitution
Section 256
Amendments to Constitution — How proposed and voted upon.
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Amendments to this Constitution may be proposed in either House of the General Assembly at a regular session, and if such amendment or amendments shall be agreed to by three-fifths of all the members elected to each House, such proposed amendment or amendments, with the yeas and nays of the members of each House taken thereon, shall be entered in full in their respective journals.
Then such proposed amendment or amendments shall be submitted to the voters of the State for their ratification or rejection at the next general election for members of the House of Representatives, the vote to be taken thereon in such manner as the General Assembly may provide, and to be certified by the officers of election to the Secretary of State in such manner as shall be provided by law, which vote shall be compared and certified by the same board authorized by law to compare the polls and give certificates of election to officers for the State at large.
If it shall appear that a majority of the votes cast for and against an amendment at said election was for the amendment, then the same shall become a part of the Constitution of this Commonwealth, and shall be so proclaimed by the Governor, and published in such manner as the General Assembly may direct.
Said amendments shall not be submitted at an election which occurs less than ninety days from the final passage of such proposed amendment or amendments.
Not more than four amendments shall be voted upon at any one time.
If two or more amendments shall be submitted at the same time, they shall be submitted in such manner that the electors shall vote for or against each of such amendments separately, but an amendment may relate to a single subject or to related subject matters and may amend or modify as many articles and as many sections of the Constitution as may be necessary and appropriate in order to accomplish the objectives of the amendment.
The approval of the Governor shall not be necessary to any bill, order, resolution or vote of the General Assembly, proposing an amendment or amendments to this Constitution.
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Text as Ratified on: November 6, 1979. 
History: 1979 amendment was proposed by 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 433, sec. 1; original version ratified August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891.
The bill has no effect on state legislative elections. They are already held in even years, every two years.
Legis-exec elections – years
Fed – even
State – odd
Local – even
— to increase competition
@DR,
In 2016 in a rally in Ohio, Hillary Clinton proclaimed that she would put the coal miners out of business, as she chopped down with her hand, and then smirked, “right Tim?”, to Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan who was in the audience. Probably since she was thinking about West Virginia and Kentucky she channeled her southern voice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksIXqxpQNt0
The campaign spent the next several weeks trying to explain that she was actually making a carefully nuanced statement.
If it was October 2020 and the Democratic presidential candidate was campaigning in Kentucky, a Democratic gubernatorial candidate would probably take a short vacation in Alaska to avoid being seen with him or her.
JR —
Reviewing the corruption and insanity of the past is only relevant in making reforms for the future.
The monster Clinton lost OH, WV and KY [and MI and PA and FL, etc.] with her super-leftwing control freak gangster ravings.
See FEC – Federal Elections 2016, p. 6 [with footnote mention of the moron faithless Prez electors]
OH USA Rep T. Ryan got 67.7 PCT in his packed gerrymander dist. ibid p. 156
PR and NONPARTISAN AppV — any wannabee top monsters will likely NOT talk about any other candidate wannabee monsters in other regimes and govt branches — for fear of going down in flames — guilt by association.