"At Least She Doesn't Sleep on the Job"
Rep. Tom Burch is under fire from the newspapers for writing letters to judges and recommending ex-girlfriends for jobs.
Tom Burch is someone the Club rarely agrees with, but we will admit that there is a difficult line for a legislator to walk between working for his or her constituents and using one's office to influence others inappropriately, a line that it seems Burch doesn't pay due discretion.
But we have to make fun of the current case, where the Beshear administration created a position in the Health and Family Services Cabinet during a budget crisis for Burch's ex-girlfriend, and all Burch has to offer is:
“She’s more qualified than some of the people that have worked there,” he said on Thursday. “I walked in there 20 years ago and found one of the supervisors sleeping.”
If "more qualified than a sleeping supervisor" is the best compliment Burch can muster for his ex, then I guess we know why they're no longer together.
