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By Aaron Yarmuth | ayarmuth@leoweekly.com I GET IT… “Both parties are the same!”

(No, they’re really not.)

“The two-party system is broken!”

(Yeah, because the two-party system needs two parties! Democrats are in one party and Republicans are posing as a party and only want to shrink and dismantle government.)

“I’m voting for a third-party candidate, because I’m staying true to my values… and F- the big party machine!”

Voting for a third party candidate is not a righteous alternative — it doesn’t send the message you think it sends, and it can only undermine values you profess as pure.

Four years ago, I made a last-ditch appeal to those disenchanted voters who disliked Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and were considering a protest vote for a third-party candidate.

“Protest vote at our peril” (Nov. 2, 2016), I concluded: Should your votes — cast in the interest of preserving your conscience — lead to the election of Donald Trump,

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we will all have much graver concerns than your purity.

Some good that did.

The graver concerns I expressed involved North Korea, Iran and our warming planet, but as we found out, the greater peril has included over 225,000 deaths and counting because of Trump’s AWOL response to a global pandemic.

But, I was right, though, in 2016. And I’m right again: If you are planning to vote in protest of Biden or Trump, McGrath or McConnell — or not vote at all — you do so at our peril. You do so at the expense of every issue you claim to care about.

“How is that possible?” you ask.

Well, it’s simple: A protest vote says, “I dislike both options so much, I’m going to express my displeasure by voting for someone who isn’t going to win.” Displeasure with the system. Displeasure with the status quo. Displeasure that your first choice, primary candidate didn’t win.

It’s inarguable that voting for or against a candidate or a party can help push or prevent policies that impact the issue you care about

completely agree with the person you vote most. Casting a protest vote, on the other hand, can lead you only further away from for, that is, unless you run for office. So stop the issue. For instance, none of the Green allowing perfect to obstruct better.

Party/Jill Stein voters in 2016 served their “I always used to tell my staff, ain’t nothconcern for the environment by not voting ing wrong with better,” President Obama for Clinton — or, rather, against Trump. said last week at a round table with comBiden might not be an environmental munity leaders in Philadelphia. crusader of the Green New Deal, but if If you want to make your vote count Trump is reelected, we’ll be much further for something; if you want to see progress away from Any Green Deal and any chance on (or prevent further damage done to) of saving the planet. any issue; if you want “better,” you need Biden seems like a tremendously decent, to understand what your one and only vote caring person. Yet, means. out of 300 million One final thing to Nothing goes Americans, it’s consider: Instead of straight from impossible to argue blaming and bucking he is the best person the two-party system shambles to to be President. He for its failings, why not is, however, the perfect. In order to try to improve things only person at the by participating in it? get to perfect, we moment who can Nothing goes straight beat Trump… so, it from shambles to have to start with turns out, he is the perfect. In order to get best option. to perfect, we have to better, first.

The same goes start with better, first. for McGrath. She Perpetuating what’s might not be the candidate you wanted — wrong because you’re angry with it, doesn’t she wasn’t my first choice — but she’s the solve any problems — in fact, it sounds a lot best option for me and realizing the issues I like the angry Trump voter. care about.

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HOW LOUISVILLE AND KENTUCKY VOTERS VIEW BESHEAR, BIDEN, FISCHER, MCCONNELL AND TRUMP

By Perry Bacon Jr. | leo@leoweekly.com WE IN THE MEDIA, myself included, tend to cover elections through the frame of the candidate, i.e. “Will Joe Biden win?” “Can President Trump appeal to people in the suburbs,” “Does Amy McGrath have the right message for Eastern Kentucky?” But that in some ways distorts how elections actually work. The real actors in the election, the deciders, are the voters, not the candidates.

The real questions are, “Will voters in the suburbs reject Trump?” “Will voters in Kentucky’s rural areas reelect Mitch McConnell again?” “How did voters respond to McGrath’s strong debate performance?”

The reason we all obsess about candidates is that it’s a lot easier to analyze the actions of two people (McGrath and McConnell) than 2 million people (the likely number of voters in the McGrath-McConnell race). That’s why polls are so important.

Polls often can’t give us accurate answers on questions where the margins are very narrow (Will Clinton or Trump win Pennsylvania?), but they answer other questions quite clearly (Will Clinton or Trump win Kentucky?).

They are probably our best way of assessing opinions of a large group of people.

And they are an even better tool if used in the right way. In my view, the most important use of polls in the political context is not necessarily to predict elections (the event will happen, and we will know the result) but to understand public opinion outside of the one day every two years most of us vote. For example, the polls are a bit unclear on whether Biden or Trump will win the presidential election. But the polls are very clear that the overwhelming majority of Republicans will back Trump. You might say, well duh! But I doubt five years ago you would have imagined that a candidate who had tried to coerce a foreign government into investigating his political rival, wavered when asked to condemn white supremacists and mishandled a virus outbreak so badly that more than 200,000 people died would have had any chance of winning a presidential election in America. The almost universal support of Trump among GOP voters is very important, and the kind of thing that we would only know by doing constant polling.

With all that said, here is what public opinion looks like in Kentucky right now.

There isn’t a ton of polling of Kentucky overall, and almost none of say, just Louis-

ville or Bowling Green. But there is some data, and it’s fairly interesting.

Kentucky voters like Biden more than Clinton and like Trump a bit less than four years ago. But they like Trump a lot more than Biden.

About 57% of Kentucky voters approved of President Trump in January 2017, compared to 34% who disapproved, according to data from Civiqs, a nonpartisan firm where I got much of the data for this story from. Now, 58% approve, 39% disapprove, according to Civiqs. Trump is much more unpopular outside of Kentucky — just 42% of voters across the country approve of him, 55% disapprove.

Only 32% of Kentuckians have a favorable view of Joe Biden, compared to 63% who have an unfavorable view, according to Civiqs. Biden is more popular nationally — 44% favorable, 51% unfavorable.

In 2016, Trump won Kentucky over Hillary Clinton 63% to 33%. Biden is likely to do significantly better, at least based on recent polls: Trump 57%, Biden 42%, SurveyMonkey Trump 56%, Biden 38%, Data for Progress Trump 58%, Biden 38%, Quinnipiac University So, Biden seems likely to lose around 60% to 40% in Kentucky. Losing by 20 points is a significant improvement from 30, but Kentucky seems quite red at the presidential level for now.

But Kentucky voters aren’t too jazzed about America under Trump.

Forty-eight percent of Kentucky voters think that things in the country are headed in the wrong direction, compared to 45% who think they are headed in the right direction, per Civiqs. So, Kentuckians don’t love America under Trump. But across the country, voters are more pessimistic — 62% think the country is headed in the wrong direction, compared to 32% who say right direction.

McConnell is hated nationally but not here McConnell is way more unpopular than Trump or Biden across the country. Just 29% of Americans have a favorable view of him,

satisfied with the federal government’s compared to 58% with an unfavorable view, response to the virus outbreak, compared to according to Civiqs. Nationally, 67% of 44% who are unsatisfied. Voters across the Republicans view him favorably, 14% unfavorably, 19% are not sure. Those are fairly country (58% unsatisfied, 40% satisfied) are low numbers among Republicans, considerless enthusiastic about the federal response ing how effective McConnell has been in to COVID-19 than those in Kentucky. executing Republican policy goals.

The names Beshear and Trump were In Kentucky, 47% of voters approve of not specifically invoked in these questions.

McConnell, 44% disapprove. Those aren’t But this polling suggests that Kentuckians great numbers, but they are probably good think Beshear has done as good or better enough for him to a job dealing with win reelection.

COVID-19 as Trump.

McConnell is way It’s worth noting Considering how that part of McConGOP-leaning the state more unpopunell’s unpopularity is, it’s likely that at lar than Trump or across the country least some Kentucky is related to the Republican voters are Biden across the job of being a top putting their partisan congressional leader. country. Just 29% leanings aside and Americans don’t acknowledging the of Americans have obvious (Beshear like Congress or the partisan divide has handled the a favorable view in Washington, and virus outbreak better congressional leaders than Trump). These of him, compared exemplify both. And numbers in some to 58% with an there is not a huge ways contradict the party apparatus prostory being told by unfavorable view, moting congressional Kentucky Republican leaders nationally in according to Civiqs. officials — that the the way that the two state is full of people Nationally, 67% of angry about how parties are promoting Biden and Trump.

Beshear has handled Republicans view So, House Speaker the virus outbreak Nancy Pelosi is also him favorably, 14% and therefore the unpopular nationally legislature must unfavorably, 19% (54% unfavorable, roll back Beshear’s 38% favorable, per emergency powers in are not sure.

Civiqs) and really 2021. The legislature unpopular in Kencan certainly take tucky (71% unfavorable, 23% favorable.) away his powers, but there is little evidence that is a demand from the public.

Kentuckians are happy with Gov. Andy In polling conducted in August, 58% Beshear’s response to the COVID-19 of Kentuckians said they approved of how outbreak Beshear had handled the virus outbreak, Ten percent of Kentuckians are “comaccording to the COVID-19 Consortium for pletely satisfied” with the state and local Understanding the Public’s Policy Prefergovernment response to the virus outbreak, ences Across States.

47% are “mostly satisfied,” 24% are “not very satisfied” and 18% are “not satisfied at Kentuckians want to build the wall, legalall,” according to Civiqs. So 57% satisfied, ize pot, enact a new economic stimulus 40% not satisfied. That’s fairly similar to bill and something like the Green New how Americans across the country feel about Deal, provide extra money to people untheir local and state governments’ responses employed due to COVID-19 and rethink (53% satisfied, 45% unsatisfied.) mandatory minimum jail sentences.

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views that don’t line up cleanly with either party. Kentuckians are the same way. Building a wall along the entire U.S-Mexico border, a position favored by Trump but opposed by Democrats, is supported by 60% of Kentuckians and opposed by just 35%, per Civiqs. (Nationally, 44% of Americans support this idea while 52% oppose it.)

At the same time, 63% of Kentuckians favor making marijuana legal, compared to just 23% who oppose that idea, similar to the national numbers (68/21.)

Polling from the left-leaning firm Data for Progress found that Kentuckians favor by a 57-32 margin having increased benefits for unemployed people as long as the jobless rate is elevated in the wake of the COVID-19 break, favor by a 77-9 margin a $2 trillion jobs program to help the nation recover from COVID-19, and favor by a 49-29 margin “federal investments to achieve a carbon pollution-free electricity sector by 2035.”

Sixty-four percent of Kentuckians would support allowing a judge not to impose a mandatory minimum sentence if the judge felt the sentence was too harsh, according to a poll conducted in June by YouGov Blue, a liberal-leaning polling firm. Just 24% of Kentuckians opposed this idea.

Louisville residents are unhappy with Mayor Greg Fischer, but divided on whether or not he should resign.

Thirty-four percent of Louisville residents approve of Mayor Fischer’s performance, compared to 52% who disapprove, according to a poll conducted in early October by Kentucky Politics Weekly podcast.

Just 28% rated Fischer as doing an excellent or good job in terms of “law and order and managing the Louisville Metro Police Department,” compared to 50% who said that he was doing a poor job on that front.

Similarly, 47% of residents said Fischer was doing poorly in terms of dealing with “race relations and social justice,” compared to 27% who said good or excellent. Forty-three percent said Fischer should finish his term

(which ends in 2022), 46% said he should step down, the remaining bloc was not sure.

This was a poll with a fairly small sample size and not an entity I had seen do previous polls about Louisville, so I am reluctant to draw too much from it. But the Kentucky Politics Weekly podcast and this poll are initiatives of Tres Watson, who was once the communications director of the Kentucky Republican Party. If 80% of Louisvillians wanted Fischer to resign, I am guessing Watson would have been happy to advertise that. So, this data suggests Fischer is unpopular but also that the city is not clamoring for him to step down.

If Amy McGrath won (or John Yarmuth lost), it would be a huge, huge upset.

Watch for Democrat Josh Hicks in the Lexingtonarea U.S. House seat.

The latest polls on the McGrathMcConnell race differ on how big the senator’s lead is (12, 15 or 7), but all agree McConnell is a big favorite.

So FiveThirtyEight says McConnell has a 96 in 100 chance of winning; The Economist says McConnell has a 97% chance. Yarmuth’s chances are rated as more than 99 in 100.

Josh Hicks is the Democrat running for the U.S. House seat that McGrath ran for unsuccessfully in 2018 against incumbent Republican Andy Barr. (Barr won 51-48.)

FiveThirtyEight says Hicks has just a 15 in 100 chance. I don’t expect Hicks to win.

But if Biden ends up winning the election nationally by 11 percentage points, his current lead in polls, Biden might have enough coattails to sweep into office someone like Hicks, who is running in an urban area that has the kinds of voters who might have backed Republicans before but are unhappy with Trump and ready to cast out GOP lawmakers like Barr who have largely aligned with the president. • Perry Bacon Jr. is a national political writer based in Louisville. He can be reached at perrylbacon@gmail.com.

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By Al Cross | leo@leoweekly.com AS OUR TUMULTUOUS, pandemic-extended legislating a new court map that would start in 2030. election consumes the country, this space “You’re not going to re-circuit unless the takes a breath to offer a closer look at somecommonwealth’s attorneys are for it,” said thing important on Kentucky’s ballot and a state Rep. Jason Nemes, R-Louisville, who look back at a political kingmaker. once ran the Administrative Office of the If your ballot has several races, you Courts and shepherded the amendment to may miss one or both of the constitutional the ballot. amendments on the back. You may have The idea of giving district judges eightheard of the first one, “Marsy’s Law” to year terms has its critics, and they have establish rights for crime victims, but a point. If we’re going to elect judges, it chances are you haven’t heard about makes sense for those at the bottom of the the other one, which also deserves your pecking order to have attention. shorter terms, to be Amendment 2 has If your ballot has more responsive to a lot of constitutional several races, you the public. But there verbiage, but all you are effective procereally need to read is may miss one or dures for punishing Section 1: and removing judges “Are you in favor both of the conwho misbehave, and of changing the term stitutional amend- the amendment has a of commonwealth’s requiring attorneys from sixments on the back. sweetener: district judges to be year terms to eightyear terms beginning You may have heard licensed attorneys for eight years instead of in 2030, changing of the first one, the current two. the terms of judges Two years is far of the District Court ‘Marsy’s Law’ to from long enough. from four-year terms It’s a relic of the to eight-year terms establish rights last big constitubeginning in 2022 for crime victims, tional amendment and requiring district on the judiciary, in judges to have been but chances are 1975. One thing that licensed attorneys for measure did was at least eight years you haven’t heard create district courts, beginning in 2022 ... about the other to replace county as stated below?” and city courts and What the ballot one, which also require judges to language and the be lawyers. Fearnews reporting about deserves your ing that many rural it don’t tell you is attention. areas wouldn’t have why the legislature enough lawyers to is asking voters to fill the seats, the authors of the amendlengthen the terms of district judges and ment set the experience bar low. Raising it prosecutors.

It’s really as much about circuit judges as would give us better district courts and the amendment as a whole would improve the district judges. The circuit judges’ caseloads administration of justice. are horribly unbalanced, so the circuits (and “You can have judges all over the state the districts, which almost entirely correwho have ... never taken a deposition, never spond) need to be redrawn to even out the tried a case, never been a real lawyer,” work and, in some cases, make room for Nemes said. “This isn’t partisan; this is just more judges to handle it. nuts and bolts, let’s improve the judiciary.”

Changing those boundaries is politically difficult, because the judges’ and prosecutors’ terms usually don’t line up, so the IN MEMORY OF ‘MR. amendment would give them all eight-year CHAIRMAN’ TERRY MCBRAYER terms, starting 10 years from now, one of the Terry McBrayer, who died at 83 on Oct. rare times that they do line up. That would 11, was mainly known in the last half of clear out most of the political obstacles to

his life as a lawyer and lobbyist who was influential and sometimes powerful. Those adjectives dominated the news coverage of his death and the accounts of his life, but strangely they missed something that may have been his greatest legacy: the eightyear governorship of fellow Democrat Paul Patton.

In the 1995 governor’s race, our only one that has had spending limits for candidates, McBrayer ran the state Democratic Party and the parallel campaign that made the difference in Patton’s race with Republican Larry Forgy, who was the favorite of many insiders. After a tough primary, “I was a deer in the headlights,” Patton told me after McBrayer passed.

Consultants to President Bill Clinton, a McBrayer buddy, produced ads that accused Republicans of planning to sell federal lakes and other fanciful notions, hanging the increasingly unpopular Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich around Forgy’s neck. They became one person, “Dole-Gingrich.” McBrayer and others raised the ad money and Patton won by 21,560 votes out of a million cast – and was easily reelected in 1999.

“Without him and [regular campaign manager] Skipper Martin, I wouldn’t be elected,” Patton said. “He made me governor of Kentucky.”

For McBrayer, that victory must have soothed the wounds of 1979, when he was the nominal front runner in the governor’s race, by virtue of being then-Gov. Julian Carroll’s commerce commissioner, then faded as the administration (but not him) became mired in a federal investigation. He ended the race broke, went back to the law and helped form a national network of statecapital lobbyists and lawyers that included Hillary Clinton.

He ran the state party for only a few months, but relished being called “Mr. Chairman,” which I did for years afterward.

People like him made covering politics fun.

He was ebullient, solicitous, courteous, savvy and incisive. “He had the people skills to do anything,” Patton recalled. “He was always enjoyable to be around.” And that means we will miss him. • Al Cross, a former Courier Journal political writer, is professor and director of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues at UK. He writes this column for the Kentucky Center for Public Service Journalism. On Twitter he is @ruralj.

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MCCONNELL’S BIG SECRET REVEALED: WHO IS ‘ANONYMOUS’?

A SENIOR TRUMP ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL?

By Ilene Zeldin | leo@leoweekly.com For two years, U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao have played a secret family game to derail Donald Trump’s presidency. They tried hard to cover up their clandestine actions before next week’s election. But truth won, and the family secret is out.

Chao indeed appears to be the mysterious anonymous author who wrote the scathing New York Times op-ed about Trump two years ago. A year later, “Anonymous,” a “senior Trump administration official,” penned the New York Times best-seller “A Warning,” which screams: don’t reelect Trump!

My investigation also shows that Chao is the book author.

Who do I think helped her do this?

Mitch McConnell’s speechwriter Andrew Quinn.

I suspected this in February, when LEO Weekly published my comparison of hundreds of pages of McConnell’s speeches to the book. There were multiple echoes of similar language and phrases lifted from speeches that appeared in the book. The high-minded power couple laughed off my evidence, which only encouraged me to hunt for more, and there was plenty to be found.

I have this simple belief that elected officials should have the guts to tell the truth and not lie. Not give us small white lies. Or blatant lies like this breathtaking one, which is up there with McConnell’s grand deceptions about replacing Supreme Court justices or tired arguments about Russian interference in elections.

THE WORST, BEST & MOST ABSURD ABSURD: THE LMPD PISSES OFF EVERYONE!

One detail not fully explained in the Breonna Taylor case is why the Louisville police cannot ask the U.S. Postal Service about suspected parcels. The Courier Journal reports that Shively police act as a go-between.

Postal inspectors “don’t want any more dealings with Louisville Metro units” because of “bad blood” from a past incident, a Shivley police sergeant said. The LMPD has not told The CJ why. Remember, this comes after Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly wrote in an email that the FBI “aren’t cops and would piss their pants if they had to hold the line.” So, now we know: When a Louisville cop acts like an asshole, you can take solace that likely it is not about you — it is probably about them.

THORN: DON’T BE A MASK-HOLE!

If you think you are invincible, here are some staggering facts: Kentucky set a record for new COVID-19 cases for third time in the past seven days The CJ reported, with a total of more than 99,000 cases and more than 1,400 who have died. This news comes as Gov. Andy Beshear has issued recommendations that align with the tight rules he ordered at the start of the pandemic.

THORN: WHY KY DEMS LOSE You see, Mr. McConnell, I have a long memory of what it’s like being a speechwriter for one former senator you keep talking about: Joe Biden.

Deceit is not what I witnessed as his Senate speechwriter. When he hired me, he compared me to a golf coach; he said if I tried to change his swing, we wouldn’t get along.

He swung dead straight. He never asked me to write about something during the day and then write the exact opposite at night. He always dealt

straight with a fellow senator. He never had me working on the taxpayer’s dime for his wife. No, instead, Jill Biden would supply me stories from her students that I could use in her husband’s speeches.

Nor could I imagine what Fritz Hollings, another one of my former bosses and one of the Senate’s most candid members ever, would think of your antics. After he spoke on the floor, he would send me to the court reporters’ office to make sure every word was

DENIALS, NO COMMENTS ALL AROUND... AGAIN SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION Elaine Chao’s chief of staff, Todd Inman, told LEO in February she did not write “A Warning” by Anonymous. “Categorically No, she did not write, help, be involved with, and I suspect won’t even read ‘A Warning,’” Inman said.

And last week, he said nothing has changed.

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In February, U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell’s spokesman Robert Steurer told LEO, “No,” when asked whether Chao, McConnell’s wife, and the senator’s speechwriter Andrew Quinn wrote or helped write the book.

He did not return a request for comment last week for McConnell or Quinn.

State Rep. Attica Scott told New York Magazine that the state Democratic party did not support her when she was arrested on a trumped up rioting charge. In Virginia, the state Democratic party held a rally and voiced formal support for a lawmaker who had been arrested.

In Kentucky, zilch. “Yet the Tennessee Democratic Party issued a statement. Ohio’s Democratic Women’s Caucus issued a statement,” Scott told the magazine. The state party did not respond to NYM’s request for comment.

ROSE: ‘IT HURTS TO NOT TRY’

Here is handsome Kentucky Man George Clooney on why he supports Amy McGrath, even though she likely cannot beat Mitch McConnell: “Of course you fight the losing fights, and of course you go into them fully expecting that you’re going to lose this fight,” he told Vanity Fair. “But that’s how democracy works. You fight it, and fight it, and at some point it changes. It doesn’t hurt to lose. It hurts to not try.”

ABSURD: M.I.T. = MASSIE IS TIRESOME

U.S. Rep. Thomas “Ayn Wrong” Massie, who thinks his M.I.T. education means he is smarter than everyone, showed his ignorance when he tweeted that he will not take a coronavirus vaccine. He told The CJ he thinks he has immunity already. Vote for his Democratic opponent, Dr. Alexandra Owensby. She might live longer.

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taken down correctly for the Congressional Record. He’d always say: “Let the record speak.”

It sure has. Through your recorded words, White House actions, press reports and reading between the lines, I found all the material I needed to link you to Anonymous.

Dear readers, you be the judge:

THE NEW YORK SPEECH

During this month’s debate with Amy McGrath, McConnell continuously made the same argument: I am not from New York, like Chuck Schumer. If you vote for Amy McGrath, she’ll put this New Yorker in charge of the Senate.

But it was McConnell, not the senators from New York, who in June, with 40 million Americans out of work, ran to the Senate floor to express his displeasure that two New York Times editorial editors were pushed out of their jobs after publishing an inflammatory op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton , R-Arkansas.

What relevance did it have to Kentucky?

None.

What relevance did it have to McConnell?

A lot.

The two editors are responsible for publishing the infamous op-ed under the Anonymous byline, but I believe they know the name.

McConnell, Chao and Quinn have a deep interest in those editors, who have protected the identity of the op-ed writer for 25 months and counting.

THE SPEECHWRITER’S TWEETS

Speechwriter Quinn, who previously worked at the American Enterprise Institute where he helped Arthur Brooks write 40 New York Times columns, was so pleased with McConnell’s floor speech, he tweeted about it — five times.

Quinn is an avid tweeter, and I found many tweets where he used the same words, in the same way Anonymous employed them in the book. Words like “snark” when talking about social media, or “circuit breaker” as a way to stop government. On Twitter, Quinn tweeted about “naked political threats,” while in the book Anonymous talked about “naked corruption” and “naked self-interest.” In Quinn’s Twitter profile he quoted George Orwell: “To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.” Who else is an Orwell fan?

Anonymous, of course, who describes an “Orwellian up-is-down culture” in the White

cal figures and philosophers; and the White House was intrigued that Williams College alumnus, Bernard Bailyn, was mentioned in the book since Coates is a Williams graduate. Guess what? Speechwriter Quinn also is a Williams graduate, and he studied philosophy at the University of Oxford.

The White House also noted Coates had a previous business relationship with the two literary agents — Keith Urbahn and Matt THE WHITE HOUSE PICKED Latimer — who represented Anonymous.

THE WRONG SUSPECT Both happen to be former McConnell aides As I released my analysis in Februand have said Coates is not Anonymous. ary, the White House came up with the The problem is the White House missed conclusion, through a whisper campaign, the biggest clue: The inspiration for the that Anonymous is Victoria Coates. The op-ed and campaign book was was headed John McCain.

by White RealClearInvestigations McCain died House aide, 11 days before Peter Navarro, wrote a story about why the op-ed the same the White House thought appeared, and angry man Anonymous who likes to it was Coates. Here’s was upset wrongly slam what’s interesting: many with Trump’s Dr. Anthony mishandling Fauci. Coates of the same boxes that of tributes moved from to McCain. her position check off for Coates, McConnell as deputy and Chao were check off for Chao. national friends with security The White House believes Cindy and advisor to the McCain Department of Anonymous is female and John for years.

Energy.

What does started working early RealClearCoates think Investigations in the transition.

Chao of McCain? wrote a story of her about why the was an early Trump pick, Two former colWhite House leagues, in a nominated to her post thought it strong rebuttal was Coates. three weeks after the in the National Here’s what’s Review, interesting: election. described Many of the her as not a same boxes fan. Coates that check off tweeted that’s a “profound understatement.” for Coates, check off for Chao.

The White House missed other huge indiThe White House believes Anonymous cations, too. The meat of the book is about is female and started working early in the Congress, judicial appointments, tax reform, transition. Chao was an early Trump pick, government deregulation, infrastructure and nominated to her post three weeks after the winning elections — all areas of great conelection. The White House noted Coates and Anonymous share foreign policy goals. Both cern to Chao and McConnell. And although 84 people are mentioned in the book, McCosupported the Iraq War, are committed to nnell is not one of them. Let’s read between never letting Iran develop nuclear weapons the lines: Do you really think Coates would and believe in free trade. That is McConfail to mention McConnell? Or would that nell’s record, too.

Like Anonymous, Coates admires Ronald be Chao, protecting her husband?

Reagan and Mitt Romney. Ditto for Chao, who worked for Reagan as a White House fellow and campaigned for Romney in 2012. THE 33-WORD TEST Like Anonymous, Coates has quoted historiJOE BIDEN CAN’T PASS House.

When I pointed all of this out, Quinn made his Twitter site private; and then he reopened it like it was a bill before Congress.

He watered it down. Deleted the tweets.

Even amended his profile — gone was the Orwell quote. What’s that tell you? Guilty?

The reason McConnell and Anonymous use the same unusual vocabulary is because Quinn appears to be writing for both. Even when Quinn thinks he is being anonymous, his habits are hard to break and easy to spot.

In fact, I spotted 33 unusual words or phrases that are in both the book and McConnell’s Senate speeches. According to the Congressional Record, McConnell is often in the minority, one of the few Senators using many of them. Here they are: adults in the room, amoral, ash heap of history, atone, blasting, bull in a china shop, cold feet, condescending, crickets, cross the Rubicon, derided, doubled down, dusting off, echo chamber, galling, guardrail, half-baked, hand-wringing, hyperventilating, jarring, magic words, mocking, plowed, reverberate, rubble, sprawling, theatrics, Trump Derangement Syndrome, unbound, uncontroversial, unhinged, Washington-centric and wander.

I put Joe Biden to the test — did he ever say any of these words on the Senate floor?

After all, McConnell keeps pointing out Biden has been in Washington longer than he has. Turns out Biden said only three of the 33 words from 1995 to 2008 (note: 1995 is the first year the Congressional Record is online). Kamala Harris has uttered none of them.

Most telling, Biden did not use the words the same unusual ways McConnell and Anonymous have. Both McConnell and Anonymous used “rubble” in reference to destroying our Founding Fathers’ ideas; Biden used it in reference to an earthquake in Pakistan. McConnell and Anonymous used “wander” to stray from a political position; Biden used it to describe lobbyists wandering the halls of Congress. McConnell and Anonymous used “blasting” as verbal outbursts to criticize Democrats or Trump. Biden used it when commemorating DuPont’s 200th anniversary, noting how the company made blasting powder during World War I. You can hear an echo between McConnell and Anonymous as they lift ideas between speeches and the book. Take “crickets”: Both used it to draw contrasts on Capitol Hill. McConnell during the pandemic: “Over here in the United States Senate, the lights are on, the doors are open . . . and across the rotunda, in the House?

Crickets.” Anonymous: “On one side of the aisle, it sounds like nighttime on Capitol Hill. All you hear is the crickets.”

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but as a barrier to their view of wrong. And the beat goes on.

THE TWEET THAT SAYS IT ALL

In February, Quinn tweeted an op-ed that McConnell had published in The New York Times back in 2019 on filibusters. Quinn quoted just one sentence from it that had two unusual words: “half-baked” and “whims.”

I knew these were some of his favorite go-to words, so I searched the op-ed archives of the New York Times. Here’s what turned up: Only two op-eds in the history of the paper contain both words: McConnell’s 2019 op-ed and Anonymous’ 2018 op-ed. That’s an indelible, shared signature.

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The anti-Trump Anonymous author promised us last November: “Trump will hear from me, in my own name, before the 2020 election.”

That promise remains unkept.

Anonymous ducked as we witnessed an impeachment trial, pandemic, economic meltdown, Breonna Taylor’s tragic death and the social justice movement it is inspiring, the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the White House super spreader event where the President himself caught the virus and McConnell’s own refusal since August to go to the White House because he does not like how Trump won’t wear masks and won’t practice social distancing.

Why still the silence? Why hasn’t Anonymous stepped up to be the grand marshal as a parade of prominent Republicans publicly announced they won’t be backing Trump, which is what Anonymous called for in the book?

Tuesday’s election. That’s why.

The easiest way to derail McConnell’s own reelection for a seventh Senate term would be to publicly turn on Trump.

McConnell may no longer visit Trump.

In the debate with Amy McGrath, he did not even say Donald Trump’s name.

Anonymous’ unkept promise is just more proof that McConnell and Chao are behind this charade. They don’t have the fortitude to say: While we defended the president on the most important issues of our day, we also, anonymously, opposed him. • Ilene Zeldin has served as a speechwriter to Joe Biden, Fritz Hollings, Lloyd Bentsen, Lee Iacocca and Bill Daley. She holds a B.A. in journalism from The Ohio State University and an M.B.A. from the University of Dayton.

DEMOCRACY IN DANGER? WHAT WILL YOU DO IF TRUMP WINS?

By Danielle Grady | dgrady@leoweekly.com BETTY BAYÉ has been living in a constant vortex of anxiety since Donald Trump took the presidency in 2017.

She spoke to LEO from her sanctuary — the home in which she tempers her constant worry with re-runs of “In the Heat of the Night” and Natalie Cole albums. But even that hasn’t blocked out the horror she felt when asked how she’d react if Trump wins four more years.

“I’ve been around for many decades now, and this is the worst,” said Bayé, a 74-year-old longtime columnist and editorial writer for The Courier Journal. “I’ve never felt more just general stress. Just unable to just — you know, before you were able to not always be focused every day on what’s happening. But every day I wake up I’m thinking: What now? Are we at war? Who is the president cussing out? What scandal is there going to be?”

The cloud of chaos Trump has unleashed on the United States has been so all-consuming that Bayé doesn’t think that Joe Biden, Kamala Harris or even Superman will be able to undo the psychological damage he’s inflicted if they are elected.

But, she’s willing to try them out. Biden and Harris, at least.

LEO reached 11 voters with Kentucky ties, most of them left-leaning but not all, to talk about what they thought about the potential of facing more quality time with Trump as our president. Some talked to us over the phone, and some wrote their own response.

One theme that was repeated throughout several of the interviews was the idea that Trump has irreparably damaged the integrity of America’s democracy during his time in office. He has leaked poison into the minds of Americans that has turned neighbor against neighbor forever. Or, he has repeated claims of victimhood so often — “rigged

election,” “voter fraud” — that neither he nor his supporters will accept defeat without a fight. Or, he’s purposefully twisted the system to benefit him, most recently, by nominating a new Supreme Court justice in an election year who will tilt the court rightward.

Like Bayé, many also felt that no human, or alien from the planet Krypton after Trump can heal the rot that has taken hold of the country. But, the name “Biden” gives them a sliver of hope.

Not everyone we spoke with felt this way, of course.

Some think America is doing alright — that, like Mark Twain said, reports of her demise have been greatly exaggerated — even with Trump at the helm. Others don’t think Biden will help at all.

We invite you to explore their thoughts and their stories below.

STATE REP. NIMA KULKARNI

Nima Kulkarni.

When Donald Trump won the presidential election in 2016, Nima Kulkarni was shocked, as were many of us.

“How did this happen? How did we get here?” she asked herself.

But, if Trump wins again this November,

Kulkarni will not be surprised.

She will, however, be deeply disappointed, she said, that millions are still willing to keep Trump in office after seeing him in action for almost four years.

“I think over the past few years, since Trump has taken office, we have seen dedicated and committed efforts to erode all of the protections that our democracy affords us,” said Kulkarni, 41. “And that includes immigrants, that includes individuals that are below a certain income level, that includes individuals with regard to access to healthcare, workers’ rights, wage levels. On every level — environmental protections — you have seen a rolling back and an erosion of protection for our environment and our safety and our living quality.”

Kulkarni, an immigration attorney, was part of the Blue Wave that swept Democrats (many of them women) into state houses and the U.S. House in the midterm after Trump’s election. It was a repudiation of the president from voters and Kulkarni herself, who ran because she felt called to run because of adversaries such as Trump and then Gov. Matt Bevin.

She chose to fight then and she plans to continue to if Trump is reelected. And that possibility, she thinks, could give her work new focus. Kulkarni said she believes the political-scape post Trump might leave state legislators with the responsibility to protect reproductive rights and to tackle other issues such as environmental regulations, whether that be because of a new Supreme Court justice or further executive orders from Trump.

Electing Biden, though, would be its own recall on Trumpism and a meaningful one, said Kulkarni.

“Biden is not the first choice for a lot of people,” Kulkarni said. “And so I think at

Betty Bayé.

this point, it’s not about, ‘Is Joe Biden the perfect candidate?’ It’s about, ‘Are we going to ever have the opportunity to get back to a place of decency and sanity in our country?’

And I think the only way to do that is elect him president.”

LAMONT COLLINS, FOUNDER OF THE ROOTS 101 AFRICANAMERICAN MUSEUM

Lamont Collins remembers the conversations between his parents about what they might do if George Wallace won the presidency. Wallace was a zealous segregationist who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination three times in the 1960s (and once for the presidency as an independent).

Those discussions remind him of the same conversations that are happening now amongst Americans who are racial minorities.

“I think as people of color, we’re really concerned on how much America will go backwards,” said Collins, 61. “How much will it be allowed to go backwards with the Supreme Court, different decisions, gutting the Voter Rights Act.” Collins said he is worried about what else Trump might do with another four years.

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going to bring if Trump’s president for four more years and if the Supreme Court is as conservative as we know it,” said Collins.

“What does that mean for people of color?

What does that mean for women? What does that mean for immigration? What does that mean, period? We just don’t know.”

There might be some who decided to leave the country, but many Black people can’t afford to, Collins said (such is the situation America has created for them).

And there will be others who stay and fight.

That’s what Collins plans to do — politically and within his community.

“I would definitely be heartbroken, I’ll tell you that,” he said. “I definitely will feel a spirit broken, but at the same time, I would feel my right to fight more than ever.”

If Biden wins, Collins said, he will feel relieved. At least, the Democrat would bring dignity back to the office of the president, he said. And, Collins believes he will fold more people of color and women into his administration.

“At least if Biden got in, we know we’d be at the table,” he said. “With Trump, we’re not at the table, and we can’t be heard if we’re not at the table.”

TRES WATSON, FOUNDER OF CAPITOL REINS PR

Tres Watson said he doesn’t plan on “overreacting” one way or the other on Election Day. The 41-year-old is a GOP strategist and former spokesperson for the state Republican Party. He said he is “not always the biggest fan” of Trump’s actions, but he does know that the sitting president will keep more people in executive branch positions who share his beliefs than Biden would.

“At the end of the day, the executive branch is a weird office because the power extends so far beyond the one person,” Watson said.

And, a lot of the election’s ultimate impact hinges on whether Republicans maintain control of the Senate, he said.

“I think it’s certainly been proven that Sen. [Mitch] McConnell works well with the president,” said Watson. “But, I think you’ve seen in the past that Joe Biden is willing to work with and cut deals with Mitch McConnell as majority leader.”

Watson said he doesn’t believe it’s best for either party to have complete control over the federal government.

“So I would hope that voters in their wisdom would have some level of split government, so there’s someone in Washington to hold others accountable,” he said.

Ultimately, of more consequence to everyday people, Watson said, are local elec-

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tions for mayors and similar offices.

“I think that as much emphasis and attention we pay to Washington, people need to pay similar attention to local offices,” he said.

SHAMEKA PARRISH-WRIGHT, CO-CHAIR OF THE KENTUCKY ALLIANCE AGAINST RACIST AND POLITICAL REPRESSION

Shameka Parrish-Wright.

The letters appeared at the homes of two of Shameka Parrish-Wright’s employees at The Bail Project Louisville.

“I have a bad feeling you’re going to be hunted on Nov. 3 or possibly shortly thereafter,” they read. “My guess is you will get a bullet in the head.”

The letter also named Parrish-Wright, predicting she would be shot as well.

Trump being reelected would be a “nightmare,” said the 43-year-old, but even if Biden wins, Parrish-Wright is still plagued by a specter of violence — against her employees and others.

“My worry is that we do win the election, we do get him out and he won’t leave,” said Parrish-Wright. “He’ll act like some tyrant and find a way and use that Supreme Court to find a way to stay, that is my biggest fear.

What if we elect him out and then he still won’t go anywhere? He’s assumed so much power and enacted all these racist actions all over and told his people to stand by and watch. And to me that sounds like the makings of a civil war.”

But, Parrish-Wright said she’ll let federal officials deal with that. On the local level, she plans on continuing her quest for racial justice whether Trump is reelected or not.

“I’m still going to wake up — after I say my cuss words… after I pray for our country — and I’m going to go back out and get to work,” she said. “And I think that’s how many of the community folks and folks who’ve been fighting for social justice and social change, that’s how we feel. Our work will still continue.”

BRIANNA WRIGHT, 24, FORMER CAMPAIGN MANAGER FOR JECOREY ARTHUR

“America is a country of racism. It is not rooted in racism nor is its foundation racism. It IS racism. I would not be shocked or moved if Donald Trump was elected for a second term. He is bringing to light an ideology people somehow thought was nonexistent. At this point I would be shocked if he did not win this election.

Brianna Wright.

No matter which candidate is elected my work and focus is rooted in the betterment and uplift of Black Americans nationally and every Louisville resident locally. I am going to focus on making sure there is a Black American specific agenda for any prospective candidate especially locally in the upcoming elections. My goal is to educate Black American voters on the importance of voting and the true power their vote has individually as well as collectively.

“This may come as a surprise but I am far more concerned with the ramifications of a Biden presidency. Solely based on Biden’s 47 year history, he has had a hand in implementing policies that have further destroyed the Black American community. It is even worse if you consider what Kamala Harris did while in office. Biden may have a ‘Black agenda’ but history guarantees much more than promises. If Biden is elected I would still have the same focus and goals as I would if Trump was elected. I would be a little shocked if Biden won this election because there is not much excitement surrounding his campaign outside of not wanting Trump in office.”

SCOTT JENNINGS, 43, CO-FOUNDER RUNSWITCH PR AND GOP ADVISOR “I will react the same way as long as the reelection is free, fair, and competently operated. And that is, we had an election, the American people spoke, and we’ll have another one in two years. And then again in two years. And then again in two years. The greatness of America is in the durability of its institutions, no matter who wins or loses.”

LOUIS TORRES, CONTRACTOR FOR AAA

For Louis Torres, 63, it’s black and white — or red and blue, rather.

If Biden wins, he’ll be happy.

If Trump wins, he’ll be upset.

Although “upset” doesn’t quite describe the depths of emotion Torres anticipates — or the seriousness of what he believes the consequences will be.

“What I really believe will happen if Trump wins another four years is that Trumpism will be made into concrete,” Torres said. “I see four more years of

Scott Jennings.

democracy being corroded. I see four more years of the courts being corrupted. And I see four more years of him placing key cronies in key areas. And quite frankly, I’m scared to death for democracy right now.

On the flip side, Torres said he sees Biden as a good man with a good heart. But he won’t truly be made ecstatic by Biden’s win if it isn’t accompanied by Democratic majorities in the House and Senate.

If that happens, “I might run into the streets and run like a maniac,” said Torres.

“Because I love this country.”

KIRK KIEFER, 37, LOUISVILLE EXPAT LIVING IN JAPAN

“I will be completely unsurprised but still deeply disappointed if Trump is reelected. As far as taking any sort of action, beyond continuing to donate to worthy causes or politicians I support, I’m not sure what else I’d do. I don’t have any plans to move back to the US regardless of the election’s outcome.”

“I’ll feel relief and surprise that enough people voted for Biden if he Kirk Kiefer with his students in Japan. wins. I’d certainly have more faith that the U.S. could possibly get the COVID situation under some kind of control.”

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TIM LOVE, 62, RETIREE AND PLAINTIFF IN MARRIAGE EQUALITY CASE

“Trump winning is not an option. The dilemma is that even if Biden wins, the hard right media and social media will be left in place and will do to Joe Biden what they did to Obama.

They are allowed to make up lies all day long and put them out there. I realize that to a certain extent it’s always been that way in American politics, but now it’s gone to extremes and is driving an insurmountable Tim Love and Larry Ysunza-Love. | PHOTO BY KATHRYN HARRINGTON. wedge between the American people. We cannot agree to disagree on separating children from their parents at the border, stealing Supreme Court seats, alienating solid long-term allies, playing favorites with disaster aid when a state is perceived to not support you and not standing up to Putin when bounties are placed on our service men and women. I don’t believe many in the LGBT community are fooled

by Trump’s lip service to our civil rights while appointing hard right judges who will take them away or dilute them with religious exemptions.”

DUSTIN STAGGERS, FORMER LOUISVILLE RESTAURANT OWNER

Dustin Staggers, 38, happily peaced-out of the United States and moved to Mexico on a tourist visa partially because of Trump being elected in 2016.

Now, because of the coronavirus, Staggers is back in Tampa where he grew up.

The election might help decide whether he and his family stay in Florida or try to move to another country after the pandemic ends.

“If he wins again, I mean this is the thing… my concern wasn’t just the fact that we elected him, it was, there has to be 60 million plus people to do that. And if that continues, where is the direction of our country?” Staggers said. “And if the direction of our country is moving towards oligarchy, then why don’t I just move to a better place that there’s already an oligar-

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chy? Then at least I don’t have so much personal attachment to the political system.”

Staggers sees elections as a repudiation or an endorsement of a politician’s job.

So, if Trump gets reelected, he fears that “Trumpism” will continue unfettered. But, if he doesn’t, Staggers said his faith in democracy might be restored. Until, perhaps, Trump challenges the results of the election.

“I mean, [Al] Gore conceded because the Supreme Court said that Democrats ran out of time. He didn’t even concede because they said that he lost. He just conceded because he actually believes in the system of our country and said, ‘for the good of our country… I am going to concede so that we can move forward.’ And one of these assholes isn’t going to do that. And the worst part is, if [Trump] loses small he’s going to fight it, and if he loses big he’s going to fight it.” • LEOWEEKLY.COM // OCTOBER 28, 2020

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Redd - Looking for a best friend to love? Meet Redd! Redd is a six-month-old Domestic

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Upon arriving, Redd tested positive for Feline Leukemia or FeLV. While in other shelters Redd would be facing a grim fate because of his FeLV status, KHS believes he deserves a chance at a full life even if it is a shorter life! Because Redd is FeLV positive, he will need to be the only kitty in the home or go home with other FeLV kitties. Redd spent time in foster care where we were able to learn all about him! Redd loves napping in the sun, playing with catnip mice, playing in/with boxes, chattering with the birds from the window, sleeping and cuddling in bed with his humans. Redd also spent time with other FeLV kittens and loved hanging out with him. He got along with a small dog too! Could you be the one for Redd? If so, schedule an appointment to come meet him! Redd is neutered, micro-chipped and up-to-date on all vaccinations. Schedule an appointment to meet Redd at the Kentucky Humane Society’s East Campus, 1000 Lyndon Lane, by visiting kyhumane.org/cats.

Baby Girl - Want to know why Baby Girl is so special? Well,

she has been a true diamond in the rough! This seven-year-old American Pit Bull Terrier mix is full of charm, snuggles and joy!

She arrived at the Kentucky Humane Society after transferring from an overcrowded shelter. We could tell she had been through a lot before coming here; her bright eyes looked very sad and lost.

We decided to send Baby Girl into a foster home where she could recover away from the stress of the shelter. Since being in a foster home, Baby Girl now shows her true colors! You can tell how loyal, smart and sensitive she has been all along. Baby Girl currently lives with older children in her foster home and appears to be housetrained.

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Halloween Films, Play

(Oct. 28) ‘The Mystery of Irma Vep’ by The Chicken Coop Theatre Co. | thechickencooptheatre.com | $12.95 Michael Drury and Jack Wallen reprise their roles in this spoof of Gothic melodramas, with nods to BOO! “Dracula,”“The Wolfman,”“The Mummy,”“Jane Eyre” and “Rebecca.” It will be available streaming from Oct. 28-31.

(Oct. 30-31) Halloween Movie Nights In The Garden | Christy’s Garden in Paristown | 720 Brent Street | paristown.com | $15 a night | 6-11 p.m.

Come out to Paristown for “Hocus Pocus” on Friday night and “An American Werewolf In London” on Saturday night. These scary evenings also include music by DJ K-Dogg, costume contests and live fire and aerialist performances. —LEO

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All Hallows’ Eve Doings!

(Oct. 30) THE CRAFT AT NORAEBAR 717 E. Market St. | Search Facebook No cover | 6-9 p.m.

Get ready for an adult-only, witchy evening with local mystics, healers and creators set BASH! up in NoraeBar’s private rooms “each bringing their own set of intuitive services and witchy products.” Costumes are encouraged as are donations for Clothe The West for a 10% friends and family discount on THE CRAFT cocktail menu.

Pumpkin bashing at Cornucopia Farms.

(Oct. 30-31) All Hallows’ Eve Benefit Ball | Various locations | Search Facebook $20+ | 9 p.m.

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Take your pick: An evening of drag, burlesque and sideshow performances for a good cause on Friday or Saturday. The first party is at Zanzabar, and the second is at The Limbo.

Both are fundraisers for Feed Louisville to help the homeless community. Bring donations of blankets, tarps, tents, Sterno heaters, sleeping bags and winter layers. Wear a costume!

(Oct. 31) Halloween Hunt! | Kentuckiana Music Center | 134 E. Elm St., New Albany, Indiana | Search Facebook | No cover | 2-4 p.m.

This musical scavenger hunt includes trick-or-treating with street musicians at local businesses. If you complete the scavenger hunt, you’ll be entered into a giveaway!

(Oct. 31) Pumpkin Bash | Cornucopia Farm | 5444 N. Rutherford Hollow Road, Scottsburg, Indiana | cornucopiafarm.com | $11 | 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.

Take a beautiful fall drive and then smash pumpkins! The price of admission includes corn and soybean mazes, a petting farm, slides, a straw house, putt around the pumpkin and more. —LEO

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SATURDAY, OCT. 31

The Black Harvest

Encore on 4th | 630 South Fourth St. | Search Facebook | $10-$20 | 3-7 p.m.

Rockstar entrepreneur Tawana Bain kicks off this inaugural event with a panel on tech and innovation, followed by a lot of fun and entertainment. Lipstick Wars’ CULTURAL three finalists will rejoin to share their powerful messages, and compete for champion of the 2020 “Say Her Name” slam. There will also be “Black Broadway” tribute performances from “The Wiz” and “Dreamgirls,” along with DJ interludes and more. “[This] showcase will allow attendees, potential sponsors, and vendors to identify cultural-forward events they want to support and/or attend in the future while enjoying musical theatre performances, films, spoken word, visual arts, technology, and more!” For a full schedule of events, click through to “Find Tickets” on the Facebook event page. Tickets are $10 to attend virtually, $20 to attend in person (outdoors on rooftop and two levels of the Encore on 4th parking garage). —Aaron Yarmuth

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Breonna’s Roots Protest Homecoming Harvest Festival 2020

Jefferson Square Park | 301 S. Sixth St. | Search Facebook | Free | Noon-7 p.m.

If this fall festival hosted by White Radicals COMMUNITY Against Thoughtless Hate sounds familiar, it is because it has been rescheduled to Saturday. But you can still expect a chicken dumpling and apple dumpling cook-off, kids activities, games and free food. Owing to its activist intent, the festival’s parade will also be a march with wagon floats, and demanding justice for Breonna Taylor will still be at the center of it all. The event will benefit Feed the West, as well, which is bringing free groceries to The West End. —LEO

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THURSDAY, OCT. 29

THROUGH NOV. 28

Blackacre State Nature Preserve And Historic Homestead 3200 Tucker Station Road | Search Facebook | $15 ($10 for members ) | 7:30 p.m.

PYRO Gallery | 1006 E. Washington St. | pyrogallery.com | Free

Night Hike

The last time a full Blue Moon glowed over the entire U.S. on Halloween was 1944. Of course, it is happening again because... 2020. Well, you ONCE IN A BLUE MOON may have plans for Halloween night when this Blue Moon illuminates the sky, but you can get most of the full-moon experience on a night hike a couple of nights prior in this J-town nature preserve. You will also be treated to stories of “historical and spooky superstitions in wildlife,” on this organizer-guided hike. Fall refreshments will be served after the hike. To register, call the office at 266-9802.

—Aaron Yarmuth

‘Exploring Organic Form’ By John McCarthy Nature meeting clay, as introduced by ceramicist John McCarthy, results in botany a bit amok. His abstract organic forms feature close-up details that add intriguINSPIRED ing texture. McCarthy describes his hand-built sculpture as “highly manipulated” and “inspired by nature” (inspired being the key word). That they are, consummating in art that is fancifully alive. —Jo Anne Triplett

This Blue Moon was shot by Mark Roy from Thursday Island, Torres Strait, Australia, on March 17, 2006.

THROUGH NOV. 6

‘TOKYO Before/A�ter’

Schneider Hall Galleries | Schneider Hall, UofL 104 Schneider Hall | art.louisville.edu | Free In anticipation of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo (now pushed back OHAYOU GOZAIMASU to 2021), The Japan Foundation organized a photography exhibition celebrating the country. The agency, whose mission is “promoting international understanding through cultural exchange,” curated 81 images from the 1930s40s juxtaposed with photos taken after 2010. The show has traveled to Canada, Mexico and Brazil and is now in Louisville. The “before” group of the 1930s-40s are by KOGA (Light Pictures), NIPPON and Kineo Kuwabara.

The “after” images were shot by Nobuyoshi Araki, Mika Ninagawa, Motoyuki Daifu, SATO Shintaro, Shinya Arimoto, Natsumi Hayashi, Kenta Cobayashi and Daido Moriyama.—Jo Anne Triplett

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‘Frosted Fern’ by John McCarthy. Clay and glazes on base.

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MUSIC

7 RECENTLY-RELEASED SONGS FROM LOCAL ARTISTS

NEW MUSIC FROM CARLY JOHNSON, DOM B AND MORE LOCAL MUSICIANS

By Scott Recker | srecker@leoweekly.com THERE ARE A LOT of different emotions floating around this playlist of local songs, which have all been released in the last month or so. Probably because we live in a time that evokes a fair share of various feelings. In the following songs there’s optimism and despair, love and worry, one song that has a not-a-care-in-the-world vibe, another that runs on crushing doom. As always, we’re looking at a variety of genres, because this scene is packed with diverse talent. Give the following songs a spin.

‘FOR YOU’ — CARLY JOHNSON FT. BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY Two of Louisville’s most notable singers teamed up for this duet, a song about finding love through patience. The slow-moving piece of lounge jazz is an easy listener that holds heavier topics, thematically focusing on earning happiness the hard way, through sticking by people through the tough times. In the chorus, there’s that passion and spark that define so many love songs, but the verses are filled with nuanced scenes from a complicated relationship. It has the heart of a pop song and the depth of a folk song, neatly pressed into something vivid and catchy.

‘CITY ON FIRE’ — DOM B Dom B’s “City on Fire” was inspired by the bravery of the protests — people speaking out for what they believe in for such a long time, staying focused and zoned in on finding a better, more just system. It’s a statement on a broken city government, one that’s contributed to social injustice. But Dom himself said it best about “City On Fire” for a previous article: “You may say the ‘city is on fire,’ it’s going to crap, it’s a negative thing, but no, the city is on fire because our hearts are coming together for Breonna, and anybody who’s had injustice, because this is happening currently across the nation. Yeah, the city is on fire. They’re fired up. They’re angry. They’re aware.”

‘SUI GENERIS’ — ALL GLASS Sui generis roughly translates to mean unique, and the band All Glass certainly fits that description, carrying a layered and angular post-rock sound. And that is on full display on the song “Sui Generis,” a haunting and spectacularly built track that combines the dramatic range of singer-songwriter Zack Stefanksi with indie veterans — drumming from Guy Kelly and the guitars and synths of Syd Bishop (who is also a LEO contributor). The end result is a rich, texture-driven experimentation that turns experience and multiple personalities into something singular.

‘YOU AND ME’ — OTIS JUNIOR AND DR. DUNDIFF FT. J.LAMOTTA A few years back, the velvet-voiced singer Otis Junior and the idiosyncratic producer Dr. Dundiff teamed up, forming a R&B duo that put a modern spin on classic sounds.

And it put them on the national radar. Now they’re back with “You And Me,” and they’re continuing to evolve. Featur-

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Wombo. | PHOTO BY NIK VECHERY.

ing quick, hip-hop-inspired drums and breezy flourishes from other instruments, with the euphoric vocals from Otis and guest singer J.Lamotta, the song sees them all in top form.

There aren’t many singers out there who can go toe-to-toe with Otis, but Lamotta can. They have powerful individual moments. They perfectly harmonize. And they broke the code to getting the most out of everyone’s talent, all three of them being equally as important to the track.

‘SITUATIONS’ — WOMBO On “Situations,” the experimental and psychedelic trio Wombo turns simplicity into pure creative prowess.

The lyrics are straightforward, with singer/bassist Sydney Chadwick delivering a predictably solid vocal performance and a bass line that burns into your brain, while guitarist Cameron Lowe fills in the lines with splashes of post-punk and drummer Joel Taylor is the glue that holds it all together.

At just under two minutes, it’s a winding, quick-hitting song that does a lot with very little time. Wombo mixes eccentric qualities with a pop backbone, which makes them sound unlike anything else and hard to categorize, while still making accessible music that never goes too far over the edge of strange.

‘THE HOLY FIRE’ — WAX FANG Wax Fang has always been at their best when they create something vast and sweeping, emotional roller coasters anchored by singer Scott Carney’s bold and sharp vocals.

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On “The Holy Fire,” Wax Fang is joined by members of the Louisville Orchestra, and the strings up the stakes on a sharp, robust song that calls for change and holds hope but is clear that we’re standing in a moment that is a catalyst. The song repeats that “love always wins,” but it also expresses the urgency to cut a path toward progress before we get swallowed by our sins.

‘SLIPPERY SLOPE’ — DE4THRACE DE4THRACE’s “Slippery Slope” is an instrumental track that seems to comment on an ominous present and a potentially bleak future. The new project from Mark Palgy (VHS or Beta, Jake Shears, Eye Contakt) builds dark and twisted psychedelic soundscapes, and, with “Slippery Slope,” the drums march to a harrowing beat as ambient sounds scream in the background. It carries the tone of an existential horror film, the kind where there are no supernatural monsters, because us humans have the whole being evil thing covered just fine. •

FOOD & DRINK

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BIG MOMMA’S SOUL FOOD KITCHEN A STANDOUT

You may have to line up, carefully spaced outside Big Momma’s door if the maximum five customers are already inside.

By Robin Garr | LouisvilleHotBytes.com Big Momma’s fried chicken at Big Momma’s was outstanding, crisply breaded, juicy, and lightly spiced with cayenne. It’s shown here with delicious green beans and a chunk of cornbread. | PHOTOS BY ROBIN GARR.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, boys and girls, we interrupt our dining review for this publicservice announcement: Have you voted yet?

Good! Wait, you over there! You haven’t voted? Please vote on Election Day, Nov. 3, or vote early in person at one of Louisville’s convenient early polls. But vote! Vote as if your life depends on it, because just possibly it does.

There! I’m glad to get that off my chest.

We voted last week. It was easy. It really felt good. And best of all, it led us toward this week’s exceptionally tasty food report.

Here’s how it went down: We voted early at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage and then decided to grab a delicious soul-food meal from a Black-owned West End restaurant.

It was a great idea. But where to go?

There’s a ton of small eateries west of Ninth Street, but one spot stood out: Big Momma’s Soul Food Kitchen on West Broadway near Shawnee Park.

We got there at noon, opening time and found nine people already lined up in front of us, all masked and carefully keeping their 6-foot distance. Only five people are allowed inside at once during the pandemic, and there’s no dining in, so the line outside builds up fast.

We got in soon enough, though, and took our place, keeping our distance, as we examined the big wall menu and the day’s food

specials safely behind glass. You step up and yell your order into the mic when your turn is called, then wait to be called up to the window to pay and grab your meal.

There’s a separate menu for each day Big Momma’s is open — noon to 7 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday — with choice of 10 or 11 dishes every day but Sunday, which boasts a celebratory 15. It’s a meat-and-two operation, offering your choice of one meat with any two sides. Prices aren’t shown, but most meat-and-two combinations are $10.

Many of the items are available every day. You can’t miss if you’re in the market for fried or baked chicken, meatloaf or the basic side dishes mac and cheese, green beans, mashed potatoes, beans and cabbage. They’re all available every day.

Tender, soft, and plenty of it, sauced with a vinegary barbecue-style tomato sauce: That’s Big Momma’s meatloaf. We took mashed potatoes and cabbage on the side.

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Take your time studying the big wall menu at Big Momma’s Soul Food Kitchen: Some dishes aren’t available every day.

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After that it gets a little more complicated. Want smothered pork chops? Come Wednesday, Thursday or Sunday. Croquettes? Show up Wednesday, Friday or Sunday. Fried catfish fillet? Come Friday or Sunday. Rib tips and sauerkraut? That’s a Wednesday-only treat. Okra and lima beans are your Thursday jam, and you can have fried potatoes and onions as long as you request them on a Friday. Sweet potatoes are a Friday or Sunday specialty, and barbecued ribs and greens are a Sunday delight.

You’ll have to trust this popular eatery’s reputation for quality, though. A red-onwhite sign makes Big Momma’s policy perfectly clear: “We Do Not Give Out Free Samples.”

I fumbled through the menu, got mildly chided once for asking a question that was printed right in front of me, but got our order quickly and left with a couple of delicious $10 meat-and-two lunches.

Fried chicken may have scored as the best among a bunch of competitive dishes.

We chose a breast-and-wing quarter and got an exceptionally large one. Its flour-based breading was sprinkled with cayenne that was somewhat irregularly applied: Enough to kick it up in some bites, only a hint in others, but all good. The coating adhered tightly to the meat, building an almost glassy shattering shield that remained crisp and crunchy even a half-hour ride home in a white, plastic foam food box. The meat was moist and luscious, well done but not the least bit dry or tasteless, so good you kept wanting to come back for more. Even the sizable chunk of wing meat was tender and juicy and crisply breaded.

A serving of meatloaf was huge, too, including two big, soft and rather sweet

pieces of finely ground beef about an inch thick, with plenty of brownish-red juices running out. The top of the meatloaf had been coated with a vinegary tomato-based sauce reminiscent of barbecue sauce.

There wasn’t a losing entry among the sides, but the mashed potatoes and the green beans were best of all. The potatoes were deliciously creamy, topped with a sprinkle of paprika and run quickly under the broiler.

They were silken smooth and pure essence of potato.

The green beans were simple but just right: flat roma beans, short bits long cooked with onion until they were meltingly soft with a wonderful green bean flavor.

The mac and cheese was extra creamy, too. A mild but tasty and just barely sweet yellow cheese sauce coated tender soft macaroni noodles.

Cabbage was rough-chopped into a mix of large and small pieces, long simmered with a few smoked pork shreds to impart a smoky flavor.

Squares of bright yellow cornbread came with each plate. Their soft but textured nottoo-sweet flavor was a welcome addition.

Lunch for two and plenty of it, came to an even $20, plus five bucks for the tip jar. •

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT | BOOKS

‘HILLBILLY HUSTLE’ FORGES NEW APPALACHIAN TERRITORY

By T.E. Lyons | leo@leoweekly.com

@leoweekly

“Hillbilly Hustle” by Wesley Browne (West Virginia University Press; 264 pages, $19.99) THE STORY OF SEMI-LOVABLE losers who are stuck in Appalachia? The kind who seem like they might get out and achieve their dreams, but then some family member gets hooked on hard drugs or the sole remaining local factory announces layoffs and all anyone can see in their future is deepening debt or maybe a medical crisis?

You can find bookstore shelves full to bursting with variations on that tale — many of them good and some great. But in this debut novel, the author’s not in the least concerned with perfecting the well-trod plot. Instead, his goals are freshness and real-world specificity, and they’re achieved.

Don’t fret at what might be missing, though — there’ll still be worries over debts and some blood gets spilled.

Instead of a generic “holler” or a bankrupt coal town near Hazard, this Kentucky tale takes place in a realistically drawn Richmond, with occasional drifting into Jackson County (and a side-trip to Belterra). The initial two chapters are saturated with the details of a late-night downtown poker game, as narrated by the semi-nerdy forty-something owner of a pizza parlor. He walks into the smoke-filled room afraid he might lose his stake, which he needs to pay his parents’ bills. And once our main man is ahead, he’s afraid he’s made too big a splash and is ripe for mugging. As it turns out, either of those outcomes might be preferable to the Rube Goldberg-esque cascade of consequences that follows.

Author Wesley Browne takes chances, much like the protagonist. It’s a challenge to establish pace, atmosphere and several characters with an introduction that’s so mundane but also demands specialized vocabulary (and, to top it off, concerns a game based around concealment). Later on, there’ll be the successful use of a daring writerly device — shifting the point of view away to secondary characters without the slightest disruption in narrative flow. And there are numerous scenes that take a setting of down-home slight-dreariness and then bring on dramatic turns dressed up with

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snarky dark humor.

Life shouldn’t be so tough for the hardworking and for those who give more than lip service to principles like loyalty. But in the spotty, marginal economy that Browne shows us, fates are determined mostly on how the breaks fall. One of his characters has artistic talent and can’t help but grow impatient enough to start packing her bags.

Another character who’s impatient has clear entrepreneurial skills — oh, but he’s the villain here, with a folksy rapaciousness that readily turns seedy and even dangerous.

And when a chapter begins “Route 421 in Jackson County had more twists in it than six months of pro wrestling,” you know someone will soon be losing traction — and maybe a lot more.

The pizza parlor doles out high-quality eats as its profits grow slimmer and the owner ruminates over the what-might-havebeen from a long-gone offer to turn the place into a craft microbrewery. Even the money that comes in as he shifts over from pot smoker to behind-the-counter dealer isn’t enough to keep the wolves from his door.

The author — who knows a thing or two about Madison County pizza — threads his narrative carefully, but the reading isn’t weighted down with extra cheese. Browne knows his way around a particular specialty among crime novels: written with a light touch and with a setting that amounts to a primary character. But this isn’t outright comedic caper, so we’re not in Hiaasen territory. Browne’s success with his fresh approach will stay with you. •

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1 ‘‘____ ready for this?’’ (opening of a pump-up jam by 2 Unlimited) 2 Part of an Italian veal dish name 3 Go back to Square 1 4 Share a workspace, in modern lingo 5 Helpful connections 6 Breakfast order 7 Long period 8 What a weather balloon might be mistaken for 9 Letters on the ‘‘3’’ button 10 Catches a glimpse of 11 What Mrs. Potts and Chip serve in ‘‘Beauty and the Beast’’ 12 Brit’s term of affection 13 ‘‘Finally!’’

14 Resolve, with ‘‘out’’ 15 Precious, to a Brit 17 Goes undercover?

18 Heated accusation 19 Sound effect during a bomb defusing, perhaps 20 ‘‘I watched that episode already’’ 26 Critical time 28 Queen who made Carthage prosper 31 Pittsburgh-to-Buffalo dir.

32 Fair forecast 33 Beat in a boxing match, in a way 34 Corral 35 Command for a right turn, in mushing 36 ‘‘It’s possible’’ 37 ‘‘You’ve Got Mail’’ director Ephron 40 Neutral paint color 41 Sound like a broken record 46 Shoe with holes 47 Top dogs 48 Subject of Rick Steves’s travel guides 49 God, in Guadalajara 52 Bullet alternatives: Abbr.

53 Utter 54 Como ningún ____ (unique, in Spanish) 56 Pledge-drive gift

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Dinosaur in the Mario games Titular film character opposite Harold Something offered in tribute ____ Martin DB5 (‘‘Bondmobile’’) Knock-down-drag-out fights Nudge Barack, Michelle, Hillary and Bill took them, for short 23 Yann Martel’s baking memoir?

24 Have heart eyes for 25 Member of Britain’s upper house 26 Tone-____ 27 Shunned, with ‘‘out’’ 29 ‘‘Don’t get ____!’’

30 F. Scott Fitzgerald’s chivalric tale?

36 Just like that 38 Zaps, as leftovers 39 Brainstorms 42 Messes (with) 43 Follower of ‘‘Je m’appelle’’ 44 What a figure skate has that a hockey skate lacks 45 ‘‘____ you seeing this?’’

46 Voltaire’s sweet novel?

50 Scan that excites hydrogen atoms, for short 51 Can’t keep one’s mouth shut?

54 Alternative to de Gaulle 55 Debussy’s ‘‘____ d’Étoiles’’ 57 Prepare to go next 59 ‘‘You’re making me blush!’’

61 Lived (with) 63 Marcel Proust’s kitchen mystery?

70 Trouble 71 I 72 ‘‘That’s ____!’’ (director’s cry) 73 Halloween vis-à-vis Nov. 1 74 ‘‘Yeesh!’’

76 One of six parked on the moon 78 Nasty, in a way 79 Author Ferrante 81 Neutral paint color 82 Break 85 Societal problem 86 ‘‘When They See Us’’ director DuVernay 89 Big e-commerce site 90 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s pet story?

95 Guarantees 97 [Doh!] 100 Semibiographical source for ‘‘Citizen Kane’’ 101 Small trunks 105 Certain red wine

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BY MIRIAM ESTRIN / EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ

107 Trap 109 Had a friendly relationship (with) 110 ‘‘____ is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it’’: Einstein 111 ‘‘Revenge ____ dish …’’

112 William Shakespeare’s historical romance?

115 Gives one’s seal of approval 116 Woman’s name that’s a piece of furniture backward 117 Classical singing venue 118 Beat 119 Call to reserve?

120 The final installment of ‘‘The Godfather’’ 121 Bit of coffee 122 Sierra Nevadas, e.g.

123 Word that can precede or follow ‘‘run’’

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SAVAGE LOVE

By Dan Savage | mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage

JEALOUS TYPOLOGIES

Q: I’ve been in a relationship with a wonderful guy for the past year. The only problem is that he works with a girl he used to fuck. It wasn’t just sex — they would go on dates and even went on vacation together. He kept this little “detail” to himself for six full months before giving himself away by mistake.

He then apologized, said he hadn’t told me so that I wouldn’t worry for no reason and that he no longer has any feelings for her whatsoever. Disclaimer: I’m an extremely jealous person with huge trust issues, so knowing he kept all this from me is devastating.

I no longer trust him. Just thinking that he’s seeing — on a daily basis — a woman he used to sleep with is driving me nuts! I repeatedly asked him to let me meet her in person, at the very least, but it didn’t happen. So, one night, after giving him a heads-up, I showed up at their workplace. He had said it would be OK for me to stop by sometime, but once I got there, he freaked out. He accused me of not trusting him! My question: Am I being crazy and overreacting — I’ll admit I’ve been agonizing nonstop about this — or is he acting like an asshole with something to hide? I’ve been struggling to curb my anxiety about this, and I’ve even had a few panic attacks he’s not aware of. Him changing jobs is out of the question. ~ I’m Terrifi ed About Losing It And Nuking Everything A: How long were you dating this guy before you outed yourself as an extremely jealous person (EJP)?

I’m guessing at least a few weeks, ITALIANE, if not a few months. Because as you’re no doubt aware — as all EJPs are aware — it’s not a desirable trait, which is why very few EJPs disclose on the first date. (“I grew up in Milan, I have two sisters, and I’m the type of person who’ll show at your workplace and cause a huge scene if I think you might be fucking someone else or have ever fucked someone else.”) If you’re anything like EJPs I’ve dated and dumped, you didn’t show your boyfriend this side of yourself until long after he’d developed feelings for you, making it harder — harder by design — for him to end things.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess he found out his new girlfriend is an EJP before you found out your boyfriend works with a woman he used to fuck.

At some point before the six-month mark, ITALIANE, you blew up at him about a waitress or someone he follows on Instagram. And at that moment he realized he couldn’t tell you he works with a woman he used to fuck. Because now he feared — because now he knew — you would lose your EJP shit over it because he’d seen you lose your EJP shit over far less.

The only thing more exhausting than being with an EJP is dealing with an EJP who resents you for hiding something from them — something like working with an ex — that would set them off for days or months. I get it, I get it: he kept this from you. But if the last six months (!) are proof of anything, ITALIANE, they’re proof your boyfriend was right to keep this from you.

Since changing jobs wasn’t an option, and since he can’t jump in a time machine and go un-fuck this woman, what other option did he have? Given a choice between telling you and spending the next six months dealing with your bullshit or keeping his mouth shut and hoping you never found out, he quite understandably chose the path of least bullshit.

If you can’t see how your own behavior may have contributed to his omission — and if you can’t forgive him and you can’t take, “No, I’m not fucking her now,” for an answer and you refuse to see this as your problem, not his — then do your boyfriend a favor and dump him. If you don’t and if you keep this shit up, if you keep saying you can’t trust him one minute and then complaining about him accusing you of not trusting him the next (?),be prepared to have your ass dumped. Because there’s only so long a person, guilty of wrongdoing or not, will put up with an EJP’s bullshit.

And finally: Your boyfriend was under no obligation to disclose the current location of every girl he’d ever fucked at the start of your relationship, ITALIANE, or at any other point, for that matter. While some people can be open with their partners about their pasts and their partners can be open with them, it’s not compulsory. And if someone wants to try and make it work with an EJP, it’s not a good idea. I don’t know why anyone would want to make it work with an EJP, ITALIANE, but there are people out there who do.

Your boyfriend might be one of them. But don’t push your luck.

Q: I’ve been with my partner for a year and a half and have been long distance from the start, and she’s working toward moving closer to me in a more permanent way. But I’m worried about the sex as I feel a lack of desire for her. I believe it could be my newfound awareness of “patriarchal gaze,” which I wasn’t conscious of before meeting her. I used to enjoy kink but I no longer consider it sexy. I used to have a lot of sex with my ex-boyfriends and used to feel some confl ict but power games were a turn-on. Loving care has replaced dirty games, and I feel wrong for now if I try to watch porn and I no longer enjoy touching myself because I cannot get off without thinking in sexist ways. I’m feeling pretty confused. Although I love my partner in a very special and deep way, it’s quite confusing. Please advise on how to feel sexy again without being destructive. ~ Still Horny Deep Down Somewhere A: There’s nothing wrong with objectifying someone who wants to be objectified by you, and there’s nothing wrong with being objectified by someone you want to be objectified by. (That’s what you mean by the “patriarchal gaze,” right?) In addition to being threedimensional human beings with wants, needs, agency, and autonomy, we are also physical objects, SHDDS, and sometimes we want to be appreciated for the objects we are. (Or the objects we also are.) So long as

the person you’re objectifying — so long as the person on the receiving end of your gaze — enjoys receiving that kind of attention from you and vice-versa, there’s nothing wrong with it. To gaze at someone who desires your gaze, to touch them and play dirty games with them, isn’t inherently sexist or dehumanizing — so long as it’s consensual and mutually pleasurable, which I realize it all too often isn’t, particularly for women.

But we shouldn’t let assholes (mostly men) who can make people (mostly women) feel unsafe or uncomfortable with a look ruin what isn’t just enjoyable when consensual, but affirming and at times transcendently pleasurable.

To be perfectly frank, SHDDS, I’m concerned about your relationship. If you feel so awful about your sexual desires and sexual history that you’re incapable of enjoying sex anymore — if you can’t even masturbate anymore — and those awful feelings entered your life at roughly the same time your partner did… maybe your partner is part of the problem. If you were evolving in a different direction with her sexually, if you were moving away from power games—which can be very loving—and toward something else, I wouldn’t see a problem. But you aren’t opening up to something new in this relationship, SHDDS, you’re shutting down. Even if your partner hasn’t said or done anything to make you feel ashamed of your sexual desires or history, SHDDS, I’m not sure she’s right for you. And I don’t think it would be right of you to let someone you don’t desire move across the country to be with you.

But whether you decide to stay in this relationship or not, you would benefit from speaking with a sexpositive/kink-positive therapist about your conflicted feelings.

mail@savagelove.com Follow Dan on Twitter @FakeDanSavage On the Lovecast, Emily Bazelon from Slate’s Political Gabfest. savagelovecast.com

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PUBLIC NOTICE: Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to build a 47-foot pole Communications Tower. Anticipated lighting application is medium intensity dual red/white strobes. The Site location is 2501 Emil Avenue, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY 40217, Lat: [38-12-31.00] and Long: [85-44-59.81]. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Antenna Structure Registration (ASR, Form 854) filing number is A1175516. ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS – Interested persons may

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PUBLIC NOTICE: Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to build a 39-foot utility pole Communications Tower. Anticipated lighting application is medium intensity dual red/white strobes. The Site location is 1259 Morgan Avenue, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY 40213, Lat: [38-11-40.0704], Long: [-85-43-33.0924]. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Antenna Structure Registration (ASR, Form 854) filing number is [ASR# A1176345]. ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS – Interested persons may review the application (www.fcc.gov/asr/applications) by entering the filing number. Environmental concerns may be raised by filing a Request for Environmental Review (www.fcc.gov/asr/environmentalrequest) and online filings are strongly encouraged. The mailing address to file a paper copy is: FCC Requests for Environmental Review, Attn: Ramon Williams, 445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20554. HISTORIC PROPERTIES EFFECTS – Public comments regarding potential effects on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Edward Reynolds, e.reynolds@trileaf.com, [1515 Des Peres Rd, Suite 200, St. Louis, MO 63131, 314-997-6111].

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