Bevin rips Fischer for loud protest at McConnell's house, but was the noise illegal?
Gov. Matt Bevin took his beef with Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer from the internet to the airwaves Wednesday, saying a protest Monday night was likely unlawfully loud and "we need better leadership" in Louisville.
"Greg Fischer, I’ll be honest – the people of Louisville deserve better," Bevin said on the Leland Conway Show on WHAS radio. "They really do. I’ve known Greg a long time, this isn’t about him personally. But he frankly has lost control of the city of Louisville in ways that matter, and it’s not reflecting well."
Bevin's comments came around 36 hours after a protest outside Sen. Mitch McConnell's Louisville home that started late Monday evening and lasted until around midnight.
A video of one protester at the event saying someone should stab a McConnell voodoo doll and that the senator should have broken his neck when he fell and fractured his shoulder over the weekend went viral. The demonstrators, who rallied against McConnell in the aftermath of two major weekend shootings over his failure to bring gun reform legislation to the Senate floor, also chanted and made other loud noises throughout the event in the Highlands-area neighborhood.
Read more: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2019/08/07/matt-bevin-greg-fischer-noisy-mitch-mcconnell-gun-protest/1941815001/
(Louisville Courier Journal)