Kentucky State Sovereignty - Update

By Chris Southworth

Today (March 19, 2010) roughly 50 Citizens of the Commonwealth of Kentucky showed up at the Capitol to show support for HCR 10, one of Kentucky's Sovereignty Resolutions. The plan was to have a discharge petition that required 27 signatures to bring it out of committee, this should have been an easily attainable goal as there are 25 sponsors on the bill. The primary sponsor, Rep. Stan Lee, out of Lexington gave a passionate speech on behalf of the legislation and called for it to move forward. However, there was an objection to this request as one legislator cited that per the rules it had to be a bill and not a resolution. After a mini-conference that was "approach the bench" style with Stan Lee, the legislator that objected, and what looked like leadership it was ruled that only Joint Resolutions and Bills, not Concurrent Resolutions can be discharged per the rules. This was a most disappointing set back for the Liberty Movement in Kentucky and it's Citizens. However, the 10th Amendment is not dead yet as Rep Lee realized after the fact that per the Kentucky Constitution in section 89 it states that a Concurrent Resolution has the same footing as a Bill, therefore Rep. Lee will give the discharge petition another try on Monday with this revelation. We have no idea how the vote will go, there should at least be 27 signatures available and those that do not vote in favor of this are essentially voting against the Commonwealth of Kentucky and it's Citizens. We will mark this vote down and remember come November, so everyone needs to contact their Representative and try and get them on board.