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As far as the roads in Johnson County, come out here to Oil Springs and Flat Gap, they are as bad as they ever were.

I worked with the KYTC under the Johnson Co. Construction Department during the summer a couple of years ago as well as the District 12 survey crew stationed in Allen. The state takes care of their roads fairly well, they are not responsible for the county roads. I travel to Flat Gap quite a bit when I go home and they have done some rehab work on those roads. Sure not every place gets new surface put down and that is not up to Fletcher to determine it. They give a grant for so much money to purchase the surface, give a location, and then it is up to the KYTC's county construction workers to determine where to put the amount that they were allowed to purchase. That is why you see some places on a road have it, then there will be a break and other places down the road will have fresh blacktop. Tucker Daniel said he is working on getting all the county roads in various hollars of Johnson Co. black topped. During my time there, Van Lear's Kentucky owned roads got quite a bit. Out on 581 starting at the Lawrence/Johnson line it was paved all the way out and several other locations got fresh pads to drive on. Compared to the amount of work on the Kentucky owned roads before he got in there in our county and surrounding counties, it was a great improvement. One funny thing I saw on the Louisville news last night, they asked a republican woman why she voted for Beshear and she said because Fletcher was for casinos and she's totally against that. I guess she didn't watched enough tv to see all the campaign ads about no casinos in Kentucky.