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I'm not sure where or how to start with this. I guess geographically is about as good a way as any.
Bullitt County borders Jefferson to the south. It's notable, from my POV, mostly for being home to a number of bourbon distilleries and the Bernheim Forest, for Pet Shop Comics being there and #1C living there for a few years, and for being the site of a hell of a lot of personal misery in summer 2014. In November 2016, the voters of Bullitt County, by a narrow margin, elected a man named Dan Johnson to the Kentucky House of Representatives for the 49th District.
Johnson ... well, this fucking guy. He made a lot of interesting claims - that he operated a morgue at the WTC site, he was the White House chaplain to three administrations, even cured disease and resurrected a dead woman. He was pretty awfully racist, too.
Johnson ran a church on Bardstown Road, over around Fern Creek - the Heart of Fire church. He called himself the Bishop of Bullitt County and the Pope of Kentucky. He had something called a "Gun Choir" at his church - check 'em out singing here. Johnson's the guy in the middle of the back row wearing a cap with "Pope" embroidered on it and holding a goddamn AK-47.
The Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting ran a lengthy investigation on Johnson, The Pope's Long Con. The audio segments of the report began running on Monday the 18th; the entirety of the report was released online on the same day. Johnson denied everything, until Wednesday night.
When he killed himself.
This is a heck of a story. Johnson's widow, Rebecca, is going to try to take her husband's seat in the upcoming special election; she's already made the claim that Johnson's death was a "high-tech lynching." The young woman who accused Johnson of assaulting her has gone into hiding.
In other news, I saw The Last Jedi yesterday morning, and I'm going to talk about it in the comments, and heck yes there are going to be spoilers.
Bullitt County borders Jefferson to the south. It's notable, from my POV, mostly for being home to a number of bourbon distilleries and the Bernheim Forest, for Pet Shop Comics being there and #1C living there for a few years, and for being the site of a hell of a lot of personal misery in summer 2014. In November 2016, the voters of Bullitt County, by a narrow margin, elected a man named Dan Johnson to the Kentucky House of Representatives for the 49th District.
Johnson ... well, this fucking guy. He made a lot of interesting claims - that he operated a morgue at the WTC site, he was the White House chaplain to three administrations, even cured disease and resurrected a dead woman. He was pretty awfully racist, too.
Johnson ran a church on Bardstown Road, over around Fern Creek - the Heart of Fire church. He called himself the Bishop of Bullitt County and the Pope of Kentucky. He had something called a "Gun Choir" at his church - check 'em out singing here. Johnson's the guy in the middle of the back row wearing a cap with "Pope" embroidered on it and holding a goddamn AK-47.
The Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting ran a lengthy investigation on Johnson, The Pope's Long Con. The audio segments of the report began running on Monday the 18th; the entirety of the report was released online on the same day. Johnson denied everything, until Wednesday night.
When he killed himself.
This is a heck of a story. Johnson's widow, Rebecca, is going to try to take her husband's seat in the upcoming special election; she's already made the claim that Johnson's death was a "high-tech lynching." The young woman who accused Johnson of assaulting her has gone into hiding.
In other news, I saw The Last Jedi yesterday morning, and I'm going to talk about it in the comments, and heck yes there are going to be spoilers.
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