Ned Pillersdorf
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Received a call from the national media today about the decision to send all federal court cases in the Pikeville division to either London or Ashland. This will effectively move all federal litigation in Pike , Floyd, Martin, Letcher, Knott , and Johnson counties out of the region
According to local media when Pikeville Mayor Jimmy Carter contacted our senior Senator who always boasted about his influence- he got no response about the legitimate concerns of losing our local federal court.
Historically the Pikeville federal court has been on life support- during the 1990's the Floyd County Bar Association passed a resolution I sponsored that President Bush should appoint a federal district judge who would hold court on a full time basis in Pikeville.
It never really happened.
The political reality is that the six counties impacted have almost unanimous Republican public officials including Hal Rogers. Shows how much influence they have- or more accurately how little influence they have.
The bottom line is that Appalachia gets shafted again- that is exactly what I told the national media reporter today.
Thanks Mitch and the Republicans for selling us out again.
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