Tag Archives: Jerry Abramson

Yarmuth ♥ Abramson PART 2: Hot Coals’ Revenge!

December 8, 2010 – 3:35 pm

Yesterday, on the floor of the United States House of Representatives, Louisville’s 3rd District Congressman, Democrat John Yarmuth, delivered a speech praising the service of Louisville’s current (and outgoing) mayor, Jerry Abramson. Fortunately for you, dear readers, we have 20 years’ worth of LEO back issues at our fingertips to gauge whether or not Yarmuth [...]

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Abramson is Bellarmine bound

October 20, 2010 – 12:28 pm

We were beginning to wonder about Mayor Jerry Abramson’s future once he leaves office Jan. 2. given that there’s a 10-month between then and the 2011 gubernatorial election. We figured he’d just settle on campaigning for lieutenant governor on Gov. Steve Beshear’s ticket until next year. Not for our “Mayor for Life”, who we’ve learned [...]

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Questions From The Cutting Room Floor: We Love You, Jerry

February 3, 2010 – 4:44 pm

In this week’s issue of LEO Weekly, you can read Editor Sarah Kelley’s fantastic interview with Metro Louisville’s outgoing “Mayor for Life” Jerry Abramson. However, because I and fellow staff writer Phillip M. Bailey lack the journalistic integrity of Ms. Kelley, we’ve decided to offer the following “alternative” questions that were left out of the [...]

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Abramson + Obama = ♥

January 19, 2010 – 5:52 pm

For the eleventy-billionth time, Jerry Abramson is meeting with Barack Obama in Washington D.C. to talk about things like job creation, fat kids and potentially why Harry Reid is so full of racism. Under the purview of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, here’s a glimpse at Jerry’s three-day itinerary. Part of the White House discussion [...]

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Abramson Goes Ivy League

November 18, 2009 – 12:49 pm

Starting today, and for two days only, Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson will be educating some of America’s newly elected mayors on the finer points of municipal management at Harvard Community & Technical College University. Because of his renown as “Mayor for Life” in these parts, Abramson — himself a former president of the U.S. Conference [...]

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Rate The Mayor!

November 13, 2009 – 3:38 pm

Okay, so here’s a website called CityMayors.com that allows you to rank the performance of Mayor Jerry Abramson — whom apparently has a second constituency in Pittsburgh — and features a very hilarious assortment of comments that is only funny if you are not Jerry Abramson. According to the site, our mayor ranks 4.09 out [...]

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Abramson Presser Attempts Spin, Misses Mark

October 27, 2009 – 5:51 pm

Mayor Jerry Abramson held a press conference earlier this afternoon to make official the resignation of now-ex-Louisville Metro Animal Services director Gilles Meloche, offering the embattled doctor’s head on a silver platter to attendant news media and essentially telling them “That’s it, that’s all there is for dinner,” and pledging full support behind the services’ [...]

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Bridge On The River Duh

August 17, 2009 – 6:04 pm

Kentucky BFF’s Jerry Abramson and Steve Beshear (Louisville mayor and Kentucky state governor, respectively) have released their picks for a five-person board of negotiators charged with the task of destroying downtown Louisville for the next several decades and taking southern Indiana along for the ride. I’m talking, of course, about the Ohio River Bridges Project, [...]

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Abramson: “Who is this kid?”

June 30, 2009 – 2:56 pm

That was but one of the responses our Mayor had for Jefferson County GOP chairman Brad Cummings, the latter of whom had delivered earlier today a factual, coherent and scathing indictment of the Abramson administration’s (largely) post-merger shenanigans at the party’s headquarters on Muhammad Ali Boulevard. A somewhat nervous — though no less self-assured — [...]

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If It Walks Like A Duck…

March 26, 2009 – 5:34 pm

If you’re unaware of the firestorm regarding the City’s reaction to the intrepid reporting of LEO’s Phillip M. Bailey and his on-going investigation into the bureaucratically toxic Metro Housing Carnival of Mystery & Misappropriation, well… what in the hell is wrong with you? (For the uninitiated, Bailey’s original story can be found here; his follow-up [...]

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