KEYNOTE: A political menu starving for campaign-finance reform; a congressman's and his daughter's diet of deceit and greed--serving anorexic politics in Kentucky's governor's race: a primary victory by forking over the most massive helpings of money--the key ingredient. Not fit to consume or eat: how Kentuckians were seeing the politics served to them. (Dishing out negative advertising sickened voters.)
SYNOPSIS
The two gubernatorial candidates were not leveling with the people. Kentuckians wanted an honest candidate--to help them feel closer to a process that didn't connect with their lives.
US Republican Congressman Carey Lucas was a top-ranking member of the Armed Services committee, who in 13 years had NEVER been opposed for his seat in congress. However, the Kentucky gubernatorial race revealed his LACK OF INTELLECT, his LYING about his military record and college education; and his involvement in the HOUSE BANK SCANDAL (where he wrote a plethora of bad checks). He INSISTED President George Herbert Walker Bush URGED him to run (and his campaign tactics mirror those of President George W. Bush's campaign).
The congressman's run against the millionaire Kentucky horse breeder (from West Virginia) disgusted voters. He dished out negative advertising throughout the race. Forking over the most massive helpings of money--the key ingredient (like George W. Bush)--is what enabled a Carey Lucas and Hayward Thomas primary victory.
The congressman THOUGHT he could be Kentucky's next governor and also pocket $700-thousand in PAC money (given expressly for his political run): more money than ANY other congressman in HISTORY. And the congressman's daughter, a Kentucky-governor's-daughter wannabee,--weaves a trail of deceit and greed wherever she ventures (like her father).
Along the way Myra Lucas, the congressman's daughter, tears at a lifelong rich friendship between best friends, Royce VanArsdale and Leila Nichols: whose mother's are lifelong best friends--PERFECTIONISTS. Each have an anorexic child (and lifelong secrets). Protagonist Royce VanArsdale is an athletics educator at the University of Kentucky--where basketball is king (and he slave to an obsessive anorexic lifestyle).
However, Lexington, Kentucky (The Horse Capital of the World) molds the protagonist into its world of thoroughbreds...and thoroughbred characters, including his and the congressman's daughter's relationship with the family of America's greatest female skier EVER.
Though Royce VanArsdale harbors a secret eating disorder--no one close to him could have EVER imagined uncovered secrets about his San Jose, California family...
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Sing for our supper and you'll get breakfast
Songbirds always eat...if their voice is sweet to hear....Sing for your luncheon and you'll get dinner...Dine with wine of choice...If romance is in our voice...I heard from a wise canary...Trillin' makes a fellow willin'...So little swallow, swallow now...Now is the time to sing for your supper and you'll get breakfast...Songbirds are not dumb: they don't buy a crumb of bread, it is said...So sing and you'll be fed...
(MAMAS & PAPAS: from California Dreamin')
"ICE MAN," Stan Winthrop yelled at his buddy, "they're shooting at us...The Iraquis are shooting at us..." The image of his little girl's face flashed through his mind.
The weather was horrible when the Persian Gulf War beckoned Stan to play a major role. The young captain was not accustomed to flying under such deplorable conditions. Since the atmospheric conditions were so poor...weak visibility...initially, it was around 35-thousand feet before they rose above the clouds.
Since the sky was so overcast, Kuwait was nowhere in sight. Stan was unable to see anything. A SAM short of 200 feet blew-up in front of him. Young Stan Winthrop was approaching within four-and-a-half miles of his target. Three of his buddies were flying with him. This was their first mission (Stan's third sortie).
And it was back to the USS Nassau. Their bombs were dropped...(Chapter 16)