Commissioner Fires Nonmerit Employees

{Frankfort, Kentucky}...Newly sworn in Agriculture Commissioner Jamie Comer has fired 16 nonmerit employees, including Stephanie Sandmann, the girlfriend of his predecessor, Richie Farmer. Sandmann was hired as a special assistant by Farmer a week before the November election in which he was running for lieutenant governor on the Republican ticket with Senate President David Williams. Sandmann was let go from her $60,000-a-year job on Tuesday, the day after Comer was sworn in.