- {Frankfort, Kentucky}...Friday, Governor Steve Beshear called lawmakers back for a special session to begin Monday. Lawmakers adjourned this year's legislative session late Thursday night without completing work on a transportation budget and a prescription drug abuse bill. Beshear blamed Republican Senate President David Williams for thwarting passage of the bills. Williams pointed his finger back at Beshear, claiming he was playing politics. Williams had insisted Thursday that the nearly 400-page state road construction plan should be signed before the Senate would pass the accompanying transportation budget that would have provided funding for the projects. Beshear said during a press conference Friday morning that Williams had inserted $288 million worth of construction projects for his rural district into the road plan. Beshear charged that Williams feared those projects would be vetoed. Kentucky's last three budgets were adopted in special legislative sessions.
