My vision for Kentucky is a Commonwealth where there is so much economic opportunity, and our quality of life is so high, that people who are born here can stay here, and people who aren't fortunate enough to be born in Kentucky, can look forward to locating here.

Republican Senate President David L. Fletcher capitalized on these issues promising to "clean up the mess" in Frankfort and won the election by a vote of 596284 to 487159. Despite last minute attempts at a compromise as the session drew to a close the Assembly passed neither the tax reform package nor a state budget.

Though the investigation was ended by an agreement between Fletcher and Stumbo in late 2006 it continued to overshadow Fletcher's re-election bid in 2007. Ernest Lee "Ernie" Fletcher (born November 12 1952) is a Republican politician from the U. S.